{"id":1387,"date":"2024-02-17T19:50:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:13:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:43:05","slug":"q-in-which-of-the-following-areas-can-gps-technology-be-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-in-which-of-the-following-areas-can-gps-technology-be-used","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0In which of the following areas can GPS technology be used?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mobile phone operations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Banking operations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Controlling the power grids<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Select the correct answer using the code given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1, 2 and 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (d) 1, 2 and 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"global-positioning-system-gps\">Global Positioning System (<strong>GPS<\/strong>)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Global Positioning System, originally Navstar GPS, is a&nbsp;<strong>satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government<\/strong>&nbsp;and operated by the United States Space Force.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is one of the&nbsp;<strong>global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)<\/strong>&nbsp;that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&nbsp;<strong>does not require the user to transmit any data, and operates independently of any telephonic or Internet reception<\/strong>, though these technologies can enhance the usefulness of the GPS positioning information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It provides critical positioning capabilities to&nbsp;<strong>military, civil, and commercial users&nbsp;<\/strong>around the world. Although the United States government created, controls and maintains the GPS system, it is&nbsp;<strong>freely accessible to anyone with a GPS receiver.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GPS works in&nbsp;<strong>any weather conditions, anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, with no subscription fees or setup charges.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How GPS Works Today\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wCcARVbL_Dk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select the correct answer using the code given below: Answer: (d) 1, 2 and 3 Global Positioning System (GPS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[44],"years":[55],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-science-and-tech","years-55"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":44,"label":"Science and Tech"}],"years":[{"value":55,"label":"2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Science and Tech","slug":"science-and-tech","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}