When dedicated GPS units replaced paper maps, it felt revolutionary. Now, there's no shortage of vastly superior smartphone navigation apps. Here's how modern apps outshine the GPS units of yesteryear ...

Accurate smartphone positioning in dense urban environments remains challenging due to signal blockage, multipath effects, and unreliable satellite visibility.

In recent years, navigation apps have pretty much supplanted maps as the preferred way to find travel destinations near and far. The most popular app is Google Maps, but some also use Apple Maps or ...

Ocean engineering researchers at Texas A&M University are developing a smart system to combat collisions between ships and stationary structures such as offshore platforms. By combining raw radar ...

Meanwhile, high-precision GNSS observables such as carrier phase are underutilized on smartphones due to frequent signal interruptions. Based on these challenges, there is a strong need to develop a ...