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Investigating the Impact of AI on Ethics and Spirituality
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S.-owned utility that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Source of Gender Violence: A Study of the Contemporary World
Sumedha Dey (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9196-6.ch006
Abstract
A new proverb has come across for some time now that ‘data is the new gold.' As each day passes, society is grinding under the weight of the constant adjustments that each new development demands of them. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a growing role in everyday life. In the course of everyday interactions with the larger community, human society is sort of forced to follow the figurative GPS line. We are now automated by sheer machinery that decides for us what kind and how much breakfast to eat, how long we spend working out in the morning, and those mandatory social media reels that we must post to inform the world about those daily workout sessions, the branded dresses worn, the infinite number of makeup items, shoes, junk bought every day to keep up with the competition. It is like a spreading disease. The pressure of artificial intelligence is such that humans are conditioned to give up thinking on their own.
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Exploring Tourism Cluster in the Peripheral Mountain Area Based on GIS Mapping
A satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS was originally intended for military applications, but in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use. GPS works in any weather conditions, anywhere in the world, anytime in a day.
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Safeguarding of ATM
The Global Positioning System is a space-based navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
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The Future of Teaching and Learning Technologies
Global Positioning System; a satellite-based, publicly available navigation system that can determine the position of a small portable GPS receiver very accurately.
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Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development
Global Positioning System is one of the most popular tools of GIT. GPS is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world. The GPS is being used in science to provide data that has never been available before in the quantity and degree of accuracy that the GPS makes possible.
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IoT-Based Cold Chain Logistics Monitoring
The global positioning system enables to locate the latitude and longitude coordinates of the location.
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The Use of Geo-Spatial Technology in Handheld Devices for Teaching Geography in a Formal School Context
Global positioning Geo-spatial task – an activity delivered to a user depending on their GPS location in a pre-defined geo-tagged space.
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Safeguarding of ATM
The Global Positioning System is a space-based navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
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This stands for Global Positioning System. GPS was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense to allow the military to accurately determine their precise location anywhere in the world. GPS uses a collection of 24 satellites positioned in orbit to allow a person who has the proper equipment to automatically have their position triangulated to determine their location.
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Disruptive Technology Impacts on Security
Global Positioning System is a device that uses a government-controlled satellite system to provide location identification to within 9 feet (2 meters) of its earth-bound position.
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Latest Trends in Mobile Business
The global positioning system (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system. Originally intended for military applications, it was made available for civilian use in 1980s. It works round the clock, in any weather conditions, anywhere in the world. There are no subscription fees or setup charges to use GPS.
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Inside, Outside, and Off-Site: Social Constructivism in Mobile Games
An acronym that stands for Global Positioning System. It is a radio navigation system that enables the determination of exact position anywhere in the world.
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Augmented Reality in Language and STEM Education: Implications and Potentials for ELLs
Global Positioning System, a satellite-based system that provides location and navigation.
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Technology Leapfrogging for Developing Countries
A global positioning system that uses satellites, computers, and receivers. It can be used for navigation and tracking purposes, based on computer calculation of time difference between signals emitted from satellites and received by receivers.
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Location-Based Network Resource Management
Global positioning system. A satellite-based system for estimating the location of a moving object.
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Using OpenStreetMap as a Source of Religious Mapping Data in an OER Human Geography Textbook
Global positioning system, a technological tool that uses satellites and receivers to calculate the location of objects on Earth.
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The Reality of Augmented Reality in the Classroom
Global positioning system. Allows technology tools to connect to people and places based on location.
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Role of Telecommunications in Precision Agriculture
The collection of 24 satellites in low earth orbit which transmit precise time information so that receivers can precisely located themselves on the surface of the earth.
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GIS Use in Landscape Archaeology
The global positioning system (GPS) is a worldwide radio-navigation system formed from a constellation of 24 orbiting satellites (US Department of Defense) and their ground stations. GPS receivers, nowadays sufficiently reliable, easily transportable and reasonably priced, exchange radio signals with the satellites that are orbiting above the area concerned, and estimate the coordinates position whose accuracy varies of the orders of meters or even centimeters.
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An Overview of the Potential of UAV Applications to the Built Environment: A Role in Sustainable Urbanisation
Global positioning system is a device used to find out the location or co-ordinates of a point on the Earth’s surface.
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Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development
Global Positioning System is one of the most popular tools of GIT. GPS is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world. The GPS is being used in science to provide data that has never been available before in the quantity and degree of accuracy that the GPS makes possible.
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Voices from Beyond: Ephemeral Histories, Locative Media and the Volatile Interface
The global positioning system (GPS) is a worldwide satellite-based radio-navigation positioning system that was developed by the United States Department of Defense and is conveniently operated by the Air Force (Monmonier, 2002, p. 12). This worldwide MEO (medium or middle, earth orbit) satellite navigational system consists of a constellation of 24 satellites, which orbit the earth twice every 24 hours (Monmonier, 2002, p. 13-14; Brain & Harris, 2006, p.1). A GPS receiver acquires positionality using two pieces of information: 1) the location of at least three satellites; and 2) the distance between its position on the ground and each of those satellites (Brain & Holmes, 2006, p. 2). This operation is based on the three-dimensional triangulation of intersecting circles (Monmonier 2002, p. 12, 174, 181), and each circle expresses a range of locations equidistant from one of the satellites. It is the point of intersection shared by the circles that situates the location of a receiver.
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Assistive Technologies for People with Dementia
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
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Context-Aware Urban Exploration: A Paradigm for Non-Directed Exploration in Mobile Computing
Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigation system providing exact longitude and latitude information to users with the receiving device.
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Information Places: Navigating Interfaces between Physical and Digital Space
Global Positioning System a constellation of twenty-four satellites that make it possible for people with ground receivers (satnav) to pinpoint their geographic location.
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Navigation Becomes Travel Scouting: The Augmented Spaces of Car Navigation Systems
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 Navstar satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS satellite launches started in 1978, and second-generation satellites were launched beginning in 1989. The system became fully operational in 1995, with a signal for military users and a less-accurate signal for civilians.
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Distributed Trust Using Blockchain for Efficient Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Global positioning system. It is a network of orbiting satellites that send precise details of their position in space back to earth.
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Use of Smart Farming Techniques to Mitigate Water Scarcity
Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based system that gives geolocation and time data to a GPS receiver anyplace on or close to the Earth where there is an uninterrupted light of sight to at least four GPS satellites.
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Physical Health Promotion through Modern Technologies: Challenges to Concerns
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information anywhere on or near the Earth.
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Exploring Tourism Cluster in the Peripheral Mountain Area Based on GIS Mapping
A satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS was originally intended for military applications, but in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use. GPS works in any weather conditions, anywhere in the world, anytime in a day.
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Dimensions of Mobile Phone Behaviors in Environmental Communication
In full Global Positioning System, a space-based radio-navigation system that broadcasts highly accurate navigation pulses containing time and location information to users on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
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Anywhere, Anytime Learning Using Highly Mobile Devices
Global positioning system. It consists of a receiver that uses three or more GPS satellites to calculate its location.
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Deep Learning Applications in Agriculture: The Role of Deep Learning in Smart Agriculture
A global positioning system is a satellite navigation system used to determine the ground position, which is the geographical location, of an object.
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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: New Frontiers in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
GPS, or Global Positioning System, is a satellite-based navigation system that enables precise location tracking and positioning on Earth. It uses a network of satellites to provide real-time coordinates, allowing users to determine their exact geographical position and navigate accurately.
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Fault Severity Sensing for Intelligent Remote Diagnosis in Electrical Induction Machines: An Application for Wind Turbine Monitoring
Global positioning system. A space-based radio-positioning and time-transfer system. GPS satellites transmit signals to proper equipment on the ground. These signals provide accurate position, velocity, and time (PVT) information to an unlimited number of users on ground, sea, air, and space.
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