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    The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated...
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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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    satellite system (GNSS). As of 2024[update], four global systems are operational: the United States's Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia's Global Navigation...
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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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    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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    Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) Galileo positioning system Global Positioning System GLONASS BeiDou NavIC NTRIP Boquet, Guillem; Vilajosana...
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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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    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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  • 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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    satellite-based augmentation system developed by the Japanese government to enhance the United States-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Asia-Oceania...
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    Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPSs) supplement and enhance the positional data available from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). A...
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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...
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    The United States Space Force's Global Positioning Systems Directorate is a unit of Space Systems Command located at Los Angeles AFB, California. To develop...
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    Geofence (category Global Positioning System)
    a cellular telephone located with the movable object; a GPS (global positioning system) receiver located with the movable object, the GPS receiver being...
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  • the global positioning system is important for understanding how GPS works, and for knowing what magnitude errors should be expected. The Global Positioning...
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    world geodetic system was called WGS 84. It is the reference system used by the Global Positioning System. It is geocentric and globally consistent within...
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    identifier) used for the Global Positioning System, and the several realizations of the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (such as ITRF2020...
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    terrain of Mars by means of a downward-facing Lidar altimeter. Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers can also determine altitude by trilateration with...
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    positioning system (GPS), the ellipsoid and datum WGS 84 it uses has supplanted most others in many applications. The WGS 84 is intended for global use...
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    and 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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    that binds the coordinate system to actual locations on the Earth. The ECEF that is used for the Global Positioning System (GPS) is the geocentric WGS...
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  • Interagency GPS Executive Board (category Global Positioning System)
    needs and desires of various governmental agencies into formal Global Positioning System Planning. GPS was administered by the Department of Defense, but...
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  • provides an alternative to Global Positioning System (GPS) and is the second navigational system in operation with global coverage and of comparable precision...
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  • Positioning System: Signals, Measurements, and Performance, 2nd, Ganga-Jamuna Press, 2006. The interface specification of NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM...
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  • the operator of the Global Positioning System and the military's array of communications spacecraft. The Global Positioning System is operated by the 2nd...
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    of immediate value in the local area. Data can include object Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, non-directional beacon, weather station telemetry...
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  • The GBU-37 (Guided Bomb Unit-37) Global Positioning System Aided Munition (GAM) was developed for use with the B-2 Bomber. The bomb can penetrate hardened...
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    an outdoor recreational activity in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. GPS is the Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigation system. GPS may also refer to: GPS navigation device...
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