Sentences with phrase «global positioning satellite»

Participants were made to wear ankle tags and carry a portable tracking unit, which allowed their movements to be tracked via global positioning satellite technology.

This collar uses global positioning satellite technology to help locate your pet if they get lost.

Another advanced technology system, Uconnect, will offer drivers a hands - free text - reply feature and a global positioning satellite to provide time - saving routes.

Navigation: A full - color, five - inch touchscreen is available with global positioning satellite (GPS) navigation, providing Ram ProMaster City customers the ability to chart timesaving routes to their destinations

Pretend you know how to do this: Take a digital camera and wire it to a global positioning satellite receiver, and, for good measure, stick on a digital compass.

And instead of dropping anchor — which is impossible in such depths — the ship hovered over the spot with the help of the global positioning satellite system, which identified the latitude and longitude.

Tracking a pre-planned route from launch to target using Global Positioning Satellites and an internal navigation system, the missile is designed to strike with a 1,000 - pound penetrating warhead.

Using intelligence gathering data and global positioning satellites, and smart bombs, we were able to win a war in record time.

The $ 4 billion allotted for security and space will allow for closer cooperation with the European Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. 571).

Occasionally eruptions on the sun are so powerful that they can cripple Earth's electrical grids and global positioning satellites.

Cannon's work with GPS goes back to 1984 when she was still a graduate student and only about six global positioning satellites were in orbit, compared to two dozen today.

General relativity is a little bit more out there but even things like the GPS system — global positioning satellites — rely on it for their accuracy.

Global positioning satellites (GPS); remote sensing for water, minerals, and crop and land management; weather satellites, arms treaty verifications; high - temperature, light - weight materials; revolutionary medical procedures and equipment; pagers, beepers, and television and internet to remote areas of the world; geographic information systems (GIS) and algorithms used to handle huge, complex data sets; physiologic monitoring and miniaturization; atmospheric and ecological monitoring; and insight into our planet's geological history and future — the list goes on and on.

This gadget utilizes Global Positioning satellites and beacons attached to the equipment in your gym to track your location in the gym and remind you when you've been neglecting certain tiny, little nuisance bodyparts such as your entire lower body.

He closes by tracking the fifty year journey of developing global position satellites and GPS technology as one example of how great innovations ~ big new ideas can develop over decades; they do nt have to just happen and become commonplace.

The site's GPS (Global Positioning Satellites) section describes that technology's use, and the Secrets of Ancient Navigators section is extremely fascinating.

Its areas of responsibility include transportation negotiations with foreign countries (including aviation, maritime, global position satellite matters, and trade), international transportation safety and security, Global Satellite issues, aviation licensing and regulatory matters involving international transportation, and international aviation antitrust matters.

- a navigation system linked to the government's string of Global Positioning Satellites.

The system's antenna receives positioning information from a network of 24 global positioning satellites.

The antenna can utilize up to 12 satellites from a network of 24 global positioning satellites.

Not exact matches

He had previously held business development and corporate strategy positions at Intelsat, the world's largest provider of satellite communications services, at 360networks a global communications provider, and COMSAT Corporation.

Meanwhile the National Space Society estimates the industry's size could eventually swell to as high as $ 1 trillion, with the proliferation of satellites, global positioning systems and other technology already giving consumers a taste of space's vast reaches.

Mr. Lipscomb brings extensive corporate management experience to RRE, with senior level positions held at Accenture, Showtime Networks, and WorldSpace — the first global satellite direct radio broadcaster (leading the joint venture strategy that created XM Satellite Radio).

And satellites can go haywire, upsetting prosaic pursuits like watching television, or more crucially disturbing the global positioning system (GPS).

One is the possibility that the new power line will interfere with the links to the Global Positioning System satellites they need.

After playing an integral role in the fledgling US space programme, DARPA gave us the satellite - based global positioning system (GPS), stealth aircraft and the precursor to the internet.

Solar storms can cause major disruption to human civilization by crippling large electrical power grids, global positioning systems (GPS), satellite operations and communications.

The Global Positioning System, usually called GPS, is the Earth's only fully - functional satellite navigation system.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

That is good enough for Global Positioning System satellites, which use onboard cesium clocks to triangulate precise positions on Earth.

The country's global Beidou satellite navigation and positioning system will be finished by 2020, comprising five geosynchronous satellites (in 24 - hour orbits that keep them always over the same spot) and 30 non-geo satellites.

That said, you may have come across the Global Positioning System (GPS) and its use in monitoring volcanoes, the mapping of global deforestation with satellite imagery, or the creation of a geographic information system (GIS) to model demographics, and so the list goGlobal Positioning System (GPS) and its use in monitoring volcanoes, the mapping of global deforestation with satellite imagery, or the creation of a geographic information system (GIS) to model demographics, and so the list goglobal deforestation with satellite imagery, or the creation of a geographic information system (GIS) to model demographics, and so the list goes on.

He and co-author Shelley Kenner base much of their concern on a new model, and doubts about the earlier study, which tracked ground movement in the New Madrid area using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

But today many computer - based systems, including Global Positioning System satellites, use uncorrected atomic time.

Using data from Global Positioning System (GPS) stations and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images collected during successive satellite fly - overs, ASU researchers were able to measure changes in surface elevation during a time period spanning the main Gorkha event, and several major aftershocks, with centimeter accuracy.

The data comes from space - weather sensors developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory on board the nation's Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

With the proliferation of satellite - based communications that enable global positioning systems (GPS) as well as certain Internet, television and phone services in the past few decades, «we're more reliant on space technology now than we ever were before,» says APL scientist and principal AMPERE investigator Brian Anderson.

High levels of charged particles could damage global positioning and other types of satellites that orbit in the Van Allen zone.

US Global Positioning System satellites and commercial telecommunications satellites already face jamming from low - tech weapons on the ground.

ADS — B — first conceived in the early 1990s by the FAA and a variety of government agencies and businesses that build and / or rely heavily on airplanes, including NASA and delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS)-- relies on the proactive communication between global positioning system (GPS) satellites and transponders placed on board aircraft to inform pilots, other aircraft and air traffic controllers about an aircraft's location, identity, speed and altitude.

Map databases and Global Positioning System satellites can pinpoint your location — and direct you to the nearest McDonalds.

The Global Positioning System (which locates our position on Earth to within 50 feet or less) would malfunction, because the clock on the satellite does not tick at the same speed as Earth clocks.

The laptop works out the ship's position by picking up signals from Global Positioning System satellites.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) consists of 24 operating satellites and several spares.

AAAS first developed a project on geospatial technologies and human rights in 2005 with an aim to document human rights violations using satellite imagery, GPS (Global Positioning System), and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technologies.

Chinese government also plans to use the CZ - 5 to accelerate construction of Beidou, a global satellite navigation system pitched as China's answer to the United States» Global Positioning System, oglobal satellite navigation system pitched as China's answer to the United States» Global Positioning System, oGlobal Positioning System, or GPS.

This leads to the fundamental requirement for a truly global positioning system that at least four satellites be visible at any time from any location on the earth.

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Michel and colleagues took advantage of the wealth of geophysical data that have been collected in this region, using a catalog of earthquakes that have occurred in the area and models of the fault slip rate inferred from surface deformation given by Global Positioning System (GPS) and satellite observations of ground changes.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering proposals to share L band spectrum in or near bands currently used by weather satellites, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and aircraft navigation systems.