GPS (global positioning system)

GPS (global positioning system)

Of or referring to a space based navigation system that provides location, time, and weather conditions on earth.

Industry: Telecommunications

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Sonar

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

A system using transmitted and reflected underwater sound waves to detect and locate submerged objects or measure the distance to the floor of a body of water. This technology is used in Garmin ...

Trivial Baselines are those baselines formed when more than two GPS receivers are used simultaneously in the field to perform static GPS surveys. For example, when 3 receivers at points A, B, C are ...

Transducer

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

A device, much like a microphone, that converts input energy of one form into output energy of another. Fishfinders separate and enhance the information received from a transducer to show underwater ...

Triangulation

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

A method of determining the location of an unknown point, as in GPS navigation, by using the laws of plane trigonometry.

Track up orientation

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

Fixes the GPS receiver’s map display so the current track heading is at the top of the screen.

Stop-and-go positioning

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

This is a GPS Surveying "high productivity" technique which is used to determine centimetre accuracy baselines to static points, using site observation times of the order of 1 minute. Only carrier ...

Troposphere

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

The lowest region of the atmosphere between the surface of the earth and the tropopause, characterised by decreasing temperature with increasing altitude. GPS signals travel through the troposphere ...