GPS is a space-based technology for everyday use. GPS stands for Global Positioning System and we'd be lost without it (quite literally). Originally called Navstar GPS, this space-based technology ...

In 1978, the US Department of Defence started launching 24 high orbit satellites around the earth providing them with detailed positioning co-ordinates (latitude and longitude), altitude and speed ...

Few everyday technologies have had the kind of revolutionary impact that the Global Positioning System (GPS ... The user segment pertains to the use of GPS in various sectors and applications.

"If you can shape [tech] policies to give general guidance in a broad view rather than really specific direction, that tends to hold up," Brian Weeden said.

Join SimActive and Trimble Applanix for a live webinar on June 12 to explore how advanced positioning systems impact mapping ...