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- Provides a broad range of topics relevant to navigation and geographic position-finding, in an intuitive manner with minimum mathematical formalism
- Presents the progress of navigation throughout history, which enhances the understanding of the main technical challenges to be solved going forward
- Inclusive of extensive GPS technology coverage including receivers and applications
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Intended for non-specialists with some knowledge of physics or engineering at the college level, this book covers in an intuitive manner a broad range of topics relevant to the evolution of surface and space navigation, with minimum mathematical formalism.
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“The book documents well the tremendous advances in navigation from the time of the Phoenicians and provides a good review of how navigation has evolved in nature … and in human exploration. Major explains the workings of the instrumentation that scientists and engineers invented for this purpose. … The book contains good references and illustrations … . Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and undergraduate students.” (N. Sadanand, Choice, Vol. 51 (9), May, 2014)
Authors and Affiliations
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Severna Park, USA
F. G. Major
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quo Vadis: Evolution of Modern Navigation
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Quantum Techniques
Authors: F. G. Major
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8672-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8671-8
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4196-4
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8672-5
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 426
Number of Illustrations: 167 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics