Researchers who are working to fix global positioning system (GPS) errors have devised software to take a more accurate measurement of altitude -- particularly in mountainous areas. The software is ...

A GPS-lidar fusion technique implements a novel method for efficiently modeling lidar-based position error covariance based on features in the point cloud. The fusion ...

Flat-Earth claims keep popping up, but the real answer lives in geodesy - the science of measuring Earth. In this video I walk through the data and methods that prove Earth is an oblate spheroid: from ...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new, more computationally efficient way to process data from the Global Positioning System (GPS), to enhance location accuracy ...

Nearly a year ago, Google debuted GPS measurements in Android. “Since then, we’ve made a lot of progress,” Steve Malkos, Google technical program manager, told GPS World. Frank van Diggelen and ...

Abstract A workshop on the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements in weather and climate with emphasis on water vapor determination, was organized by the National Environmental Research ...

GPS technology has broadly advanced science and society’s ability to pinpoint precise information, from driving directions to tracking ground motions during earthquakes. A new technique stands to ...

University of California- Riverside researchers have developed a new and more efficient way for Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to process data so that they can enhance location accuracy (quite ...

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Dr. Gladys West is inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame during a ceremony in her honor at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. in 2018. West was an unheralded but vital ...