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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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the Japanese government to enhance the United States-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Asia-Oceania regions, with a focus on Japan. The...
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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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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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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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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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Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326), the default datum used for the Global Positioning System, and the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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with Min Kao, and chairman emeritus of Garmin, makers of popular Global Positioning System devices. Gary Burrell was born in 1937. He earned his undergraduate...
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