Users of the Global Positioning System in Spain and in part of the Southern Indian Ocean may experience short periods of high horizontal dilution of precision, or HDOP, and positional dilution of precision, or PDOP, where HDOP will be greater than a factor of 6 (HDOP >6) at various times from 151530Z – 160330Z APR 2015 due to satellite maintenance (NANU 2015-024).

Predictions are based on a “Best Four” analysis to illustrate the worst case scenario and are provided for situational awareness only. You may view illustrations of the events on the Coast Guard Navigation Center’s website.

Please report any outages through the NAVCEN “Report a GPS Problem” page.

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