- Industry: Telecommunications
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Garmin designs, develops, manufactures and markets a diverse family of hand-held, portable and fixed-mount GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communications and information products for the general aviation and consumer markets.
Information transmitted by each satellite on the orbits and state (health) of every satellite in the GPS constellation. almanack data allows the GPS receiver to rapidly acquire satellites shortly after it is turned on.
Industry:Telecommunications
An instrument for determining elevation, especially an aneroid barometer used in aircraft that senses pressure changes accompanying changes in altitude. The Garmin® eTrex® Vista and Summit models contain a basic GPS with a built-in barometric altimeter.
Industry:Telecommunications
The principal feature of analogue signals is that they are continuous. In contrast, digital signals consist of values measured at discrete intervals.
Industry:Telecommunications
Encryption of the P-code to protect the P-signals from being "spoofed" through the transmission of false GPS signals by an adversary.
Industry:Telecommunications
A very precise clock that operates using the elements cesium or rubidium. A cesium clock has an error of one second per million years. GPS satellites contain multiple cesium and rubidium clocks.
Industry:Telecommunications
This is a proprietary feature of Garmin GPS receivers. A Garmin unit displays the "AutoLocate" status when it is looking for and collecting data from satellites that were visible at its last known or initialized position (almanac data), but it has not collected enough data to calculate a position fix.
Industry:Telecommunications
The horizontal direction from one point on the earth to another, measured clockwise in degrees (0-360) from a north or south reference line. An azimuth is also called a bearing.
Industry:Telecommunications
Garmin mapping units come with permanently built-in basemaps, which typically include coverage of oceans, rivers, and lakes; principal cities, smaller cities, and towns; interstates, highways, and local thoroughfares; and railroads, airports, and political boundaries. Basemaps are available in a variety of global coverage areas, depending on the user’s needs.
Industry:Telecommunications
Stationary transmitter that emits signals in all directions (also called a non-directional beacon). In DGPS, the beacon transmitter also broadcasts pseudorange correction data to nearby GPS receivers for greater accuracy.
Industry:Telecommunications
The compass direction from a position to a destination, measured to the nearest degree (also call an azimuth). In a GPS receiver, bearing usually refers to the direction to a waypoint.
Industry:Telecommunications
