When the map lies: What GPS jamming and spoofing mean for aviation and maritime operations
GPS jamming and spoofing affects around 900 commercial flights every day and thousands of vessels at sea. Here is what the threat means for aviation and maritime operations. For most passengers boarding a commercial flight, GPS is invisible infrastructure, background technology that works until it does not. For pilots, it is something else entirely: a system they are increasingly being trained not to trust. The disruption of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals, through jamming, which blocks positioning data, and spoofing, which replaces it with false information, has moved from a geopolitical irritant to a daily operational challenge for crews flying routes anywhere near the Middle East, the Baltic Sea, … When the map lies: What GPS jamming and spoofing mean for aviation and maritime operations












































