Global Positioning System

Relevance and positioning

Design, relevance and positioning

Positioning for a bargain with the West

Cameras on the ceiling and a laptop serve as an indoor global positioning system.

The plan focuses on agency responsibilities, possible settlement sites, the pre positioning of relief items and security arrangements.

The Department uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) in its peacekeeping missions, for their military and civilian components.

Many investors also feel the need to balance increasingly speculative investments ( satellite positioning ) with much safer investments ( core positioning ). To meet the latter objective, they turn to prudently managed countries, placing upward pressure on their currencies, too and, again, beyond what would be warranted by domestic fundamentals.

Based on the above positioning, we can boldly imagine the rough appearance of the new frigates in the future.

But here, Brian captured a unique view by positioning himself underneath the boat when they threw the waste overboard.

In recognition of its unique positioning and role, UNOSAT has become part of several global initiatives of strategic importance.

Further analysis has subsequently been undertaken, and UNOPS has developed a set of strategic business development objectives for market positioning.

As a major entrepôt in South East Asia, Singapore has been relentlessly positioning itself vis à vis the global economy.

Most dhows used for arms shipment are motorized, equipped with the Global Positioning System and other sophisticated navigation and maritime instruments.

Specific criterion (ii) The extent to which the international arrangement on forests succeeds in enhancing the positioning of forests on the international agenda

The regional programme has succeeded in positioning UNDP effectively in sensitive areas such as HIV AIDS, information and communications technology (ICT), and governance.

Show a visual representation of non printing characters, such as tabs and paragraph markers. This can be a useful aid to precisely positioning text.

It's the same with brands the more massive a brand, the more baggage it has, the more force is needed to change its positioning.

This information sharing tool will also be the basis of a future virtual emergency operations centre, integrated with geographic information and global positioning systems.

Agenda 21 has to be turned in an historical opportunity for revitalizing and reinforcing the positioning of municipalities in the national and international context.

The positioning of the carrier in Guam would bring thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in military spending to Guam, as well as 10,000 sailors.

The pirates off the coast of Somalia are trained fighters, often dressed in military fatigues, using speedboats equipped with satellite phones and Global Positioning System equipment.

You know, we capture this imagery but to build the 3 D models we need to do geo positioning. We need to do geo registering of the images.

And there are parallels for marketing you can invest for a long time in a brand, but a single contrary observation of that positioning will destroy consumers' belief.

What this means is you can gather more and more data around a hypothesis or a positioning, and it will strengthen it, but it will not conclusively prove it.

1.30 Contingency planning for the disengagement' includes the pre positioning of food and other supplies for distribution, and preparation for medical emergencies that might arise during the disengagement process.

The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) is actively contributing to the International Earth Rotation Service through analysis of global positioning system (GPS) and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) measurements.

It is our view that the growth of the Court should be accompanied by a strategic vision and positioning for future relevance and benefits for itself and States parties.

Specific strategies for emergencies and non focus countries, and the positioning of the UNICEF WASH programme within the global poverty reduction campaign further widen the scope of the new approach.

In essence, there is an imperative need to design national, regional and global policies in a coherent setting for positioning developing countries advantageously for sustained development in an increasingly globalizing world.

In 2004, it focused on new partnerships to enhance women's capacity to benefit from information and communication technology (ICT), thereby positioning rural women producers at higher levels of the value chain.

UNHCR is looking into ways to improve its contingency planning, including stock pre positioning, in order to improve the quality and timing of the UNHCR response and to better manage resources.

From 26 September to 1 October 2004, a long campaign of simultaneous observations of all the summits was carried out with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver assigned to each summit.

In 2004, the Consultative Committee commissioned an independent assessment of UNIFEM (A 60 62 E 2005 10) which highlighted the opportunities lost due to the failure to strengthen its positioning and resources.

In the order of importance, the next challenges identified by respondents were differing levels of language proficiency, driving skills, radio communications and map reading skills (including use of global positioning system technology).

Ionization layer full of electrons indicated the radio used by the military has a larger range of broadcasts. In addition, it may prevent the global positioning system (GPS) signal from the solar storm.

The stockpiling and pre positioning of key emergency supplies is highly effective in mitigating the effects of emergencies, especially in countries that experience cyclical emergency events such as cholera outbreaks, droughts and floods.

At the same time, the mission was encouraged that IEC, with the logistical support of MONUC, had commenced the pre positioning of electoral material for the referendum, as well as the training of electoral personnel.

However, for others who had received national training, the familiarization training was too simple and they suggested more focus on mission specific aspects, including technology such as the global positioning system (GPS) and Lotus Notes.

Our fisheries regulations mandate the use of global positioning satellite equipment on fishing vessels larger than 30 gross tons and the use of duly authorized on board observers, who collect necessary information for the authorities.

Today s sentiment has been fueled by populist parties positioning themselves as guardians of national identity. Europe, they argue, faces a mass influx that threatens to place even greater strain on its economies, labor markets, and cultures.

And so along with changing who worked there, you must have come up against another positioning that we always run into, in particular with women, and it has to do with outside image, dress, the veiled woman.

In particular, some 18,000 Sudanese refugees entered Uganda at an average rate of over a thousand a month, claiming insecurity due to the Lord's Resistance Army fighting, inter ethnic positioning and lack of food in southern Sudan.

In February 2005 the European Commission had organized an international conference to explore cooperation between space faring and non space faring countries in the development of global services such as positioning, Earth observation and access to information.

The IDNDR secretariat recognizes that space technologies, including remote sensing, global positioning and satellite communications systems, offer disaster managers valuable tools that can be used to prepare for, mitigate and, in some cases, prevent the effects of disasters.