Many investors also feel the need to balance increasingly speculative investments ( satellite positioning ) with much safer investments ( core positioning ).

Global Positioning System

The pirates off the coast of Somalia are trained fighters, often dressed in military fatigues, using speedboats equipped with satellite phones and Global Positioning System equipment.

Our fisheries regulations mandate the use of global positioning satellite equipment on fishing vessels larger than 30 gross tons and the use of duly authorized on board observers, who collect necessary information for the authorities.

Satellite global networks Communication satellites are an important part of global networks.

(vii) Recent developments in global navigation satellite systems

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

In 2005, ESCAP will organize meetings of the Regional Working Group on Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Satellite based Positioning and the Regional Working Group on Meteorological Satellite Applications and Natural Hazards Monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Emerging economies scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.

With the advent of the Global Positioning System (GPS), it became possible to measure continental drift directly.

The Department uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) in its peacekeeping missions, for their military and civilian components.

Relevance and positioning

In recognition of its unique positioning and role, UNOSAT has become part of several global initiatives of strategic importance.

As a major entrepôt in South East Asia, Singapore has been relentlessly positioning itself vis à vis the global economy.

Design, relevance and positioning

Most dhows used for arms shipment are motorized, equipped with the Global Positioning System and other sophisticated navigation and maritime instruments.

(c) Painting and positioning 3 000

This information sharing tool will also be the basis of a future virtual emergency operations centre, integrated with geographic information and global positioning systems.

In this scenario, rather than stimulating domestic demand, they would fortify their defenses, positioning themselves for a long and stormy winter for the global economy.

Satellite

The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) is actively contributing to the International Earth Rotation Service through analysis of global positioning system (GPS) and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) measurements.

Part of the confusion lies in Putin s skillful political positioning.

Space based technologies, such as meteorological and Earth observation satellites, communication satellites and satellite based positioning technologies offer the potential to contribute to improved prediction and monitoring of potential hazards, which in turn would lead to sharp reductions in losses to life and property.

(d) One workshop on integrated space technology applications, with tele health and landscape epidemiology using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) technologies

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Satellite navigation

Specific strategies for emergencies and non focus countries, and the positioning of the UNICEF WASH programme within the global poverty reduction campaign further widen the scope of the new approach.

The assistance of ICAO for the implementation of the Global Navigation Satellite System procedure at 10 airports, including training for the controllers.

Each centre offers high quality education, research and applications programmes, opportunities and hands on experience to the participants in the following four areas remote sensing and GIS satellite meteorology and global climate satellite communications and space and atmospheric sciences.

In essence, there is an imperative need to design national, regional and global policies in a coherent setting for positioning developing countries advantageously for sustained development in an increasingly globalizing world.

From 26 September to 1 October 2004, a long campaign of simultaneous observations of all the summits was carried out with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver assigned to each summit.

Through its membership in ESA, Norway is now taking part in the European development of Galileo, the next generation global satellite navigation system.

In the order of importance, the next challenges identified by respondents were differing levels of language proficiency, driving skills, radio communications and map reading skills (including use of global positioning system technology).

The Fundamental Geodynamic Observatory of the University of Latvia is a member of two space technique networks the global ILRS network and the Global Positioning System (GPS) network of the Reference Frame Sub Commission for Europe of the International Association of Geodesy.

For a country positioning itself as a leader in the global knowledge economy, neglecting investment in education was a grave error, with other countries now staking a claim to the role to which India aspired.

Other research funded by U.S. federal agencies have become widely used technologies such as laser technology, the internet, fiber optics, the Global Positioning System, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer touch screens and lithium ion batteries.

However, for others who had received national training, the familiarization training was too simple and they suggested more focus on mission specific aspects, including technology such as the global positioning system (GPS) and Lotus Notes.

Royal Wings has now moved into a new and exciting phase to meet the growth and needs of the global aviation industry by positioning itself as an international low cost chartered carrier operating out of Jordan.

The injunction What would you do, reinforced the proximity, not the empathy but the positioning.

In February 2005 the European Commission had organized an international conference to explore cooperation between space faring and non space faring countries in the development of global services such as positioning, Earth observation and access to information.

For the Unites States, the European Union, Japan, and other members of the Old West, the good news is that most of the emerging powers that are positioning themselves for a more active global role are also democracies.

In the case of Cemex (Mexico), it was the firm's rapid internationalization in the 1990s through the Spanish speaking parts of the world that gave it a global perspective, reinforced through its innovative use of technologies (e.g. global positioning) systems that were unknown in the cement industry at the time.

Epimetheus is an inner satellite of Saturn.

Desdemona ( ) is an inner satellite of Uranus.

Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul.