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Seen & Heard: Lighthouses no more, GPS mitigates natural disasters

August 7, 2023

“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry.


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NASA-JPL prototype of POINTER base units on a first responder vehicle. The magneto-quasistatic fields they generate can be detected through walls, where legacy indoor positioning technologies fail. (Image: Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Positioning through walls: DHS and NASA partner on indoor positioning and location solution

March 28, 2023

A joint development program by the DHS and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has produced a unique indoor positioning and location solution, POINTER.


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How GPS was affected by the solar eclipse

September 15, 2017

I had my special ISO-certified glasses ready. Living in Oregon, I wasn’t about to miss the once-in-a-lifetime chance […]


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