• Satellite navigation solution for the receiver's position (geopositioning) involves an algorithm. In essence, a GNSS receiver measures the transmitting...
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    A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global...
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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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    A satellite navigation (satnav) device or GPS device is a device that uses satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar global navigation...
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    term used in satellite navigation and geomatics engineering to specify the error propagation as a mathematical effect of navigation satellite geometry on...
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    The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS; Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; pinyin: běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng) is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned...
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    Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) created by the European Union through the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the European...
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    Time to first fix (category Satellite navigation)
    time required for a GPS navigation device to acquire satellite signals and navigation data, and calculate a position solution (called a fix). The TTFF...
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    military satellite is an artificial satellite used for a military purpose. The most common missions are intelligence gathering, navigation and military...
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    World Geodetic System (category Navigation)
    Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard used in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS. The current version, WGS 84, defines an Earth-centered...
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  • Augmentation of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is a method of improving the navigation system's attributes, such as precision, reliability...
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  • Automotive navigation system Marine navigation systems using sonar Satellite navigation system Global Positioning System, a group of satellites and computers...
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    Galileo and GLONASS constellations for navigation and geodesy in MEO, the Iridium and Globalstar satellite telephony services and Orbcomm messaging...
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  • technology and navigation services. A chosen solution would be the most cost-effective for the civil aviation authority, as opposed to a solution being established...
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    Michibiki (みちびき, "guidance"), is a four-satellite regional satellite navigation system and a satellite-based augmentation system developed by the Japanese government...
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    needed] Satellite navigation systems send several signals that are used to decode the satellite's position, distance between the user satellite, and the...
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  • global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, scanners, total stations, laser rangefinders, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), inertial navigation systems...
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  • European satellite navigation system Galileo. The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) seeks to gather innovative ideas and solutions for commercial...
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    CoMaps (category Satellite navigation software)
    transparency, and community collaboration, aiming to provide a navigation solution that is not only easy to use, but also respects user data and fosters...
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  • key role in the development of the guidance, navigation, and control of the U.S. Navy's Transit satellite system at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories...
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    Wide Area Augmentation System (category Satellite-based augmentation systems)
    system a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS). Europe and Asia are developing their own SBASs: the Indian GPS aided GEO augmented navigation (GAGAN)...
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    supplement and enhance the positional data available from global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs). A DGPS can increase accuracy of positional data...
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  • that approves the use of Iridium for Future Air Navigation System (FANS) data links, enabling satellite data links with air-traffic control for aircraft...
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  • Receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (category Air navigation)
    collected and integrated by the receiver units employed in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). The integrity of received signals and resulting correctness...
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    located. Weather satellites are also placed in this orbit for real-time monitoring and data collection, as are navigation satellites in order to provide...
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    Satellites. BeiDou Navigation Satellite System Signal In Space. China Satellite Navigation Office. December 2013. Access 2 May 2021. O3b satellites Satellite...
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    An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers)...
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    application of surveying to correct for common errors in current satellite navigation (GNSS) systems. It uses measurements of the phase of the signal's...
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    conventional navigation systems, like dead reckoning, to eliminate the incorrect position solution. The first of these hyperbolic navigation systems was...
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    Hyperbolic navigation is a class of radio navigation systems in which a navigation receiver instrument is used to determine location based on the difference...
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