Global Positioning System

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

The judicial system in Guam comprises both local and federal components.

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 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 China, ERAs are open only to members of the local online public procurement bidding system maintained by local public procurement centres.

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.

Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Amorphous Computer, 1999 Nagpal.

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

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

In the meantime, the relations between local councils and the traditional chiefdom system are evolving satisfactorily.

But Sharif succeeded in undermining the Bhutto Musharraf plan, positioning himself as Pakistan s genuine champion of democracy.

The field offices also helped local civil society organizations to participate in development policy debates occurring within a system of local development councils strengthened under the peace agreements.

A system of local officers is in charge of collecting revenue at both the seaport and airport.

The weak capacities of local implementing partners and lack of a banking system also constrain effective implementation.

(b) National and local implementation of the Hyogo Framework is the essential goal for the Strategy system.

The plan focuses on agency responsibilities, possible settlement sites, the pre positioning of relief items and security arrangements.

It also promotes the participation of actors from the system for full assistance and promotes youth activism in the establishment and implementation of Local Operational Plans, provides training for the local network of the System to Guarantee Rights, and provides a permanent technical advisory program.

But here, Brian captured a unique view by positioning himself underneath the boat when they threw the waste overboard.

Common characteristics include the positioning of the pelvic fins (if present), below or in front of the pectoral fins.

Fetal position (British English also foetal) is the positioning of the body of a prenatal fetus as it develops.

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

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.

It officially belongs to both, but is governed by neither, and functions under a decentralized system of local government.

Further efforts are also needed to harmonize the distribution of responsibilities between local councils and the traditional chiefdom system.

Although that system provided for a local government, the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act adopted by the United States favoured the preservation of a colonial system on the island.

Further analysis has subsequently been undertaken, and UNOPS has developed a set of strategic business development objectives for market positioning.

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

b. Training workshops or field trips to United Nations project sites, in cooperation with the local United Nations system partners, for local journalists so as to promote better understanding of United Nations issues and organization of training sessions for local United Nations librarians

If it means a number of fixed or static targets over a large area, such as armour in defensive positions, these could in theory be attacked by a number of GPS (global positioning system) guided weapons released from a single aircraft in a single pass.

It is considered necessary to take account of local knowledge and link it to the modern information and communication system.

An effective national judicial system and a firm political commitment at both the local and the central level are necessary.

Thus, we should also accept the need for much more conservative fiscal positioning than was thought necessary even three years ago.