- 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.
The Global Orbiting Navigational Satellite System; the Russian counterpart to the United States’ GPS system.
Industry:Telecommunications
A pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines forming square zones on a map used as a reference for establishing points. Grid examples are UTM, MGRS, and Maidenhead.
Industry:Telecommunications
The direction in which a vehicle is moving. For air and sea operations, this may differ from actual Course Over Ground (COG) due to winds, currents, etc.
Industry:Telecommunications
A term used when an orbiting GPS satellite is suitable for use. "State" is also used to refer to satellite health.
Industry:Telecommunications
The first time a GPS receiver orients itself to its current location and collects almanack data. After initialization has occurred, the receiver remembers its location and acquires a position more quickly because it knows which satellites to look for.
Industry:Telecommunications
To display and navigate a route from end to beginning for purposes of returning to the route's starting point.
Industry:Telecommunications
A region of the earth's atmosphere where ionisation caused by incoming solar radiation affects the transmission of GPS radio waves. It extends from a height of 50 kilometres (30 miles) to 400 kilometres (250 miles) above the surface.
Industry:Telecommunications
A portion of a route consisting of a starting (from) waypoint and a destination (to) waypoint. A route that is comprised of waypoints A, B, C, and D would contain three legs. The route legs would be from A to B, from B to C, and from C to D.
Industry:Telecommunications
A soft, silvery, highly reactive metallic element that is used in batteries where weight and cold weather conditions are concerns.
Industry:Telecommunications
The distance east or west of the prime meridian (measured in degrees). The prime meridian runs from the north to south pole through Greenwich, England.
Industry:Telecommunications
