GPS/Galileo Project: Advancing vehicle tracking and navigation
JAMES BOND, a well-known fictional secret agent, uses a gadget that looks like a pen to track the movements of terrorists by placing the pen in their car. He then tracks them on a small hand-held tracking device and finds out that they are heading...
OUR VIEW - Cellular Based GPS Error Correction System
The Micro-tracking System in development at the Physics Department, University of the West Indies, is aimed at providing an effective vehicle and asset tracking system, which will cover the entire island...
PROFILE - GPS Group
THE GLOBAL Positioning Systems (GPS) Group was launched at the Physics Department in 1999. Dr. Joseph Skobla is the group's supervisor; he is also senior lecturer and head of the Department of Physics at the University.
IN THE NEWS - Galileo satellite launch
THE GALILEO satellite radio navigation system is a new and monumental initiative of the European Community institutions and the European space agency. Europe has finally decided that it cannot afford not to become involved...
Scientific bookshelf
THE GLOBAL Positioning Systems group uses a number of print and electronic media to garner the most current news in the field. Three such magazines are GPS WORLD, Geospatial Solutions and Geo Intelligence.
DID YOU KNOW - Global Navigation Satellite Systems
GPS is one of two Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), with a third currently under development. The two active GNSS systems are Global Positioning System (GPS), which is operated by the United States military..
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