HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2003--Thales has launched a new generation of decimetric Differential GPS (DGPS) positioning systems, offering the oil, gas and hydrographic industries new levels of ...

How many millimeters has the sea level risen? How fast are the continents moving? In order to answer these questions, measurements are being made around the clock at more than 1,700 globally ...

“OH DEAR! OH DEAR! I SHALL BE LATE!” That’s what the White Rabbit said in the opening chapter of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland just before checking the time on its pocket watch.

Initial Operational Capability for the Ultra High-Accuracy Reference System has been declared by the U.S. Air Force. Even when GPS is being completely jammed, UHARS provides extremely accurate ...

Niantic today launched its Lightship Visual Positioning System at its first developer summit. The system aims to form an underlying 3D map of the world so that AR devices can share the same frame of ...

Cosmic muons could provide a practical alternative to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) in places where radio signals cannot reach. That is the conclusion of the muPS collaboration, which ...

Use of the global positioning system is all around us. From the satnav in your car to quadcopters hovering above a point, there are hundreds of ways we use the Global Positioning System every day.

Download this article in PDF format. For automated driving, which ranges all the way up to the autonomous-driving level, it’s essential that information about the current position of the vehicle is ...