X-Nico

unusual facts about GPS, V1: Rare Metals



American Crossroads

In November 2012, the non-profit watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed an ethics complaint with the Federal Election Commission and a corresponding letter with the FBI, alleging that Crossroads GPS failed to disclose the identities of contributors who donated $6 million specifically earmarked to fund independent expenditures for Josh Mandel's 2012 Ohio Senate race.

Archaeological field survey

Archaeologists use a variety of tools in survey, including GIS, GPS, remote sensing, geophysical survey and aerial photography.

AudioConexus

AudioConexus Inc. began as a GPS audio tour company, founded in 2006 to create audio tours utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.

Blackline GPS

Blackline GPS has now shifted its focus primarily on the industrial & commercial safety and loss prevention industries and has acquired numerous globally prominent clients including Air Liquide, Praxair, Ryder, Waste Management, Inc, Cemex, and BAE Systems.

BLU-116

The shape and size mean that the BLU-116 could be used by unmodified existing aircraft and bomb guidance units such as the GPS guided GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition and GBU-24 Paveway III laser-guided bomb.

Claire Wand Fund

the Government reluctantly accepted that the issue would be adjudicated by a High Court judge (Mr. Justice Danckwerts) who judged decisively in the GPs' favour.

DaniWeb

In January 2007, DaniWeb staff writer Davey Winder published a story that TomTom GPS devices were being released from the factory virus infected.

DARPA LAGR Program

Even though the LAGR vehicle had a WAAS GPS, its position was never determined down to the width of the vehicle, so it was hard for the systems to re-use obstacle maps of areas the robots had previously traversed since the GPS continually drifted.

Donnellan Glacier

The glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2006 after Andrea Donnellan of the Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, who was involved from the mid-1990s in research projects involving the use of GPS in studies of earth crustal deformation in Southern California and also in Antarctica.

East London NHS Foundation Trust

In May 2013 the Trust took over the Health E1 clinic in Brick Lane which had been run by nursing staff with GPs and other specialist nurses for those who couldn’t register with a practice because they had no settled address.

Equipment codes

/L RNAV capability with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), including GPS or Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) with en route and terminal capability, and with RVSM

Future Supply Chains

2010 brought in place Put to Light (PTL) sortation system for better logistics Automation followed by implementation of Vehicle tracking system (VTS) / Global Positioning System (GPS) system in the following year.

General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales

The GSE of defibrillators by GPS on Internet and car navigation systems, the mobile phones and the PDA also improves on Référencement and Digital coverage department.

General Problem Solver

General Problem Solver (GPS) was a computer program created in 1959 by Herbert A. Simon, J.C. Shaw, and Allen Newell intended to work as a universal problem solver machine.

GPS for the visually impaired

Prof. W. Balachandran is the pioneer and the head of GPS research group at Brunel University.

GPS navigation device

As with many other technological breakthroughs of the latter 20th century, the modern GPS system can reasonably be argued to be a direct outcome of the Cold War of the latter 20th century.

GPX

GPS eXchange Format, a device-independent data format used for GPS navigation devices

HAL HJT 39

CAT also features redundancy features like stand by instrumentation system, Fly-by-Wire (FBW), hands-on-throttle-and-stick HOTAS), INS along with GPS receiver, flight control computer and display processor.

Holden Hurricane

Other features included Pathfinder, an early style of GPS, which acted in conjunction with magnetic signals built into the road to guide the driver.

Jerrel Venetiaan

In kickboxing, he was the champion of two K-1 GPs and defeated talented kickboxers such as Remy Bonjasky, Bjorn Bregy, Xhavit Bajrami and Jorgen Kruth.

London Underground D78 Stock

adding an audio passenger information system guided by GPS and odometer, voiced by Emma Clarke: announcements for each station name include connecting lines, and provide warnings to "mind the gap between the train and the platform"

Magellan Navigation

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European sales and engineering centers in Nantes, France and Moscow, Russia, Magellan also produces aftermarket automotive GPS units, including the Hertz Neverlost system found in Hertz rental cars.

Mansface Hill

Google Earth and most GPS maps identify the road to the summit on the west side as "Knotty Pine Street."

MapCode

Mapcodes were developed in 2001 at TomTom by Pieter Geelen and Harold Goddijn, soon after the GPS satellite signals were opened up for civilian use.

Masternaut

Masternaut's solutions use Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to track a vehicle, employee or asset's location and transmit performance data in real time to Masternaut's data centre.

Mauck Special Vehicles

Typically, MSV's came with dual climate controls, power windows, power door locks, power brakes, power steering, heated power mirrors, cruise control, a reverse camera, and a Street Pilot GPS.

Maya Lahan

Because a GPS tracker was placed on Maya, Lucas leaves her body behind.

Modra Observatory

The upper building with the 5-metre dome has a small telescope for educational purposes and registration devices for GPS and forward scatter meteor radar of the Bologna-Lecce-Modra network (transceiver-receiver-receiver).

Navman

Established in 1986 as New Zealand-based Talon Technology, Navman (as the company became known in the 1990s) is a GPS systems company providing stand-alone GPS units, OEM GPS modules, GPS software for Palm handhelds and Pocket PCs, automotive navigation systems and navigation systems for use at sea.

Piaggio Xevo

The front shield area, besides the odometer, trip computer and tachometer, provides further space to place small items and is also equipped with a 12 volt plug to use a GPS, or recharge a mobile phone.

Plugger

Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR), a US military handheld GPS system colloquially known as the "plugger"

Professional Truck Driver Institute

It is within the technical ability of DOT to require GPS monitoring, breath analyzer engine start mechanisms, voice actuated mechanisms, DNA testing, retinal scanning devices, operator/vehicle internment, personality assessments, and individual character profiling.

Quality and Outcomes Framework

Tim Burr, head of the National Audit Office, said in 2008: "There is no doubt that a new contract was needed and there are now 4,000 more GPs than five years ago. But in return for higher pay, we have yet to see real increases in productivity."

Rubidium

These rubidium standards are often used with GPS to produce a "primary frequency standard" that has greater accuracy and is less expensive than caesium standards.

Snow Leopard Conservancy

This is done using remote camera traps, fecal DNA sampling and GPS-satellite collars to study movements and corridor analysis to find areas to target for conservation efforts.

Soko G-4 Super Galeb

:Further development of G-4M upgrade including: LCD flight screens, HOTAS, HUD, integrated mission computers, distance measuring equipment, GPS-based navigation systems, identification friend or foe, navcomm units, mission records, and VHF omni-range and instrument landing systems.

St Andrews Prize for the Environment

2004 - Conrad Feather who worked with the Nahua people of Peru allowing them to map their territory using the latest GPS, photographic, radio and video equipment.

StarMetro

In addition, StarMetro is planning wireless internet and television in buses, GPS-enabled buses with live location maps over the Internet, solar-lighted stops with live location maps, and blinking lights at stops to let drivers know of waiting passengers.

Telit

Its m2m module portfolio include products in GSM/GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, EV-DO, HSPA, LTE and CDMA products as well as short-range modules in Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Short Range RF (proprietary mesh and point-to-point networks for unlicensed frequency bands), Wireless MBus and GPS/GLONASS (Machine-to-Machine) modules.

TTFF

Time to first fix, a specification detailing the time required for a GPS receiver to acquire a position

Ubuntu Mobile

According to Canonical, it would provide an uncompromised Web 2.0 experience: Web browsing, email, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, simple software updates will be available periodically.

Underwater acoustic positioning system

GPS intelligent buoys (GIB) systems are inverted LBL devices where the transducers are replaced by floating buoys, self-positioned by GPS.

VaMP

Most current robot cars as well as commercial vehicles with driver assistance use GPS so that they know precisely where they are.

Van's Aircraft RV-12

Originally, the RV-12 was equipped with the Dynon FlightDEK-D180, the Garmin GPS 496, Garmin SL-40, Garmin GTX-327 Transponder, and the Flightcom 403 intercom.

VentureDNA

GeoRoamer Yellowstone is a mobile — integrated GPS, and audio tour guide — application for Yellowstone National Park.

Young Engineers' Satellite 2

The centres were: Samara State Aerospace University, Russia (mission analysis, GPS); University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (re-entry capsule); Hochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld, Germany (tether); University of Patras, Greece (mechanical and thermal).

Zoner Photo Studio

It focuses heavily on support (including but not limited to display, editing, and filtering) for metadata, primarily in the Exif format, including such information types as titles, authors, descriptions, keywords, audio notes, digital signatures, and GPS data.


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