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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In 1950s–70s, Gladys West - mathematician @ U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA - worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized; it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the USAF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame - decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense & mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel [despite their puerile AI-generated image of Ms. West]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In 1950s–70s, Gladys West - mathematician @ U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA - worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized; it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the USAF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame - decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense & mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel [despite their puerile AI-generated image of Ms. West]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In 1950s–70s, Gladys West - mathematician @ U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA - worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized; it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the USAF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame - decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense & mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel [despite their puerile AI-generated image of Ms. West]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In 1950s–70s, Gladys West - mathematician @ U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA - worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized; it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the USAF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame - decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense & mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel [despite their puerile AI-generated image of Ms. West]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In 1950s–70s, Gladys West - mathematician @ U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA - worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized; it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the USAF Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame - decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense & mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel [despite their puerile AI-generated image of Ms. West]

You should also watch the closing session of #FOSS4G2022. It was an amazing #FOSS4G conference.
Sandro Santilli received the Sol Katz Award 2022.
https://youtu.be/x6W_SLAcW9k?si=H-ouas3pHnslyN8L
It was Letwin Pondos first FOSS4G. She is from Zimbabwe and is sharing her experiences #youthmappers #WomeninGeospatial #SheSpeaksSpatial
https://africansurveyors.net/she-speaks-spatial-2/ #osgeo #fossgis

You should also watch the closing session of #FOSS4G2022. It was an amazing #FOSS4G conference.
Sandro Santilli received the Sol Katz Award 2022.
https://youtu.be/x6W_SLAcW9k?si=H-ouas3pHnslyN8L
It was Letwin Pondos first FOSS4G. She is from Zimbabwe and is sharing her experiences #youthmappers #WomeninGeospatial #SheSpeaksSpatial
https://africansurveyors.net/she-speaks-spatial-2/ #osgeo #fossgis

You should also watch the closing session of #FOSS4G2022. It was an amazing #FOSS4G conference.
Sandro Santilli received the Sol Katz Award 2022.
https://youtu.be/x6W_SLAcW9k?si=H-ouas3pHnslyN8L
It was Letwin Pondos first FOSS4G. She is from Zimbabwe and is sharing her experiences #youthmappers #WomeninGeospatial #SheSpeaksSpatial
https://africansurveyors.net/she-speaks-spatial-2/ #osgeo #fossgis

You should also watch the closing session of #FOSS4G2022. It was an amazing #FOSS4G conference.
Sandro Santilli received the Sol Katz Award 2022.
https://youtu.be/x6W_SLAcW9k?si=H-ouas3pHnslyN8L
It was Letwin Pondos first FOSS4G. She is from Zimbabwe and is sharing her experiences #youthmappers #WomeninGeospatial #SheSpeaksSpatial
https://africansurveyors.net/she-speaks-spatial-2/ #osgeo #fossgis

You should also watch the closing session of #FOSS4G2022. It was an amazing #FOSS4G conference.
Sandro Santilli received the Sol Katz Award 2022.
https://youtu.be/x6W_SLAcW9k?si=H-ouas3pHnslyN8L
It was Letwin Pondos first FOSS4G. She is from Zimbabwe and is sharing her experiences #youthmappers #WomeninGeospatial #SheSpeaksSpatial
https://africansurveyors.net/she-speaks-spatial-2/ #osgeo #fossgis

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Day 7: Red
More monochrome! All 14443 GPS points are a semi-transparent bird footprint belonging to one of 28 individual birds. The Red-backed shrike is also a Red List bird meaning the population is in severe decline and globally threatened #30DayMapChallenge #WomenInGeospatial

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AllisonCully/status/1192522406927060992