There’s a whole world of GPS-alikes out there. Let’s take a look. The Global Positioning System (GPS) that we all know and love flew its first satellite in the distant past of 1978 ...

The Geospatial Research Facility has a survey grade GPS unit with RTK. The Emlid Reach RS2 is available to MTU students, faculty, and staff conducting geospatial data collection and fieldwork. This ...

Dubbed Etak, the system was simultaneously far ahead of its time and doomed to failure by the constellation of global positioning satellites being assembled overhead as it was being rolled out.

Solutions to signal interference are well-known but have been prohibited or delayed.

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.

The Federal Communications Commission announced Wednesday it is investigating Amazon, and other retailers, over its alleged marketing and sales of wireless signal jammers, which are illegal for U ...

Terrestrial positioning systems are position location system that uses land-based transmitters or reference points to act as reference points for the calculation of position information. Some of the ...

Billionaire Jeff Bezos is plotting to build a rival to the US military’s global positioning system (GPS) amid a dangerous ...

A global positioning system (GPS) receiver onboard a satellite achieves synchronization errors of 20 to 50 nanoseconds, resulting in positioning errors greater than 15 meters. Conversely ...

In a significant leap forward for vehicle navigation, researchers have developed an advanced system that integrates Global Navigation Satellite ...

Technology investment by Lindsay is helping irrigators to be more efficient with FieldNET, Dave Bergmeier writes.

Multi-axis positioning systems make use of linear, rotary and goniometric stages, slides and drives in various combinations to create standard and custom positioning systems. Linear stages are driven ...