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Telecommunications

Of or pertaining to the transmission of information over a distance, and the technology used to achieve this communication.

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binary shift-key (BSK) modulation

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

BSK is a modulation technique by which a binary message, such the Navigation Message or the PRN codes (consisting of 0's and 1's), is imprinted on the carrier wave. Unlike ...

circular error probable (CEP)

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

A statistical measure of the horizontal precision. The CEP value is defined as a circle's radius, when centred at the true position, encloses 50% of the data points in a ...

coarse acquisition (C/A)

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

A spread spectrum direct sequence code that is used primarily by commercial GPS receivers to determine the pseudo-range to a transmitting GPS satellite, modulated on the L1 ...

coarse/acquisition code (C/A code)

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

The standard positioning signal the GPS satellite transmits to the civilian user. It contains the information the GPS receiver uses to fix its position and time, and is accurate ...

code division multiple access (CDMA)

Telecommunications; GPS (global positioning system)

A method whereby many radios use the same frequency, but each one has a unique code. GPS uses CDMA techniques with codes for their unique cross-correlation properties.