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The word ‘navigation’ comes from Latin navigare which means ‘to sail’. The word navigare itself is derived from navis, which stands for ‘ship’, and agere, meaning ‘to drive’ (Esmat Sep 2007). Early navigation primarily dealt with vessels traveling in sea. However, it has now permeated into every imaginable form of transportation as well as various other applications including location-based services, search and rescue, law enforcement, road and air travel, remote asset tracking, fleet management, intelligence gathering, sports, public safety, and environmental assessment and planning (El-Rabbany 2002). Advances in microelectronics and miniaturization of integrated circuits have facilitated the production of inexpensive inertial sensors, global positioning system (GPS) receivers and powerful computers. This has placed navigation systems within easy reach of low cost applications.
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Not all GPS receivers can provide attitude information, which requires two antennae.
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Noureldin, A., Karamat, T.B., Georgy, J. (2013). Introduction. In: Fundamentals of Inertial Navigation, Satellite-based Positioning and their Integration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30466-8_1
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