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 navigation (redirect from Global satellite positioning system)
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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Galileo (satellite navigation) (redirect from Galileo global positioning system)
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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Assisted GNSS (redirect from Assisted global positioning system)
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 GPS (redirect from Differential Global Positioning System)
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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Altimeter (section Global Positioning System)
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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Geodetic datum (redirect from Geodetic Coordinate System)
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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GLONASS (redirect from GLObal NAvigation Satellite System)
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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Satellite navigation solution (redirect from GPS positioning)
Positioning System: Signals, Measurements, and Performance, 2nd, Ganga-Jamuna Press, 2006. The interface specification of NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM...
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United States Armed Forces (section Global Positioning System and military satellite communications)
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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Location-based game (redirect from Global Positioning System-based game)
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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