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Author |
: Mark Denny |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2012-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421405605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421405601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Science of Navigation by : Mark Denny
In today’s world of online maps and travel directions delivered wirelessly to hand-held devices, getting from place to place requires little thought from most of us—which is a good thing, since accurate navigation can be tricky. Get your bearings with Mark Denny—an expert at explaining scientific concepts in non-technical language—in this all-encompassing look at the history and science of navigation. Denny’s tour kicks off with key facts about the earth and how its physical properties affect travel. He discusses cartography and early mapmakers, revealing fascinating tidbits such as how changes over time of the direction of true north, as well as of magnetic north, impacted navigation. Denny details the evolution of navigation from the days of coastal piloting to GPS and other modern-day technologies. He explains the scientific breakthroughs in accessible, amusing terms and provides an insightful look at their effects on societies, cultures, and human advancement. Throughout, Denny frames the long history of navigation with amazing tales of such people as Pytheas, an ancient Greek navigator, and Sir Francis Drake and of such discoveries as the magnetic compass and radio direction finding. Whether you have an interest in orienteering and geocaching or want to know more about the critical role navigation has played in human survival and progress since ancient people learned to use lodestones, The Science of Navigation is for you. With it you’ll finally understand the why of wayfinding.
Author |
: James L. Gould |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2012-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691140452 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691140456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nature's Compass by : James L. Gould
Explores how animals are able to navigate around the world with accuracy.
Author |
: John S. Croucher |
Publisher |
: Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages |
: 527 |
Release |
: 2016-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781445659862 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1445659867 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mistress of Science by : John S. Croucher
The first biography of the remarkable Janet Taylor, a nineteenth-century navigator and mathematician who left an incredible mark on the male-dominated field of sea navigation
Author |
: M. R. O'Connor |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2019-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250096968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250096960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wayfinding by : M. R. O'Connor
At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. "A marvel of storytelling." —Kirkus (Starred Review) In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O’Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place. "O'Connor talked to just the right people in just the right places, and her narrative is a marvel of storytelling on its own merits, erudite but lightly worn. There are many reasons why people should make efforts to improve their geographical literacy, and O'Connor hits on many in this excellent book—devouring it makes for a good start." —Kirkus Reviews
Author |
: Mario Pérez-Montoro |
Publisher |
: Chandos Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2016-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780081006771 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0081006772 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites by : Mario Pérez-Montoro
Navigation Design and SEO for Content-Intensive Websites: A Guide for an Efficient Digital Communication presents the characteristics and principal guidelines for the analysis and design of efficient navigation and information access systems on content-intensive websites, such as magazines and other media publications. Furthermore, the book aims to present the tools of information processing, including information architecture (IA) and content categorization systems, so that such designs can ensure a good navigation experience based on the semantic relations between content items. The book also presents best practices in the design of information access systems with regard to their main structures, including search query forms and search result pages. Finally, the book describes the foundations of search engine optimization (SEO), emphasizing SEO oriented to publications focused on communication and the coverage of current affairs, including images and videos. - Focuses on the newly emerging and significant sector of content characterized by its use of multimedia: text, image and video - Presents comprehensive coverage of sites and their combined information architecture and SEO needs - Explores an analysis of existing best practices to offer operational proposals for the development of digital news and current affairs publications - Analyzes academic studies by scholars working in this field
Author |
: Andrey V. Savkin |
Publisher |
: Butterworth-Heinemann |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2015-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780128037577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0128037571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Safe Robot Navigation Among Moving and Steady Obstacles by : Andrey V. Savkin
Safe Robot Navigation Among Moving and Steady Obstacles is the first book to focus on reactive navigation algorithms in unknown dynamic environments with moving and steady obstacles. The first three chapters provide introduction and background on sliding mode control theory, sensor models, and vehicle kinematics. Chapter 4 deals with the problem of optimal navigation in the presence of obstacles. Chapter 5 discusses the problem of reactively navigating. In Chapter 6, border patrolling algorithms are applied to a more general problem of reactively navigating. A method for guidance of a Dubins-like mobile robot is presented in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 introduces and studies a simple biologically-inspired strategy for navigation a Dubins-car. Chapter 9 deals with a hard scenario where the environment of operation is cluttered with obstacles that may undergo arbitrary motions, including rotations and deformations. Chapter 10 presents a novel reactive algorithm for collision free navigation of a nonholonomic robot in unknown complex dynamic environments with moving obstacles. Chapter 11 introduces and examines a novel purely reactive algorithm to navigate a planar mobile robot in densely cluttered environments with unpredictably moving and deforming obstacles. Chapter 12 considers a multiple robot scenario. For the Control and Automation Engineer, this book offers accessible and precise development of important mathematical models and results. All the presented results have mathematically rigorous proofs. On the other hand, the Engineer in Industry can benefit by the experiments with real robots such as Pioneer robots, autonomous wheelchairs and autonomous mobile hospital. - First book on collision free reactive robot navigation in unknown dynamic environments - Bridges the gap between mathematical model and practical algorithms - Presents implementable and computationally efficient algorithms of robot navigation - Includes mathematically rigorous proofs of their convergence - A detailed review of existing reactive navigation algorithm for obstacle avoidance - Describes fundamentals of sliding mode control
Author |
: Dava Sobel |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2010-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802779434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802779433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Longitude by : Dava Sobel
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Author |
: Rajat Acharya |
Publisher |
: Academic Press |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2014-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780128001899 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0128001895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Satellite Navigation by : Rajat Acharya
This book explains the basic principles of satellite navigation technology with the bare minimum of mathematics and without complex equations. It helps you to conceptualize the underlying theory from first principles, building up your knowledge gradually using practical demonstrations and worked examples. A full range of MATLAB simulations is used to visualize concepts and solve problems, allowing you to see what happens to signals and systems with different configurations. Implementation and applications are discussed, along with some special topics such as Kalman Filter and Ionosphere. With this book you will learn: - How a satellite navigation system works - How to improve your efficiency when working with a satellite navigation system - How to use MATLAB for simulation, helping to visualize concepts - Various possible implementation approaches for the technologyThe most significant applications of satellite navigation systems - Teaches the fundamentals of satellite navigation systems, using MATLAB as a visualization and problem solving tool - Worked out numerical problems are provided to aid practical understanding - On-line support provides MATLAB scripts for simulation exercises and MATLAB based solutions, standard algorithms, and PowerPoint slides
Author |
: Donald Launer |
Publisher |
: Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 21 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574092783 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574092782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Navigation Through the Ages by : Donald Launer
Sailors have been navigating the seas for thousands of years, and navigational technology has progressed exponentially during that time. This concise yet comprehensive volume begins with the impressive developments in navigation made by early navigators and follows the art and science of navigation through the ages to their culmination in the huge advances made by our contemporaries. With a focus on the navigational tools invented by each age and civilization, Launer traces the evolution of humankind¿s navigational skills from the Kamal of the Arabs and the Lead-line first used by the Romans to the radio and satellite communication devices available to modern sailors. He pays homage to the Polynesians who, in the absence of a written language were able to pass down their navigational skills through generations, and to the adventurous Vikings, who managed to find their way from Scandinavia to England, Iceland, Greenland and beyond; but he also covers the practical applications of the complex technologies found on most boats today, such as GPS. Generous illustrations help readers envision the tools in use. Navigation Through the Ages will appeal to sailors and lay readers alike¿anyone with an interest in the history of science and the exploration of our world.
Author |
: Martin Jenkins (Science fiction writer) |
Publisher |
: Anchor Books |
Total Pages |
: 134 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0955955386 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780955955389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Science of Navigation by : Martin Jenkins (Science fiction writer)