There's a ground-based system that you can use for GPS called LORAN.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 20, 2009] Reference

In a 1990 test, a ground-based interceptor destroyed an unarmed missile.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Safety Net Full Of Holes] Reference

We have about 17 ground-based interceptors up in Alaska and in California.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2007] Reference

Spills from pipelines and ground-based facilities are actually a much larger menace.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2007] Reference

Well, the computers have been working all along, but it's been ground-based computers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Discovery Successfully Launches 100th Space Shuttle Mission - October 11, 2000] Reference

The focus and the answer in the larger sense, of course, is ground-based food delivery.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001] Reference

DOBBS: Communist China has developed a ground-based laser system to blind our spy satellites.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2006] Reference

In the past year, China has blinded a U.S. reconnaissance satellite with a ground-based laser.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2007] Reference

And what they will be able to do is use ground-based and sea-based radars to track the vehicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2006] Reference

Would it make sense to have these ground-based aircraft in there (inaudible) how are they doing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2001] Reference

There're also ground-based interceptors in Alaska that are designed to hit missiles in midflight.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Readies Missile Defense Before N. Korea Test] Reference

First of all, when you make it conditioned on the ground-based, you give all the power to the insurgents.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2005] Reference

And as the fighting continues there's growing concern it will spread and become a wider ground-based war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2006] Reference

The ground-based system and sea - based aegis system are being tested as defenses against enemy missiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2008] Reference

Even if that radio was out, it would have still been tracked by the ground-based radars, which it was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2003] Reference

Based on my visit to Fort Greeley, the ground-based interceptors are clearly in a position to take action.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2009] Reference

They are also using some of these ground-based tankers to try to get as much water as they can on the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2007] Reference

Mackay and Law believe there's plenty of work for both Hubble and ground-based telescopes with the Lucky edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heavenly View] Reference

Most of the lightning detecting is ground-based so you don't see a tremendous amount of it here over the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2009] Reference

The compound had no ground-based dissimulator, external force-field, or any other detectable high-tech defenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittarius Whorl]

Flinx stared ahead, saw that the plateau the ground-based voice had mentioned was far smaller than he had hoped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphan Star]

The ground-based system and the sea-based ages (ph) system are being tested as defensives against enemy missiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2008] Reference

What do you think of this whole notion of having this kind of either ground-based or space-based missile defense?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2006] Reference

Sanjay, talking about pollution, ground-based pollution and smog, the Beijing Olympics are coming up this summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2008] Reference

Two ground-based systems, one using animometers (ph) that measure wind speed and direction, and another using radar.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2005] Reference

That and the two space-minus interstellar communications facilities would have been their first ground-based targets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirge]

If Iran launches, for example, a missile aimed at Europe, it would be detected by satellites and ground-based sensors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007] Reference

The Chinese used a ground-based missile to take down one of their old weather satellites about 500 miles above the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2007] Reference

We have put high technology on the border, ground-based radar that is much more effective in some locations than fencing is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2007] Reference

The Chinese recently used a ground-based missile to take down one of their old weather satellites, 537 miles above the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2007] Reference

Behavior like firing ground-based lasers to blind a U.S. reconnaissance satellite and rapid progress toward a blue water navy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2007] Reference

In the 1996 election, Bill Clinton cleverly trumped GOP candidate Bob Dole by promising a limited, ground-based missile defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shot In The Dark] Reference

It takes 15 to 20 minutes to traverse these new areas even with the fastest ground-based mounts from the game's prior iteration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

It's a ground-based war, and we need a defense secretary, so these arguments go, to make sure that we can sustain this argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2006] Reference

Fort Greely (ph), Alaska, the U.S. military deployed a new ground-based missile interceptor to shoot down long-range enemy missiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004] Reference

Political activist Tom Hayden, who led some of the biggest ground-based movements on Vietnam and race relations, sees a marked shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Browning of Grassroots] Reference

Moreover, the Pentagon disagrees that deploying a space - and ground-based defense system poses significant technological challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Safety Net Full Of Holes] Reference

ROBERT GATES, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: We will not increase the number of current ground-based interceptors in Alaska, as had been planned.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2009] Reference