Definition: Global Positioning System (GPS)

Category: FAO Agricultural censuses

System that makes it possible to find the geographic position of a point on the earth’s surface by longitude and latitude. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/world_census_agri_2020_EN.pdf
Source:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), "World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020. Volume 1: Programme, concepts and definitions", Roma, 2015
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