Satellite navigation system (10104 bytes)
1: ...with ever-improving electronics, allows satellite navigation systems to measure location to accuracies on the ...
5: ...strial [[longwave]] radio transmitters instead of satellites. These systems broadcast a radio pulse from a kn...
7: ...urements combined with a precise knowledge of the satellite's orbit can fix a particular position.
9: ...rements can be made at the same time to different satellites, allowing a continual fix to be generated in rea...
11: ...rs by using combinations of signals from multiple satellites and multiple correlators, and then using techni...

G-H (navigation) (1185 bytes)
1: '''G-H''' was a [[radio navigation]] system developed by Britian during [[World War ...

Course (navigation) (640 bytes)
1: A '''course''', in [[navigation]], is the direction of travel.
3: The term, even in navigation, can be ambiguous because there are several types...
4: ...''' is the general term describing the [[bearing (navigation)|bearing]] to be followed to move from the destin...
8: [[Category:Navigation]]

Navigation (14277 bytes)
1: ...irection]] on the surface of the [[Earth]]. See [[Navigation (disambiguation)]] for other meanings.''
5: There are several traditions of '''navigation'''.
7: == Polynesian navigation ==
22: ... established in [[Hawaii]] to research Polynesian navigation methods. They built a replica of an ancient doub...
27: == Western navigation ==

X-Gerät (navigation) (4347 bytes)
1: ...on)]] system and was replaced with the [[Y-Gerät (navigation)]] system.
5: ...system used by the Luftwaffe called [[Knickebein (navigation)|Knickebein]] was never invented to be used in th...

Knickebein (navigation) (3772 bytes)
1: ...r navigation. It was replaced with the [[X-Gerät (navigation)]] system.
5: [[Lorenz (navigation)|Lorenz]] directed an aircraft down a line, so tw...

Stort Navigation (3084 bytes)
5: ...George Jackson and William Masterson to build the Navigation and to collect tolls, which were set as follows:
55: Thomas Yeoman was appointed engineer for the Navigation in 1766, and it was opened to boats in the autumn...
57: The Navigation is now managed by [[British Waterways]].

Lorenz (navigation) (1096 bytes)
9: * [[radio navigation]]

Oboe (navigation) (5106 bytes)
17: ...able effort the Germans put into other electronic navigation systems, they never took the concept farther than...
23: ... very close to Oboe and not very much like [[Gee (navigation)|Gee]]. The name was apparently adopted because t...

Navigation (disambiguation) (486 bytes)
1: It its most general meaning, the term '''navigation''' refers to planning of motion. In specific area...
3: *See [[Seamanship]] for navigation in the sense of all aspects of travel in [[ship]]...
4: *[[Navigation (traffic)]].
5: *[[Navigation]], determination of position and direction on the...
6: *See [[Navigation research]] for fundamentals of navigation.

Blyth Navigation (633 bytes)
1: ... after which the navigation leaves rivers behind. Navigation ceased in 1934.
3: Some efforts have been made to restore the navigation but flooding of bordering land has made this unpo...

Navigation light (1494 bytes)
1: A '''Navigation Light''' is a colored source of specular illumina...
3: Some common navigation lighting systems include:
15: ...://www.msq.qld.gov.au/qt/msq.nsf/index/nav_lights Navigation lights]

Bearing (navigation) (1362 bytes)
1: ...ference direction is [[true north]]. In [[stellar navigation]], the reference direction is that of the [[North...
3: ...te]]s is constant. The bearing for polar-orbiting satellites varies continuously.
11: [[Category:Navigation]]

Navigation Acts (3753 bytes)
1: ... [[foreign]] [[shipping]]. Resentment against the Navigation Acts was a cause of the [[Anglo-Dutch Wars]] and ...
4: The first Navigation Act was passed in October 1651 by the parliament ...
8: It is noteworthy that only shortly before the Navigation Act was passed Dutch lawyer [[Hugo de Groot]] ([[...
11: ...s II of England|Charles II]] in [[1660]] a second Navigation Act was passed, with the rules expanded to cover ...
20: The Navigation Acts were repealed in [[1849]] by which point Bri...

Air navigation (10762 bytes)
1: ... are the same for all aircraft, big or small. Air navigation involves successfully piloting an [[aircraft]] fr...
3: ...bservations. This may be supplemented using radio navigation aids.
7: ...tail - towns, roads, wooded areas - to aid visual navigation. In the [[United Kingdom|UK]], the [[Civil Aviati...
9: ...e called the ''track''. The aim of all subsequent navigation is to follow the chosen track as accurately as po...
11: ...[[slide rule]] - or a purpose designed electronic navigational computer to calculate initial headings.

Radio navigation (6135 bytes)
1: '''Radio navigation''' is the application of [[radio]] frequencies to...
3: ...ces replaced the stars and planets of [[celestial navigation]] with a system that could be used in all weather...
16: The next major advance in "beam based" navigation system was the use two signals that varied not in...
20: Another wartime system was the British [[GEE (navigation)|GEE]]. GEE used a series of broadcasters sending...
24: ...ange RAdio Navigation'', originally developed for navigation over the Atlantic. In [[LORAN]] a single "master"...

Celestial navigation (7233 bytes)
1: ...c]]s. Sights on the moon, planet and stars allow navigation to occur at night or when clouds obscure other ob...
3: Celestial navigation works because at any given instant, any particula...
7: Practical celestial navigation usually requires a [[chronometer]] to measure tim...
9: ...estial navigation in combination with [[satellite navigation]] to correct a dead-reckoning track, that is, a c...
19: ...r the same measure the day before creates serious navigation errors. Before good chronometers were available,...

The China Navigation Co. Ltd. (609 bytes)
1: ....]] company (known as [[Taikoo]] in China). China Navigation is often known as CNCo.

Gee (navigation) (1481 bytes)
1: GEE was a British [[radio navigation]] system used during [[World War II]]. It used a ...

Head of navigation (420 bytes)
1: ...ng caused by a [[waterfall]] or a [[dam]] without navigation [[Canal lock|locks]].

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