A safety net of balloon-mounted sensors listening for satellites and cell towers could save lives if an airplane's GPS ...

What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sure—but let’s play along. Imagine the bustling streets ...

Advanced Navigation and MBDA are creating a GPS-free drone navigation system using NILEQ’s neuromorphic sensors for terrain ...

appear to calculate their geographical position by drawing data from different distances and angles between magnetic fields ...

Used correctly, a GPS – or global positioning system – can be a handy tool for any hiker. Here, we examine how to use GPS for ...

Positioning with GPS can be performed by either of two ways: point positioning or relative positioning. GPS point positioning employs one GPS receiver that measures the code pseudoranges to determine ...

Positioning with GPS can be performed in either of two ways: point (absolute) positioning or relative positioning. Classical GPS point positioning employs one GPS receiver that uses the measured code ...

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS ...

However, Wi-Fi only works well in dense urban areas, and it serves to augment cellular positioning rather than be the sole locating method. GPS offers the greatest accuracy (15-75 feet), but ...

GPS uses radio waves beamed from satellites to triangulate a position, but these signals do not work in underground areas. Having the technology to accurately pinpoint the location of vehicles ...