The Global Area Reference System (GARS) is a standardized geospatial reference system developed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for...
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scheme. There are other geographic naming systems of this alphanumeric kind: Global Area Reference System (GARS) has been adopted by the National...
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developed for global military operations, replaced by the current Global Area Reference System (GARS). Open Location Code or "Plus Codes", developed by Google...
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of 17,000 feet over GJPJ3716. List of geodesic-geocoding systems Global Area Reference System (GARS) Maximum elevation figure correlated to each GEOREF...
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A spatial reference system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a framework used to precisely measure locations on the surface of Earth as coordinates...
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Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS)...
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Geodetic datum (redirect from Geodetic reference system)
geodetic system (also: geodetic reference datum, geodetic reference system, or geodetic reference frame, or terrestrial reference frame) is a global datum...
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta...
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the database management systems developed by the Oracle Corporation, the System Global Area (SGA) forms the part of the system memory (RAM) shared by all...
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Satellite navigation (redirect from Global Navigation Satellite System)
satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global coverage is termed global navigation...
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Address geocoding (category Geographic information systems)
World Geographic Reference System (GEOREF), developed for global military operations, replaced by the current Global Area Reference System (GARS). Open Location...
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The Irish grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used for paper mapping in Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of...
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Linear referencing, also called linear reference system or linear referencing system (LRS), is a method of spatial referencing over linear or curvilinear...
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coordinate system – also called a projected coordinate reference system, planar coordinate system, or grid reference system – is a type of spatial reference system...
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Force systems agreed remarkably well for the NAD, ED and TD areas, they were consolidated and became WGS 60. Improvements to the global system included...
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The global language system is the "ingenious pattern of connections between language groups". Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan developed this theory in...
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Differential GPS (redirect from Differential Global Positioning System)
Differential Global Positioning Systems (DGPSs) supplement and enhance the positional data available from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). A...
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equal area cells that both partition the entire Earth at multiple levels of granularity and provide a global spatial reference frame. The system must also...
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GSM (redirect from Global system for mobile communications)
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks...
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approximate the geoid, or modeling a region with a best-fit reference ellipsoid. For surveys of small areas, a planar (flat) model of Earth's surface suffices...
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Real-time kinematic positioning (redirect from Virtual reference station)
providing up to centimetre-level accuracy (see DGPS). With reference to GPS in particular, the system is commonly referred to as carrier-phase enhancement,...
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GSM-R (redirect from Global System for Mobile Communication – Railway)
GSM-R, Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway or GSM-Railway is an international wireless communications standard for railway communication...
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The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) was established in 1992 as an outcome of the Second World Climate Conference, to ensure that the observations...
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Ordnance Survey National Grid (redirect from British national grid reference system)
Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude...
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Vertical datum (redirect from Vertical reference system)
horizontal datum, such as NOAA's planned gravimetric and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-based Datum of 2022 set to be released that year by...
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The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) was built by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) on the basis of a 10-Year Implementation Plan...
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Mercator/Universal Polar Stereographic (UTM/UPS) coordinate system, which is a global (or universal) system of grid-based maps. The transverse Mercator projection...
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The local-area augmentation system (LAAS) is an all-weather aircraft landing system based on real-time differential correction of the GPS signal. Local...
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Geoid (redirect from Reference geoid)
exerts greater gravitational force than the surrounding areas. The geoid in turn serves as a reference coordinate surface for various vertical coordinates...
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The error analysis for the Global Positioning System is important for understanding how GPS works, and for knowing what magnitude of error should be expected...
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