Technological system for locating moving persons or objects
A resident of Beaumont, Texas has his armband scanned as part of the tracking-system being used to identify residents using the transportation services offered by the city of Beaumont to evacuate the city in advance of Hurricane Gustav 's landfall on August 31, 2008.
Tracking-system on a forklift
An M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) carrying a radar and tracking system shelter sits parked at an airfield during Operation Desert Shield . The shelter is used by the Marines of the 3rd Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV) Platoon to track their Pioneer RPVs during flight.
A tracking system , also known as a locating system , is used for the observing of persons or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of location data for further processing.