- 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 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
The art or technique of making maps or charts. Many GPS receivers have detailed mapping—or cartography—capabilities.
Industry:Telecommunications
A constant difference in the time reading between two clocks, normally used to indicate a difference between two time zones.
Industry:Telecommunications
The power-on sequence where the GPS receiver downloads almanac data before establishing a position fix.
Industry:Telecommunications
Replaced Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the world standard for time in 1986. UTC uses atomic clock measurements to add or omit leap seconds each year to compensate for changes in the rotation of the earth.
Industry:Telecommunications
A set of numbers that describes your location on or above the earth. Coordinates are typically based on latitude/longitude lines of reference or a global/regional grid projection (e.g., UTM, MGRS, Maidenhead).
Industry:Telecommunications
The direction from the beginning landmark of a course to its destination (measured in degrees, radians, or mils), or the direction from a route waypoint to the next waypoint in the route segment.
Industry:Telecommunications
A global navigation system based on 24 or more satellites orbiting the earth at an altitude of 12,000 statue miles and providing very precise, worldwide positioning and navigation information 24 hours a day, in any weather. Also called the NAVSTAR system. For more information, see About GPS.
Industry:Telecommunications
A geometric surface, all of whose plane sections are either ellipses or circles.
Industry:Telecommunications
The number of repetitions per unit time of a complete waveform, as of a radio wave (see L1 and L2 frequencies in this glossary).
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