The Global Positioning System (GPS ... For the average user on the street, the new systems coming online won’t be particularly noticable. It’s likely that smartphone chipsets will pack ...

Ever wonder how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works? This extraordinarily complex system is actually based on some simple concepts. Find out what they are in this Shockwave game.

Beer, Michael, and Sunru Yong. "TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 082-185, April 2008.

Older maps have distortions compared to reality. (Surveying was hard. Heck, even the vectorized USGS map in my pre-smartphone GPS receiver has obvious near-misses). What would be most fun would be ...

Counterfeit signals sent to planes’ GPS systems ‘present a direct safety threat’ and have increased since Russia invaded ...

BAE Systems is a global defence, aerospace and security company employing around 88,200 people worldwide. Its wide-ranging products and services cover air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced ...

(No wonder it's been so quickly replaced by the satellite-dependent Global Positioning System, or GPS!) But the basic principles behind celestial navigation are fairly straightforward. Here are a ...

What would happen if GPS - the Global Positioning System - stopped working? For a start, we would all have to engage our brains and pay attention to the world around us when getting from A to B.

A study has introduced an advanced method for visual-inertial navigation, utilizing a single Ultra-Wideband (UWB) anchor with ...