Long before ships relied on GPS to determine their location – and even before radio navigation systems such as LORAN, vessels relied on a still impressively sophisticated means of determining ...

A safety net of balloon-mounted sensors listening for satellites and cell towers could save lives if an airplane's GPS ...

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This chapter describes the terrestrial radio navigation systems in use or under development at the time of this writing. Terrestrial radio navigation history is summarized in Section 1.3.1. Section ...

The laboratory is directed by Professor Dennis Akos who implemented the first Global Positioning System (GPS) software defined radio in the mid-1990s. Since the laboratory was established in 2005, the ...

Three airports in the eastern part of Finland will bring back the use of old-style radio navigation equipment to facilitate aircraft landings when incidents of GPS disruption are detected. The ...

In the USA, enormous overgrown concrete arrows can still be found, serving as relics of an early navigation system. These ...

In the USA, enormous overgrown concrete arrows once served as navigation elements. These large symbols, visible from great ...