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

Add a new term

Contributors in GPS (global positioning system)

Become a Contributors

GPS (global positioning system)

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 6,076 feet).

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.

The message transmitted by each GPS satellite containing system time, clock correction parameters, ionospheric delay model parameters, and the satellite’s ephemeris data and health. The information ...

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 adjustment with only one ...

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, and is influenced ...

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 specified value (implying ...