Sentences with phrase «using global navigation»

This drilling technique depends on accurate positioning using global navigation systems.

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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.

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.

Such a system provides a new option for spacecraft to autonomously determine their locations outside the currently used Earth - based global navigation networks because pulsars are accessible in virtually every conceivable fight regime, from low - Earth to deepest space.

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.

«Due to global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic has become feasible along with the shipment of oil through the Northwest Passage, the water body between Canada and the Arctic that used to be frozen throughout the year, but has now become open for navigation in the summer,» noted Boufadel, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who specializes in the impact of oil spills on coastal regions and, more generally, on oil behavior in diverse environments.

Most navigation systems in cars and portable electronics use the space - based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), which includes the U.S. system GPS, Russian system GLONASS, European system Galileo, and Chinese system Beidou.

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.

His working group has now determined the position of the active center in an enzyme using a novel method which is reminiscent in principle of the global positioning system (GPS) with which automobile navigation systems work.

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.

The brain uses two kinds of cues for navigation — local (based on the immediate environment) and global cues (based on distant objects or unique identifiers of a space).

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.

The navigation system uses a global - positioning satellite to «make driving less stressful,» Mercedes says, by «removing the anxiety of getting lost or worse, having to stop and ask for directions.»

The A4 finally receives Audi's sensationally useful finger - swipe touchpad knob, as well as a set of new global user - defined preset buttons that can be used to access favorite functions, be it phoning a spouse, setting a specific navigation destination, or tuning in a particular satellite radio station on the optional 19 - speaker, 755 - watt Bang & Olufsen audio system.

In addition to global conventions and rules governing the use of water resources, hundreds of regional treaties and agreements exist between and among nations, covering a wide range of issues, from border security and navigation to hydro - electric power and water quality and water quantity.