Geocaching In adventure books and movies‚ the hero sometimes has to follow a map to find a buried treasure. Today‚ a new sort of adventure sport has become popular in which people use technology to “find” treasures. Geocaching involves global positioning satellites‚ maps‚ and participants’ sense of adventure to locate specific geographic spots. These could be situated in a local area and tracked down in “real time” or located anywhere on Earth and identified virtually. As you know‚ every point
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While the technology available to Christopher Columbus in 1492 was certainly sufficient to impress his memory firmly upon future generations‚ if he had had access to modern navigational techniques and technology‚ the organization and outcome of his voyages would have been vastly different. Methods of elucidating longitude in Columbus’s time were nonexistent‚ and those for determining latitude could be deeply flawed. Thus‚ given the defective nature of the technology Columbus employed on his voyages
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The Fundamentals of the Global Positioning System Introduction The Global Positioning System or the GPS is known for making its users reach their destination accurately without the use of paper maps. The GPS system makes the lives of their users a lot easier because of this‚ not to mention that this system is also user friendly. A lot of our new technology and devices these days are meant to make our lives easier and allow its users to become more productive and efficient‚ but are these devices
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GPS TECHNOLOGY OPTIMIZING CAR NAVIGATION BMI Paper Elvis N. Ngah Business Mathematics and Informatics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Date: August 15‚ 2006. Supervisor: Dr. Sandjai Bhulai Department of Mathematics Stochastics Section BMI Paper GPS Technology: Optimizing Car Navigation This page is intentionally left blank. 1 BMI Paper GPS Technology: Optimizing Car Navigation CONTENTS Preface ................................................................
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4.1.1 The principle of system operation 9 4.1.2 GSM 9 4.1.3 GPRS/Internet 9 4.1.4 Internet and intranet applications 10 5 System requirements 10 6 Cost estimation 11 7 References 11 8 Glossary 12 1 Introduction The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite navigation system that was developed to determine a precise location almost anywhere on Earth. The technology has since matured into further reaching applications; monitoring the movement of people and things‚ create
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Introduction For a zygote to contain a diploid complement of chromosomes‚ the gametes‚ which fuse to form this zygote must contain half the number of chromosomes. This reduction of chromosome number occurs in two distinct sequential phases of meiosis‚ termed meiosis I and meiosis II. Both divisional sequences have sub-stages such as‚ prophase (I‚ II)‚ prometaphase (I‚ II)‚ metaphase (I‚ II)‚ anaphase (I‚ II)‚ and telophase (I‚ II) that is continued by cytokinesis (I‚ II)‚ which is not part of meiosis
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CASE STUDY 1: UPS Global Operations with the DIAD IV 1.What are UPS "Smart Labels?" What role do they play in UPS operations? Answer: UPS Smart Labels is a simulated delivery tag which can be created using a PC and it has three barcodes‚ two of them are standard barcodes but the third one is a square maxi code which stores data such as the sender‚ recipient and the package size in a digital form. The role they play is to keep track of the packages‚ permits UPS to handle lots of packages‚ keeps everything
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on phones has led to great benefits‚ for example‚ location-based services and navigation for users‚ but are there negative consequences; consider a user’s privacy? How is this affected‚ positively and negatively?” GPS GPS stands for global positioning system. It was originally built by American department of defence so the troops can find out exactly where they are in the world. The system was built for military purposes but later more uses were found of this system‚ so companies starting using
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In Singapore‚ there is a research conducted that shows how effective the dispatch system is. The existing taxi dispatch system that taxi operators in Singapore use to handle current bookings was studied. This dispatch system adopts the Global Positioning System (GPS) and is based on the nearest-coordinate method: the taxi assigned for each booking is the one with the shortest‚ direct‚ straight-line distance to the customer location. However‚ the taxi assigned under this system often is not capable
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Numbers‚ and finally Electronic Data Interface (EDI) among others. Logically speaking‚ logistics would not work efficiently if not with the assistance of up to date technology known as GPS‚ which of course is an abbreviation for the “Global Positioning System.” What this system has given to logistics is essential for logistics to work properly‚ and that is providing accurate and detailed directions for the various forms of transportation to utilize. In other words; if a shipment is traveling by
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