The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

Now all but the smallest, most basic yachts have electric lighting, radio, and navigation aids such as Global Positioning Systems.

* GPS ( Global Positioning System ) becomes very popular especially in the tracking of items or people, and the use in cars ( see Automotive navigation systems ).

Without an extra Global navigation satellite system, receiver tracking is difficult, but not impossible, as the position of a mobile unit can be determined using a Doppler shift calculation from the satellite.

Examples of satellite constellations include the Global Positioning System ( GPS ), Galileo and GLONASS constellations for navigation and geodesy, the Iridium and Globalstar satellite telephony services, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation and RapidEye for remote sensing, the Orbcomm messaging service, Russian elliptic orbit Molniya and Tundra constellations, the large-scale Teledesic and Skybridge broadband constellation proposals of the 1990s, and the proposed LEO global backhaul constellation named COMMStellation ™.

Advances in navigational aids which give accurate information on position, in particular satellite navigation using the Global Positioning System, has made simple dead reckoning by humans obsolete for most purposes ; however, inertial navigation systems, which provide very accurate directional information, use dead reckoning and are very widely applied.

The TRANSIT system was made obsolete by the Global Positioning System, and ceased navigation service in 1996.

Although GPS ( Global Positioning System ) technology is reliable, offshore yachtsmen use celestial navigation as either a primary navigational tool or as a backup.

To obtain wind data, they can be tracked by radar, radio direction finding, or navigation systems ( such as the satellite-based Global Positioning System, GPS ).

Global Positioning System ( GPS ) navigation satellites transmit electronic ephemeris data consisting of health and exact location data that GPS receivers then use ( together with the signal's elapsed travel time to the receiver ) to calculate their own location on Earth using trilateration.

Global air-traffic management ( GATM ) is a concept for satellite-based communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management.

Waypoints have only become widespread for navigational use by the layman since the development of advanced navigational systems, such as the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) and certain other types of radio navigation.

* Global Positioning System ( GPS ) navigation

Today, large-scale triangulation networks for positioning have largely been superseded by the Global navigation satellite systems established since the 1980s.

* Global Positioning System ( GPS ): GPS was designed by the US military with the primary purpose of addressing " drift " within the inertial navigation of Submarine-launched ballistic missile ( SLBMs ) prior to launch.

* Global navigation satellite system receivers, e. g. ( GPS ) for geotagging

During the mission, the Global Low Orbiting Message Relay Satellite ( GLOMR ) was deployed from a " Getaway Special " ( GAS ) container, and 76 experiments were performed in Spacelab in such fields as fluid physics, materials processing, life sciences, and navigation.

* navigation data and symbols — for approaches and landings, the flight guidance systems can provide visual cues based on navigation aids such as an Instrument Landing System or augmented Global Positioning System such as the Wide Area Augmentation System.

They performed studies in cell biology, food chemistry, composite materials ( light weight, high temperature ), solar energy, meteorology, virology and immunology ( cancer research ), air and water pollution, air traffic control, global navigation ( constructed a prototype map of the Global Positioning System ), and underwater acoustics and optics.

Thus an enhanced system is required, taking inputs not only from the radar altimeter but also from inertial navigation system ( INS ), Global Positioning System ( GPS ), and flight control system ( FCS ), and using these to accurately predict the flight path of the aircraft up to ahead.

The museum will feature interactive exhibits and displays on the history, technology, and architecture of lighthouses, lightships and other aids to navigation, from primitive fire beacons to the Global Positioning System.

* Telematics includes but is not limited to Global Positioning System technology integrated with computers and mobile communications technology in automotive navigation systems.

* Global positioning system ( GPS ) or global navigation satellite system ( GNSS )

* IME Tutorial, tutorial on how to use Microsoft Global IME for pre-Windows 2000 systems.

For purposes of finance and market research, market-based classification systems such as the Global Industry Classification Standard and the Industry Classification Benchmark are used to classify businesses that participate in the service sector.

PAO systems were described in BC Crandall's Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance in the Brian Wowk article " Phased-Array Optics.

The global market for micro-electromechanical systems, which includes products such as automobile airbag systems, display systems and inkjet cartridges totaled $ 40 billion in 2006 according to Global MEMS / Microsystems Markets and Opportunities, a research report from SEMI and Yole Developpement and is forecasted to reach $ 72 billion by 2011.

TDMA is used in the digital 2G cellular systems such as Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ), IS-136, Personal Digital Cellular ( PDC ) and iDEN, and in the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ( DECT ) standard for portable phones.

* Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ): The GSM network is divided into three major systems: the switching system, the base station system, and the operation and support system.

With the onset of the Global War on Terror and Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, DISA has been at the heart of providing the telecommunications and information systems that enable 21st century joint warfighting.

Northrop Grumman and General Atomics are the dominant manufacturers in this industry, on the strength of the Global Hawk and Predator / Mariner systems.

Modern top-of-the-line total stations no longer require a reflector or prism ( used to return the light pulses used for distancing ) to return distance measurements, are fully robotic, and can even e-mail point data to the office computer and connect to satellite positioning systems, such as a Global Positioning System.

TIGER and DEM datasets greatly facilitated Geographic information systems and made the Global Positioning System much useful by providing context around locations given by the technology as coordinates.

* Global positioning systems ( GPS )

* Reforming Global Financial Governance: goal is to " make global financial governance systems more transparent, accountable and effective ".

At the Global Hydrology and Climate Center, researchers combine data from Earth systems with satellite data to monitor biodiversity conservation and climate change, providing information that improves agriculture, urban planning, and water-resource management.

Meadows wrote a weekly column called " The Global Citizen ", commenting on world events from a systems point of view.

SAP partners include Global Services Partners with cross-industry multinational consulting capabilities, Global Software Partners providing integrated products that complement SAP Business Suite solutions, and Global Technology Partners providing user companies with a wide range of products to support SAP technology, including vendors of hardware, database, storage systems, networks, and mobile computing technology.

For example, astronauts return from missions slightly younger than they would have been if they had remained on Earth, and Global Positioning System | GPS satellites work because they adjust for similar bending of spacetime to coordinate with systems on earth.

: Global concepts such as " Psycho-physical Unity " and " Use " describe how thinking strategies and attention work together during preparation for action.

However, their overall world view is rejected by groups such as Peoples Global Action and anti-fascist groups such as ANTIFA.

The Clinton Global Initiative ( CGI ), begun by the Clinton Foundation in 2005, attempts to address world problems such as global public health, poverty alleviation and religious and ethnic conflict.

Bluetooth provides a secure way to connect and exchange information between devices such as faxes, mobile phones, telephones, laptops, personal computers, printers, Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receivers, digital cameras, and video game consoles.

* 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

There are many banks such as Century National Bank, National Commercial Bank, Pan Caribbean Bank, Scotia-Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and First Global Bank.

Many researchers have recognized these kinds of supply network structures as a new organization form, using terms such as " Keiretsu ", " Extended Enterprise ", " Virtual Corporation ", " Global Production Network ", and " Next Generation Manufacturing System ".

Examples of a one-way time transfer system are the clock on a church or town building and the ringing of their time-indication bells ; time balls, radio clock signals such as LORAN, DCF77 and MSF ; and finally the Global Positioning System which uses multiple one-way time transfers from different satellites, with positional information and other advanced means of delay compensations to allow receiver compensation of time and position information in real time.

* Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs: The office of Undersecretary of Global Affairs was created by the Clinton Administration to manage diplomatic efforts on emerging worldwide issues, such as the environment, that could not be addressed at the bilateral or regional level.

Yacht races may be over a simple course of only a few miles, as in the harbour racing of the International One Design ; long-distance, open-ocean races, like the Bermuda Race ; or epic trans-global contests such as the Global Challenge, Volvo Ocean Race, Clipper Round the World Race and Mini Transat 6. 50.

* Global Reserves of natural resources such as Silver and Indium will diminish to where demand vastly outpaces availability.

In addition to these licensed networks, the two main private English-language over-the-air services, CTV and Global, are also generally considered to be " networks " by virtue of their national coverage, although they are not officially licensed as such.

When large firms such as Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing were found guilty of fraud, Wall Street was often blamed, even though these firms had headquarters around the nation and not in Wall Street.

Examples of such readers are PowerNet IP Reader by Isonas Security Systems, ID08 by Solus has the built in webservice to make it user friendly, Edge ER40 reader by HID Global, LogLock and UNiLOCK by ASPiSYS Ltd, BioEntry Plus reader by Suprema Inc. and 4G V-Station by Bioscrypt Inc.

The Global Gag Rule "... required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations ...." The Global Gag Rule was again suspended as one of the first official acts by United States President Barack Obama.

Communications satellites are used for military communications applications, such as Global Command and Control Systems.

A few interpreted programming languages such as Ruby and ( the CPython implementation of ) Python support threading, but have a limitation that is known as a Global Interpreter Lock ( GIL ).

However, such communities often cooperate with peer villages in networks of their own ( see Global Ecovillage Network for an example ).