- Industry: 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.
A single display element on an LCD screen. The more pixels, the higher the resolution and definition.
Industry:Telecommunications
The way in which information is exchanged between the GPS receiver and the user. This takes place through the screen display and buttons on the unit.
Industry:Telecommunications
Most Garmin GPS units are waterproof in accordance with IEC 529 IPX7. IEC 529 is a European system of test specification standards for classifying the degrees of protection provided by the enclosures of electrical equipment. An IPX7 designation means the GPS case can withstand accidental immersion in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes. An IPX8 designation is for continuous underwater use.
Industry:Telecommunications
The distance between points of corresponding phase of two consecutive cycles of a wave.
Industry:Telecommunications
A unit of length used in sea and air navigation, based on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle, especially an international and U.S. unit equal to 1,852 meters (about 6,076 feet).
Industry:Telecommunications
The act of determining the course or heading of movement. This movement could be for a plane, ship, automobile, person on foot, or any other similar means.
Industry:Telecommunications
The message transmitted by each GPS satellite containing system time, clock correction parameters, ionospheric delay model parameters, and the satellite’s ephemeris data and health. The information is used to process GPS signals to give the user time, position, and velocity. Also known as the data message.
Industry:Telecommunications
A single display element on an LCD screen. The more pixels, the higher the resolution and definition.
Industry:Telecommunications
A method of determining the location of an unknown point, as in GPS navigation, by using the laws of plane trigonometry.
Industry:Telecommunications
The lowest region of the atmosphere between the surface of the earth and the tropopause, characterized by decreasing temperature with increasing altitude. GPS signals travel through the troposphere (and other atmospheric layers).
Industry:Telecommunications
