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Global Positioning System



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The precision-agriculture approach employs technology and the global positioning system to ensure that seeds, fertilizer and chemicals are used correctly.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2023

During the investigation, detectives found that the global positioning system on the officers’ police cars showed them outside their assigned patrol area that day, Ms. Fernandez Rundle said.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023

The global positioning system, for example, provides navigation services to the military as well as civilians.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2019

But you’d probably still be surprised at all the things that GPS—the global positioning system that underlies all of modern navigation—can do.

From Scientific American • Oct. 30, 2019

Officials decided that having a physical “panic button” was faster than using an application for mobile phones, which will be required to have a global positioning system by 2018.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2016