Welcome to Global Positioning System Courtesy of Sagnac
Have you ever been told by the gatekeepers that Sagnac/Miller were not wrong and if, instead, GPS was based on the gedankens of Einstein, that we would all be aboard the “bus to Abilene” ?!
Archive for July, 2011
Improving GPS Accuracy on Smartphones for Field Data Collection
Ability to improve GPS accuracy and recorded location beyond single GPS point capture. Freeance Mobile SmartForms now comes with a high accuracy GPS collection mode option. This high accuracy GPS mode allows the SmartForms application to continually collect and analyze GPS location data and then capture a GPS location that is much more accurate than [...]
GPS tracking of pigeons flying in a flock
Supplementary Movie from the paper “Flying in a flock comes at a cost in pigeons,” by James R. Usherwood, Marinos Stavrou, John C. Lowe, Kyle Roskilly, Alan M. Wilson (University of London, UK), published in Nature 474: 494–497, 23 June 2011. DOI dx.doi.org The movie shows up to 18 pigeons flying in a flock measured [...]
“Motorcycle Alarm System” From Phantom Tracking Includes The First and Only Crash Response System
www.phantomtracking.com Watch to the end and see just how our motorcycle alarm system actually works. This motorcycle security device is the first of its kind to include a 24 hr live crash response system to keep riders safe. Over 123000 motorcycle crashes occur each year and over half are solo events. You can’t afford not [...]
STS-69 Flight Day 5 Video File
Awakening to the theme song of the television show ‘Rin Tin Tin’, the astronauts, Cmdr. Dave Walker, Pilot Ken Cockrell, and Mission Specialists Jim Voss, Jim Newman, and Mike Gernhardt, of the STS-69 mission began their fifth day in orbit. The deployment of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) was accomplished successfully, although it was delayed [...]