- Domeniu: Telecommunications
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Garmin designs, develops, manufactures and markets a diverse family of hand-held, portable and fixed-mount GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communications and information products for the general aviation and consumer markets.
The frequency of an unmodulated output of a radio transmitter. The GPS L1 carrier frequency is 1575.42 MHz.
Industry:Telecommunications
The art or technique of making maps or charts. Many GPS receivers have detailed mapping—or cartography—capabilities.
Industry:Telecommunications
The difference between the indicated clock time in the GPS receiver and true universal time (or GPS satellite time).
Industry:Telecommunications
A constant difference in the time reading between two clocks, normally used to indicate a difference between two time zones.
Industry:Telecommunications
The power-on sequence where the GPS receiver downloads almanack data before establishing a position fix.
Industry:Telecommunications
A worldwide chain of monitoring and control stations that control and manage the GPS satellite constellation.
Industry:Telecommunications
Replaced Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the world standard for time in 1986. UTC uses atomic clock measurements to add or omit leap seconds each year to compensate for changes in the rotation of the earth.
Industry:Telecommunications
A set of numbers that describes your location on or above the earth. Coordinates are typically based on latitude/longitude lines of reference or a global/regional grid projection (e.g., UTM, MGRS, Maidenhead).
Industry:Telecommunications
The direction from the beginning landmark of a course to its destination (measured in degrees, radians, or mils), or the direction from a route waypoint to the next waypoint in the route segment.
Industry:Telecommunications
The heading you need to maintain in order to reach a destination.
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