accurate positioning
1accurate positioning — tikslusis padėties nustatymas statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. accurate positioning vok. Feinpositionierung, f rus. прецизионное позиционирование, n pranc. positionnement de précision, m …
2Positioning system — A positioning system is a mechanism for determining the location of an object in space. Technologies for this task exist ranging from worldwide coverage with meter accuracy to workspace coverage with sub millimetre accuracy. Interplanetary… …
3Global Positioning System — GPS redirects here. For other uses, see GPS (disambiguation). Geodesy Fundamentals …
4Dynamic positioning — Offshore Support Vessel Toisa Perseus with, in the background, the fifth generation deepwater drillship Discoverer Enterprise, over the Thunder Horse Oil Field. Both are equipped with DP systems. Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer controlled… …
5Global Positioning System — Glob al Po*si tion*ing Sys tem n. (gl[=o] b l p[ o]*z[i^]sh [u^]n*[i^]ng s[i^]s t[e^]m) A worldwide system of electronic navigation in which a vessel, aircraft or missile determines its latitude and longitude by measuring the transmission time… …
6Introduction to the Global Positioning System — The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). The GPS uses a constellation of between 24 and 32 Medium Earth Orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, that enable GPS… …
7global positioning system — A satellite based radio positioning, navigation, and time transfer system operated by the U.S. Department of Defense. The space segment of the system consists of a constellation of twenty four satellites in six orbits inclined at 55° to the… …
8NAVSTAR Global Positioning System — The global positioning system (GPS) is based on a constellation of twenty four satellites at 12,625 miles (20,200 km) above the earth in six orbits. Each of these satellites completes one orbit of the earth in 11 h and 58 min (i.e., two orbits in …
9Global Positioning System — noun a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on Earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver • Syn: ↑GPS •… …
10global positioning system — A satellite constellation that provides highly accurate position, velocity, and time navigation information to users. Also called GPS …
