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    technologies can enhance the usefulness of the GPS positioning information. It provides critical positioning capabilities to military, civil, and commercial...
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  • A positioning system is a system for determining the position of an object in space. Positioning system technologies exist ranging from interplanetary...
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    terminal-assisted. Positioning accuracy can be increased at the expense of wireless infrastructure equipment and installations. Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS) is...
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  • long. Such systems include assisted GPS, urban positioning services through hotspot databases, and indoor positioning systems. Wi-Fi positioning takes advantage...
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    navigation satellite system (GNSS). As of 2024[update], four global systems are operational: the United States's Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia's...
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    Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters...
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    A high performance positioning system (HPPS) is a type of positioning system consisting of a piece of electromechanics equipment (e.g. an assembly of...
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    The error analysis for the Global Positioning System is important for understanding how GPS works, and for knowing what magnitude of error should be expected...
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  • and/or direction measurements, and subsequent position triangulation. Underwater acoustic positioning systems are commonly used in a wide variety of underwater...
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    high-precision positioning system so European political and military authorities do not have to rely on the US GPS, or the Russian GLONASS systems, which could...
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    can be referred to both global positioning and outdoor positioning, using for example GPS, and to indoor positioning, for all the situations where satellite...
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    Real-time kinematic positioning (RTK) is the application of surveying to correct for common errors in current satellite navigation (GNSS) systems. It uses measurements...
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    long baseline (LBL) acoustic positioning system is one of three broad classes of underwater acoustic positioning systems that are used to track underwater...
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    Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPSs) supplement and enhance the positional data available from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). A DGPS...
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    Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Asia-Oceania regions, with a focus on Japan. The goal of QZSS is to provide highly precise and stable positioning services...
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    (Micro-Technology for Positioning, Navigation and Timing) program to design Timing & Inertial Measurement Unit (TIMU) chips that do absolute position tracking on...
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    3GPP defined LPP or LTE positioning protocol for LTE networks. User Plane Protocol Defined by the OMA to support positioning protocols in packet switched...
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  • helps build this sort of connection. Positioning is one of the most powerful marketing concepts. Originally, positioning focused on the product and with Al...
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    equipment that uses satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). A satnav device can determine the...
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  • A probe positioning system is a tool for the positioning of a (hand-held) measuring device, such as an ultrasound transducer in a fixed, predetermined...
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    short baseline (SBL) acoustic positioning system is one of three broad classes of underwater acoustic positioning systems that are used to track underwater...
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    indoor positioning. Most smartphones combine Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS and GLONASS, with Wi-Fi positioning systems. Hybrid...
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  • ms. Problems playing this file? See media help. The Traffic Service Position System (TSPS) was developed by Bell Labs in Columbus, Ohio to replace traditional...
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  • Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning method that calculates very precise positions, with errors as...
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  • for super short base line) is a method of underwater acoustic positioning. A USBL system consists of a transceiver, which is mounted on a pole under a...
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    datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326), the default datum used for the Global Positioning System, and the International Terrestrial...
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    Doppler. The new world geodetic system was called WGS 84. It is the reference system used by the Global Positioning System. It is geocentric and globally...
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  • Planet. Indoor positioning is another application for optical motion capture systems. Robotics researchers often use motion capture systems when developing...
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    Jing; Han, Fei (1 January 2020). "Positioning performance analysis on combined GPS/BDS precise point positioning". Geodesy and Geodynamics. 11 (1): 78–83...
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    was shut down in 1997 in favour of the Global Positioning System. Taking a "fix" in any navigation system requires the determination of two measurements...
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