Sentences with phrase «the global positioning system»

A self - driving vehicle needs sensors to see where it's going and a highly accurate global positioning system to know its exact location — and that's where startups like Quanergy (a laser sensor maker) and Swift Navigation (a GPS chip maker) come in.

But these squads were equipped with handheld computers into which enemy positions could be typed, as well as global positioning systems to track their own locations.

While California has a love affair with regulations, most other states prohibit watching a television screen while driving (with the exception of global positioning systems and mapping).

Chrome's feature uses the World Geodetic System (WGS 84) navigation system, which is the reference coordinate system that the Global Positioning System (GPS) uses.

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.

Driverless cars are capable of navigating through sensors, artificial intelligence, and global positioning systems.

Instead of a passive «wait and see» attitude, perhaps it is time to look more aggressively for alternative export markets and recalibrate the Canadian exporters» Global Positioning System towards other directions.

An expert in geomatics engineering, Dr. Cannon's research has been on the forefront of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) since 1984 in both industrial and academic environments, and she has commercialized technology to over 200 agencies worldwide.

The Qualcomm CDMA Technologies segment develops and supplies integrated circuits and system software based on technologies for the use in voice and data communications, networking, application processing, multimedia, and global positioning system products.

Magellan SporTrak Pro global positioning system ($ 299.99)(www.magellangps.com); 21.

Researchers looked at data from 549 healthy adolescents between the ages of 12 and 16 in Baltimore, Md., and Seattle, Wash., who wore accelerometer and global positioning system trackers during waking hours at home, at school, in their neighborhoods and other locations.

NEW YORK, NY — The New York State Thruway Authority Board of Directors today approved the purchase of an enhanced Global Positioning System (GPS) for its fleet of 235 heavy - duty plows for the 2017 snow and ice season.

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

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.

Four papers in this issue — by Sato et al. on page 1395 (1), Simons et al. on page 1421 (2), Ide et al. on page 1426 (3), and Vigny et al. on page 1417 (4)-- report on both of these magnitude 9 (M9) earthquakes, illustrating the use of networks of Global Positioning System (GPS) detectors to reveal how the Earth's surface deformed during and after the events.

Combining Global Positioning System (GPS) and acoustic data, we detected very large sea - floor movements associated with this event directly above the focal region.

In addition, the dozen or so Global Positioning System control locations on the islands needed to be recalibrated after having been thrown for a loop by the magnitude 9 earthquake.

From hikers navigating with handheld locators to pilots landing in zero - visibility conditions, the Global Positioning System now serves more than 30 million users.

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

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.

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.

GPS: We would be quite literally lost without today's global positioning system (GPS).

In between, general relativity has made its mark on the Global Positioning System, while explaining anomalous planetary orbits and the whirling death dances of the remnants of giant stars.

Using the Global Positioning System measurements taken from last year's trip, the crew moves into position to confirm the traps» location by sonar.

By combining that with modern tools such as the Global Positioning System and remote sensing, a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of the ice can be gained as it changes.

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

Numerous systems are in use across the world including the widely known United States» Global Positioning System (GPS), the Russian Federation's Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and Europe's Galileo.

The 25 April 2015 moment magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Gorkha, Nepal was the first large continental megathrust rupture to have occurred beneath a high - rate (5 - hertz) Global Positioning System (GPS) network.

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

Last year Ohio State University geophysicist Michael Bevis and his team were studying Global Positioning System (GPS) data from a reservoir lake in Chile when they spotted something «really strange»: an oscillation of the lake bed.

The REMUS 100 vehicle (for Remote Environmental Monitoring Underwater System) is equipped with Global Positioning System technology, side - scan sonar and a video camera.

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 satellites.

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

Assistive technologies for scientists with disabilities are an extension of the technologies that assist all scientists, like a biologist's microscope or a geographer's global positioning system.

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..

This growth suggests that the rickshaw could also play a similar emissions - cutting role elsewhere with better engine and communications technologies like Global Positioning System and cell - phones.

They outfitted the birds with global positioning system monitors and then released them from different points 10 to 30 kilometers away from the loft.

It covers a wide array of research, from the more traditional surveying and mapping to newer fields like geographical information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS).

A military transformation will have a much bigger payoff, in exactly the same way the Pentagon's research and development created the Internet, global positioning systems, the modern microchip industry, and advanced aero engines.

Small IT and telecommunication equipment (ie mobile phones, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), pocket calculators, routers, personal computers, printers, telephones).

There was no shaking, but over several weeks, Global Positioning System (GPS) stations reversed their usual direction and moved 2 to 4 mm to the southwest, as Herb Dragert of the Geological Survey of Canada in Sidney, British Columbia, and colleagues reported last year (Science, 25 May 2001, p. 1525).

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 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.

It's certainly nice to have the Global Positioning System (GPS) to direct you to within a few yards of your goal.

Coupled with soil maps and other global positioning system (GPS)- referenced data, this imagery can then be used by farmers and engineers to determine the cause of the variation and what should be done about it.

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

It uses a global positioning system (called Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast, or ADS - B) to track the movement of planes.

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.

Roughly 1,000 Global Positioning System (GPS) instruments will be installed in a gridlike pattern from the edge of the Pacific Coast to the Rocky Mountains and from Alaska to Mexico (not including Canada).

The Precision Platform Autopilot guides the aircraft by using a kinematic differential Global Positioning System developed by JPL in concert with the aircraft's inertial navigation system to enable it to fly repeat paths to an accuracy of 15 feet or less.