The project that NAL, SGM and Tschudi are working on will deploy and test the systems on commercial ships. The tests will use ...

Every 19 years, the Global Positioning System resets a measure of time built into its program. The latest rollover is Saturday and NPR's Scott Simon asks cybersecurity expert Frank Cilluffo about it.

Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro has stated that Russia intensified its electronic warfare systems near the Estonian ...

Galileo, a European rival to military global positioning systems operated by the United States and Russia, will be able to locate objects or people to within 16.4 ft. (5 m).

Swift Navigation has landed a major cash support from a group of investors supporting the company's precise location ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a technology that can provide location inputs to a GIS system, to be added to other inputs such as satellite imagery and topographic maps.

A China-only regional system, it was superseded by BeiDou-2 which began launches in 2007 which began the march towards more global coverage. 2015 marked the start of BeiDou-3 deployment, with the ...

To learn more about how GPS calculations are done, check out “How Global Positioning Systems Work” by Ron White and Tim Downs. You’ll find some useful and informative diagrams, too.

One of the fundamental technologies of modern gadgets is the Global Positioning System (GPS). Using signals from satellites orbiting the earth, a GPS receiver can pin down its location with remarka… ...