What does GPS Stand for? What is a GPS System? How Does a GPS Work?

Posted by ETIS Founder on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Under: Beginning Building Blocks
GPS Stands for: 
Global Positioning System

What is a GPS System: 
For practical purposes, a GPS system, as in one you can buy, allows you to gain and keep access to location and time information.  The advantage to having such a device, is that in places or regions of the earth where climatic and weather conditions are harsh, and, or, there is barely to no civilization existent, including no electrical outlets, and no time keeping devices maintained by the population indigenous there, if there is a population there, you still will be able to be up to date on what time it is, and whereon earth you actually are.

These are top quality GPS systems:



The Basics of How a GPS Works:
There are GPS satellites in the sky.  The GPS system that you can buy online and carry with you when you travel, is more accurately described as a receiver.  It works with respect to the satellite.  The final output of what you see on the GPS screen, is the result of these GPS mechanisms.

GPS Developments:
Satellite systems that work with GPS systems are managed and proposed to be managed, in countries around the world.  Well known as of summer 2012 are:
  • Galileo
  • GLONASS 
  • Compass Navigation
  • Indian Regional Navigational System
  

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