Trimble Navigation, which had started out making Loran receivers, was looking for its next marine project when HP decided to cancel its GPS project ... with the seven breakthroughs needed for the ...

One of the more interesting facets of GPS is that, at least from the receiver’s point-of-view, it’s a fairly passive system. All of the information beamed down from the satellites is out in ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed ...

Block diagrams close block diagramA diagram of a system represented by blocks connected by lines. are clear, simple diagrams showing all of the input, process and output elements that make up the ...