• In navigation, a state vector is a set of data describing exactly where an object is located in space, and how it is moving. A state vector typically will...
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    astrodynamics and celestial dynamics, the orbital state vectors (sometimes state vectors) of an orbit are Cartesian vectors of position ( r {\displaystyle \mathbf...
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  • Look up vector or vectorial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vector most often refers to: Disease vector, an agent that carries and transmits an infectious...
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    Azimuth (category Navigation)
    There are exceptions: some navigation systems use south as the reference vector. Any direction can be the reference vector, as long as it is clearly defined...
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    Wind triangle (category Air navigation)
    used extensively in dead reckoning navigation. The wind triangle is a vector diagram, with three vectors. The air vector represents the motion of the aircraft...
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    link][dead link] Navigation refers to the determination, at a given time, of the vehicle's location and velocity (the "state vector") as well as its attitude...
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    monochromatic vector mapping displays used by predecessors. 1990: Mazda Eunos Cosmo became the first production car with built-in GPS-navigation system 1991:...
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    The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the...
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    Area navigation (RNAV, usually pronounced as /ˈɑːrnæv/) is a method of instrument flight rules (IFR) navigation that allows aircraft to fly along a desired...
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    An inertial navigation system (INS; also inertial guidance system, inertial instrument) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers)...
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    Rhumb line (category Navigation)
    In navigation, a rhumb line, rhumb (/rʌm/), or loxodrome is an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle, that is, a path with constant...
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    Dead reckoning (category Navigation)
    In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix,...
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  • guidance, navigation, and control of the U.S. Navy's Transit satellite system at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories. TRIAD represented the state of practice...
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    users of the Loran-C navigation system. The idea of geometric DOP is to state how errors in the measurement will affect the final state estimation. This can...
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    and ENCs are the primary means of electronic navigation on cargo ships. Charts can be used in navigation to provide an indication of location once a position...
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  • about the object's state of motion. A guidance system is usually part of a Guidance, navigation and control system, whereas navigation refers to the systems...
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  • shapes in a vector graphics editor. Image maps which do not make their clickable areas obvious risk subjecting the user to mystery meat navigation. Even when...
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    pilot-nav SIDs, radar vector SIDs, and hybrid SIDs. A pilot-nav SID is a SID where the pilot is primarily responsible for navigation along the SID route...
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  • database is the United States Defense Mapping Agency's (DMA) operational navigation chart (ONC) 1:1,000,000 scale paper map series produced by the US, Australia...
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    cases where the dimension of the observation vector y is bigger than the dimension of the state space vector x, the information filter can avoid the inversion...
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  • characters. Unit vector In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1. A unit vector is often denoted...
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    is important in navigation using a compass. The force on an electric charge depends on its location, speed, and direction; two vector fields are used...
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  • from MT Vector. Don Claudio serviced the Manila - Iloilo City route until the 1990s when it was put in service for Roxas City as Negros Navigation acquired...
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    the same state of polarization. The physical electric field, as the real part of the Jones vector, would be altered but the polarization state itself is...
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  • sequence of vectors using self-supervised learning. It uses the encoder-only transformer architecture. BERT dramatically improved the state-of-the-art...
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    The Vector Map (VMAP), also called Vector Smart Map, is a vector-based collection of geographic information system (GIS) data about Earth at various levels...
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  • Etak, Inc. was an independent US-based vendor of automotive navigation system equipment, digital maps, and mapping software. It was founded in 1983. Competitor...
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    of navigation. More generally, the spaces of non-Euclidean geometries can be realized as Riemannian manifolds. An inner product of a real vector space...
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    the cross product of the particle's position vector r (relative to some origin) and its momentum vector; the latter is p = mv in Newtonian mechanics....
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    Required navigation performance (RNP) is a type of performance-based navigation (PBN) that allows an aircraft to fly a specific path between two 3D-defined...
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