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- Navigation and Related Subjects - Covers celestial navigation theory, sextant errors and corrections, rhumb line calculations and coastal navigation and conning.
- Understanding Astro Navigation - New system of astro navigation which could be used in survival situations especially in circumstances where navigators are faced with problems caused by failure of satellite navigation systems.
- Backcountry Navigation - Describes how to use a compass and a topographical map to navigate cross country.
- How Columbus and Apollo Astronauts Navigated - Comparative analysis of techniques used then and now including dead reckoning and celestial navigation. Discussion of the "longitude problem."
- Digital Navigation Publications - Downloadable publications from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency including The American Practical Navigator and Radio Navigational Aids.
- The European Space Agency: Satellite Navigation - Includes overview of satellite navigation and presentation of the European satellite navigation systems Galileo and EGNOS.
- Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific - Covers the role, techniques, and tools of the Carolinian navigator. From the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
- Sailing Issues Navigation Course - A free advanced online course on marine navigation. The course is split into Positions, Nautical Chart, Compass, Plotting, Piloting, Tides, Tide Prediction, Currents, and Navigation Aids. The aim is to teach how to navigate safely while using the minimum of resources.
- Innovative Navigation - Development and commercialization of navigation systems for inland navigation as well as consulting services in the fields of control theory, system theory, multi-sensor systems and artificial intelligence.
- Lunar Rover Demonstration Navigation Group - About the Carnegie Mellon researchers creating a prototype for a new lunar rover that can navigate rugged terrain and the navigation system they're using.
Wikipedia Articles
- Beidou navigation system - Beidou Navigation System () or Beidou Satellite Navigation and Positioning System () is a project by China to develop an independent satellite navigation system. The current Beidou-1 system (made up of 4 satellites) is experimental and has limited coverage and application.
- Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine - The Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, or CCNR (French: Commission Centrale pour la Navigation du Rhin) is the world's oldest international organization. Its function is to encourage European prosperity by guarenteeing a high level of security for navigation of the Rhine and environs.
- Institute of navigation - The Institute of Navigation (ION) is a non-profit professional organization for the advancement of the art and science of navigation. It was founded in 1945 and serves communities interested in navigation and positioning on land, air, sea and space.
- Area navigation - Area Navigation (RNAV) is a method of air navigation that allows an aircraft to choose any course within a network of navigation beacons, rather than navigating directly to and from the beacons. This can conserve flight distance, reduce congestion, and allow instrument flight plans into airports without beacons.
- Required Navigation Performance - Required Navigation Performance (RNP) is defined by ICAO as "a statement of the navigation performance necessary for operation within a defined airspace". Part of a broader concept called "Performance-based Navigation," RNP is a method of implementing routes and flight paths that differs from previous methods in that not only does it have an associated performance specification that an aircraft must ...