GPS - How it Works
Made available to the civilian population in the 1980s, the Global Positioning System (GPS) was placed in orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense, originally intended for military applications. As the word “triangulation” suggests, the GPS System establishes the location of a receiver in 2D space (latitude and longitude) by tracking the signal of at […]
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by JP
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