Positioning system information

technologies can enhance the usefulness of the GPS positioning information. It provides critical positioning capabilities to military, civil, and commercial...

positioning system is a system for determining the position of an object in space. One of the most well-known and commonly used positioning systems is...

terminal-assisted. Positioning accuracy can be increased at the expense of wireless infrastructure equipment and installations. Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS) is...

and/or direction measurements, and subsequent position triangulation. Underwater acoustic positioning systems are commonly used in a wide variety of underwater...

Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters...

navigation satellite system (GNSS). As of 2024[update], four global systems are operational: the United States's Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia's...

The error analysis for the Global Positioning System is important for understanding how GPS works, and for knowing what magnitude of error should be expected...

long baseline (LBL) acoustic positioning system is one of three broad classes of underwater acoustic positioning systems that are used to track underwater...

short baseline (SBL) acoustic positioning system is one of three broad classes of underwater acoustic positioning systems that are used to track underwater...

the location of animals over time; positioning system, the mechanisms for the determination of geographic positions in general; internet geolocation, geolocating...

Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning method that calculates very precise positions, with errors as...

States' Global Positioning System (GPS), the European Union's Galileo, Russia's GLONASS, and China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. The Indian Regional...

A probe positioning system is a tool for the positioning of a (hand-held) measuring device, such as an ultrasound transducer in a fixed, predetermined...

Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPSs) supplement and enhance the positional data available from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). A DGPS...

(Micro-Technology for Positioning, Navigation and Timing) program to design Timing & Inertial Measurement Unit (TIMU) chips that do absolute position tracking on...

A high performance positioning system (HPPS) is a type of positioning system consisting of a piece of electromechanics equipment (e.g. an assembly of...

Magnetic positioning is an IPS (Indoor positioning system) solution that takes advantage of the magnetic field anomalies typical of indoor settings by...

indoor positioning. Most smartphones combine Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS and GLONASS, with Wi-Fi positioning systems. Hybrid...

3GPP defined LPP or LTE positioning protocol for LTE networks. User Plane Protocol Defined by the OMA to support positioning protocols in packet switched...

Planet. Indoor positioning is another application for optical motion capture systems. Robotics researchers often use motion capture systems when developing...

Doppler. The new world geodetic system was called WGS 84. It is the reference system used by the Global Positioning System. It is geocentric and globally...

datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326), the default datum used for the Global Positioning System, and the International Terrestrial...