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Of or pertaining to the transmission of information over a distance, and the technology used to achieve this communication.
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nautical mile
Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)
A unit of length used in sea and air navigation, based on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle, especially an international and U.S. unit equal to 1,852 meters (about ...
navigation
Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)
The act of determining the course or heading of movement. This movement could be for a plane, ship, automobile, person on foot, or any other similar means.
navigation message
Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)
The message transmitted by each GPS satellite containing system time, clock correction parameters, ionospheric delay model parameters, and the satellite’s ephemeris data and ...
network adjustment
Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)
A form of least squares solution in which the observed baseline vectors are treated as "observations" in a secondary adjustment. It may be a minimally constrained network ...
north up orientation
Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)
Fixes the GPS receiver’s map display so north is always fixed at the top of the screen.
order of survey
Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)
In an analogous manner to "Class of Survey", Order of Survey is a means of categorising the quality, or precision, of a static survey. However, it relates to the external quality, ...
outage
Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)
Defined as a loss of Availability, due to either there not being enough satellites visible to calculate a position, or the value of the DOP indicator is greater than some ...
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