High-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) orbit and clock products is essential for high-stakes applications. A recent study introduces a method that combines regional ground station ...

Many portable electronic devices, like smartphones and tablets, now include a built-in GPS receiver with a variety of mapping apps that can be used to detect the location or provide directions to ...

Modern cars surround drivers with digital certainty, yet one of the most basic numbers on the dashboard is quietly biased in your favor. The speedometer is designed to err on the side of reading high, ...

Swift Navigation has landed $50 million from a group of investors. The company's Skylark Precision Location software improves GPS accuracy. Global positioning systems, or GPS, are great for helping to ...

I drive a SsangYong Musso, and the speedometer consistently reads a few miles per hour above my satnav. I have always believed that the satnav would be the most accurate and reliable, but I recently ...

Thanks to researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, unmanned aerial vehicles can soon deliver packages to a specific spot on a customer’s back porch.

Strong GPS signals are required to navigate with electronic maps while driving in the city. For driverless cars, this is especially important. Now, researchers have figured out how to make GPS ...

Do you remember the free-standing car navigation devices that were popular for a while, such as those made by Garmin and Magellan? Few people use them anymore because to find our way when driving, ...

Scientists have explored how quantum squeezing can improve measurement precision in complex quantum systems, with potential applications in quantum sensing, imaging, and radar technologies. These ...