The devices help pilots avoid "terrain" by coupling global-positioning technology with flight data on speed, altitude and other readings, and a database containing the topography of the planet.

FORBES: Cockpit Fight

Once there, they use aerial photography and remote cameras in combination with depth-finding and global-positioning satellite technology (as well as some first-hand testing of the waves) to measure the waves and map the contours of the ocean floor under the breaks.

ECONOMIST: On the beach

Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.

FORBES: Cement meets the cyberworld