Kategoria BISAC: Transportation >> Navigation

With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated.

The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has seen some revolutionary changes, spurred on by the threat of disaster at sea and the possibility of huge rewards from successful voyages. As this book shows, the solution of the infamous...

This book covers satellite position location technology and how the GPS system has evolved. You will learn the functional parts of GPS systems, how they work together to provide position measurements that are accurate to within centimeters.

The operation of GPS is described including satellite acquisition, signal reception, and pseudo-ranging. Discover how time reference and error correction data is used and why it is very important to provide precise satellite positioning. Global Positioning System is a navigation system that uses satellites to act as reference points for the...

Coastal Navigation for Class and Home Study is based on the notes prepared for students during some 20 years of teaching navigation, initially to private or commercial pilots, and then to sailors and professional mariners. The book is copiously illustrated with graphics showing how to plot courses and bearings, as well as regular and advanced Lines of Position using the international system of labeling. It provides simple and straightforward step-by-step methods. Additional notes and explanations are given in the areas where students traditionally experience difficulties, together with...

Coastal Navigation Exercises is based on the notes and exercises prepared for students during some 15 years of teaching marine navigation to sailors and professional mariners. They require the data tables given in the Appendix of this manual, and the Canadian marine chart Strait of Georgia, Southern Portion, published by Fisheries and Ocean Canada and available through chart retailers. The exercises are grouped in seven sessions corresponding to the lectures of the Power Point presentation, which presents the images illustrating the course and the exercises in this manual: each question is...