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IRNSS: An Indian Version of GPS

The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, or IRNSS, is separate from the rest of the world’s GPS maps. While GPS software is relatively universal in the modern world, access to the network is not always guaranteed. During a crisis situation, GPS software may not be accessible by those who need it most. For example, there [...]

Love It Or Hate It, But You Cant Live Without GPS Today

Over the last few days I have been coming across various articles on GPS from around the world, some users just love it, some hate it! But the fact remains, GPS is today a way of life, love it or hate it but you can’t live without it. Globally it is proven, in India it [...]

How GPS Receivers Work?

So you’re running behind schedule, on your way to the mother of all important events and disaster strikes! You forget your route to the venue. What would you do? While you could ask around for directions, they’re not always most accurate and worse yet, what if there’s no one to ask? Instead, you fire up [...]

GPS Technology & Apophis

GPS – Global Positioning System, a network of 31 satellites orbiting our planet in different rotational orbits. GPS as it is known to all helps us all in plethora full of applications ranging from satellite tracking to surveying technologies. Initially it had been developed for military use only however, within a short time frame GPS [...]

Degree Confluence Project: Let’s Know More About It!

According to the modern English dictionaries, confluence basically means ‘a meeting point’, and in terms of a techie person Degree Confluence means the intersection and meeting point of an integral latitude and longitude on the surface of the world. Sounds theoretical? But what if I tell you that there exists an organization in this world [...]