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.

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.

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

The Moon is the second densest satellite in the Solar System after Io.

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.

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.

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Beyond membership in the European Union, France is also involved in many joint European projects such as Airbus, the Galileo positioning system and the Eurocorps.

At the same time Russia has consistently continued to comply with its moratorium on anti satellite system tests.

For instance, after the Andean Community decided in August 1996 to develop its own satellite communications system, it took nearly a decade before a temporary satellite was moved into the reserved orbital position.

Satellite

We have strengthened the verification system through enhanced use of satellite imagery, environmental sampling and a variety of new technologies.

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

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.

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.

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Satellite navigation

The training courses also introduce participants to new features of the system such as the Ship Security Alert system for combating terrorist and pirate attacks, personal location beacons and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal incorporation.

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

Three years previously, an electronic education system had been introduced in Myanmar with the establishment of a data broadcasting network via satellite.

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 immediate future, the satellites of the Gorizont space communication and broadcasting satellite system will be gradually replaced by new generation satellites.

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 first EU Galileo satellite intended as an alternative to America s GPS system was launched in late December with India as a full partner.

Since establishing a satellite based early warning system for cyclones, for example, his Government had been able greatly to reduce the number of victims.

Through a contract with the CCC (Canadian Commercial Corporation), MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA) was awarded the contract as the prime contractor to build RapidEye's satellite system.

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.

In 2004, the satellites of the Nadezhda series continued to operate within the space segment of the International Satellite System for Search and Rescue (COSPAS SARSAT).

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

Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite Second Generation (DVB S2) is a digital television broadcast standard that has been designed as a successor for the popular DVB S system.

(c ) To promote and coordinate a ground network, the Spaceguard System, backed up by a possible satellite network, for discovery, observation and astrometric and physical follow up.

(c) The Spaceguard Integrated System for Potentially Hazardous Objects Survey (SISYPHOS) was proposed by the Alenia Spazio company, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino.

Implementation of the system would allow tracking and control of cargo and trucks along the main roads using satellite technology and thus improve truckers' performance and costs.

Implementation of the system would allow tracking and control of cargo and trucks along the main roads using satellite technology and thus improve truckers' performance and costs.

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

Epimetheus is an inner satellite of Saturn.

Desdemona ( ) is an inner satellite of Uranus.