No, datum in this case it is not the singular form of data; it is the geodetic term for the measurement of the curvature surface of the earth with a specific center point. It is the basis for making ...

A joint American Petroleum Institute-Association of Oil Pipe Lines team is working to develop standard global positioning system coordinate submittal guidelines in an effort to reduce potential errors ...

March 12, 2006 “Mr. Bond, this jacket takes some beating! Its wearer can be tracked down in real time using the high-precision GPS (Global Positioning System) - even inside buildings.” It’s easy to ...

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan (May 1, 2013) -- Accurate indirect fires require more than just well-trained crews with the knowledge and training to effectively operate the systems.It requires accurate ...

Thanks to GPS, your car, your phone, even your watch knows exactly where you are on the planet, by listening to a satellite signal from 12,000 miles over your head. GPS is always on, you don't pay ...

Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. New cutting-edge science into how lightning affects Earth’s ...

An American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel—a U.S. military drone—was flying over Iran en route to its Afghanistan base in December when, Iranian military engineers claim, they reconfigured the drone's ...