Sentences with phrase «global positioning system receivers»

Geocaching takes student groups through an Earth science adventure with the help of Global Positioning System receivers, and during a career panel, experts present via videoconferencing to share the use of technology in their daily work.

Now a new, wristwatch - size Global Positioning System receiver allows students to be tracked and located in minutes.

Now, a wristwatch - size Global Positioning System receiver can allow students to be tracked and located within minutes.

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Sato et al. (p. 1395, published online 19 May) describe the huge displacements from ocean bottom transponders — previously placed directly above the earthquake's hypocenter — communicating with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers aboard a ship.

The new technology, called NavCube, combines NASA's SpaceCube, a reconfigurable and fast flight computing platform, with the Navigator Global Positioning System (GPS) flight receiver.

And these days scientists have placed thousands of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers around the world that can track Earth's orientation to within a few millimeters, says geophysicist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif..

We located the first receiver by maneuvering to its coordinates with the help of a Global Positioning System unit.

Michael Steckler, a geologist at Columbia University's Lamont — Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, has been installing a network of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to monitor subsidence since 2003.

You really have to visit the site, but basically, through the use of a global - positioning - system receiver, you will find your way to places where folks have tucked away a small waterproof box.

The image is based on sophisticated modeling of the distortion of radio signals between Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and ground receivers.