ACRO.IT Acronym Directory

License Plate Recognition (LPR) is an image-processing technology used to identify vehicles by their license plates.

Adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulates the adrenal cortex.

Service Oriented Architecture is an architectural paradigm and discipline that may be used to build infrastructures enabling those with needs (consumers) and those with capabilities (providers) to interact via services across disparate domains of technology and ownership.

The is a worldwide radio-navigation system formed from a constellation of 24 satellites that orbit the earth in 12 hours and their ground stations.

GPS uses these "man-made stars" as reference points to calculate positions accurate to a matter of meters. In fact, with advanced forms of GPS you can make measurements to better than a centimeter!

GPS provides specially coded satellite signals that can be processed in a GPS receiver, enabling the receiver to compute position, velocity and time.