Glossary Terms

A

Absolute Position

Accelerometer

Accuracy

Acoustic

Acoustic Compass

AHRS

Altitude

Angular Random Walk

Antenna

Antenna Boresight

Artificial Intelligence

ATP

Attenuation

Automatic Direction Finder (ADF)

Autonomous Vehicles

AUV

Azimuth

B

Bandwidth

Base Station

Beacon

Beamforming

Bearing

Bias Instability

BMS

BVLOS

C

C/A Code

Carrier

Carrier Phase Ambiguity

Cartography

Checksum

Communications Protocol

Compass

Constellation

Coordinate

Coordinate Systems

Coordinated Universal Time

Coriolis Effect

Course

D

Dead-Reckoning

DEM (Digital Elevation Model)

Destination

Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)

Doppler

Drift

Drone

DTP

DVL

E

E3

ECEF

Elevation

EMC

EMI

Ephemeris

F

FOG

FPGA

G

Geodetic

Georeferencing

Geospatial Data

GNSS

GPS

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS)

Gyrocompass

Gyrocompassing

Gyroscope

H

HAPS

Heading

I

IMO

IMU

Initial Bias

INS

Instrument Landing System (ILS)

Interferometry

Inverted USBL

Ionospheric Delay

K

Kalman Filtering

Kinematics

L

Layering

Lidar / LiDAR

LQE

M

Magnetic Variation (MAGVAR)

Magnetometer

MEMS

Mission

Multi Constellation

Multi Frequency

Multipath Error

N

Navigation

NMEA

Noise

Noise Density

Non-Directional Beacon (NDB)

Non-mining

O

Orientation

P

Performance Grade

Pinger

Pitch

Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT)

Post-Processed Kinematics (PPK)

Precise Point Positioning (PPP)

Precision

Protocol

R

Radar

Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCM)

Random Walk

Range

Ranging

Raster Data

Real-Time Kinematics (RTK)

Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS)

Receiver

Reference Station

Relative Position

Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)

Resolution

Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG)

Robot Operating System (ROS)

Roll

Root Mean Square (RMS)

Rover

S

Sagnac Effect

Sampling Rate

Satellite Compass

Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS)

Scale Error

Scale Factor

Scale Factor Stability

Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM)

Sensor

Sensor Networks

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

Slant Range

Sonar

Survey

SWaP-C

T

Thermocline

Time of Flight (ToF)

Topology

Total Positioning Station (TPS)

Tow-Fish

Track

Transponder

Trilateration

Tropospheric Delay

U

UAS

UAV

UGV

Ultra High Frequency (UHF)

Underground Positioning

USBL

USBL-Squared

USV

UTC

V

Vector Data

Vehicle of Opportunity (VOO)

Velocity Random Walk

Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM)

Very High Frequency (VHF)

Vibrating Wire Piezometer (VWP)

Visual Line of Sight (VLOS)

Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR)

Voronoi Diagrams

W

Waypoint

World Magnetic Model (WMM)

Y

Yaw