David Last and Sally Basker Across transportation, agriculture, industry, commerce, and finance, GPS has replaced earlier technologies, opened up innovative applications, and led to new ways of doing...
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By Tracy Cozzens Figure 1. Worldwide nuclear testing 1945–2009 (CTBTO website). Can GPS be used to detect underground nuclear explosions? A research team is developing a software program that uses G...
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By Tracy Cozzens The Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, being deformed as earthquake faults accumulate strain, and slip or slowly creep over time. Not long ago, scientists relied solely on seis...
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By Oscar Pozzobon, Chris Wullems, and Marco Detratti Modern GNSS will provide access control to the signal through spreading-code encryption and/or authentication at the navigation data level. This wi...
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By Lars Holstein The alarm operations center for the state of Bavaria receives this message from the accident location, and swiftly moves into coordinating activity, gathering and distributing real-ti...
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INNOVATION INSIGHTS with Richard Langley By David W. Affens, Roy Dreibelbis, James E. Mentall, and George Theodorakos In 1997, a Canadian government study determined that an improved search and rescue...
Read More →By Pere Molina, Ismael Colomina, Markus Troger, Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, and Carmen Aguilera A pocket tracker for elderly people and Alzheimer’s patients consists of a smartphone using GNSS, WLAN...
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