A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

Can GPS support a greener, more sustainable planet? The answer is an emphatic “yes,” and it is already doing so today. GPS has become a fundamental technology across nearly every sector of the U.S.

The omnipresent system that people use for navigation and positioning is increasingly vulnerable. Can it be improved?

Two stories of how our reliance on GPS becomes problematic in regions experiencing war. In Ukraine, the power grid's use of GPS becomes a liability. And in the Middle East today, GPS "spoofing" causes ...

Global Positioning System jamming is on the rise, highlighting risks to the U.S. economy from financial systems to civilian ...

Two recent court decisions — one in New York and the other in Wisconsin — highlight the continuing struggles that courts around the country are having over law enforcement’s use of GPS devices to ...

With the rapid development of GPS (Global Positioning System) techniques, GPS gets wider application in many fields. GPS has features such as high precision, global coverage, convenience, high quality ...

We, of the PNT universe, have been hearing a rather continual message of doom from the media regarding the fragility of the GPS (or GNSS) signals. In a way, they are right. The received GPS signal is ...

A Global Positioning System device is able to constantly track its position using the GPS satellite-based navigation system. When included in a wearable fitness tracker, the GPS chip is able to use ...

Illustrated here are the two basic types of satellite-based earthmoving systems. The motor grader is equipped with a machine-control system, and the worker is carrying a Topcon Pocket 3D ...