One of the more interesting facets of GPS is that, at least from the receiver’s point-of-view, it’s a fairly passive system. All of the information beamed down from the satellites is out in the ether, ...

Historically, GPS receiver designers have relied on a combination of simulation and drive testing to characterize a receiver's performance in difficult environments. While GPS signal simulation ...

WASHINGTON — More than 8,000 deployed military GPS receivers experienced compatibility problems with the most recent upgrade to the timing and navigation constellation’s ground control segment, but ...

Getting lost while driving is close to a a lost art. With GPS in your car's navigation system, in the portable navigation device on your dashboard, or in your smartphone, it's easy to pull up a map ...

The usual way of adding GPS capabilities to a project is grabbing an off-the-shelf GPS module, plugging it into a UART, and reading the stream of NMEA sentences coming out of a serial port. Depending ...

It’s still exceptionally difficult to qualify GNSS receivers for airborne use so there are only a few existing suppliers. It’s been a while since we reviewed the status of certified airborne receivers ...

There’s currently a lot of hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone (I can call it that now, right?) but the device that I’d really like to see coming out of Cupertino is not a iPod/cellphone hybrid, it’s an ...

Trimble now offers heavy and highway contractors the widest selection of location and precise GPS solutions on the market with the introduction of seven new GPS Receivers and Smart GPS Antennas. The ...

Trimble now offers heavy and highway contractors the widest selection of location and precise GPS solutions on the market with the introduction of seven new GPS Receivers and Smart GPS Antennas. The ...

ADS-B transponder problems on some aircraft stem from a bad update to a large class of aviation receivers, according to a blog on the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation website. The Air ...

LightSquared wants the U.S. FCC to set standards for commercial GPS devices to prevent what LightSquared calls interference with other wireless services. In its latest salvo against the GPS industry, ...

Drop-in Defense Advanced GPS Receiver replacement features M-Code protection and full-color graphical user interface NavGuide™ is the GPS receiver designed with the user in mind. (Credit: BAE Systems) ...