Sentences with phrase «objects using gps»

Consider geocaching, an activity (often on hiking trails) in which families hide or hunt for objects using GPS.

Not exact matches

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.
Although the ubiquitously used GPS system is accurate to within a few feet for Earth - bound users, this level of accuracy is not necessary when navigating to the far reaches of the solar system where distances between objects measure in the millions of miles.
Our brains track moving objects by applying one of the algorithms your phone's GPS uses, according to researchers at the University of Rochester.
One day soon, the vast majority of GPS devices will not be stand - alone receivers used by those of us who venture off the beaten path but integral components of everyday objects.
Inter-Vehicle Communication Autonomous cars use Differential GPS to know where on the globe they are, pulses of light through LIDAR to map nearby objects, and stereo cameras to «see» the road ahead.
The measurements for the Earth's motions come from a variety of space - based measurements including satellites, like those in the Global Positioning System (GPS), the geodetic satellites that included records from NASA's older LAGEOS satellite, and observations of distant astronomical objects using a technique known as Very Long Baseline Interferometry.
From your car's GPS to bank ATM machines, you will probably come in contact with some object that uses the Internet.
Tango is an augmented reality (AR) platform that uses qualified devices to detect their users» positions relative to places and objects around them without using GPS or other external signals.
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