GPS, which uses signals from satellites, only works well outside and its co-ordinate system only identifies areas down to a few metres in diameter.

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The question is, how do we co-ordinate an asteroid early warning system at the global level?

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So far, Dr Laschi's robot is not so much an octopus as a monopus, but she plans to correct this over the next two years by adding seven more arms and a control system that can co-ordinate them all.

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The ECB will co-ordinate a network of national central banks, the European System of Central Banks.

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"What you don't have is a system to pull all that together and co-ordinate it, " he told BBC Radio Wales.

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It will co-ordinate the development and application of standards for computer support to meet the requirements of the shared bibliographic system and services in co-operation with the National Libraries of the countries participating in the COBISS network.

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