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-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

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

Slant Range

Sonar

Survey

SWaP-C

T

Thermocline

Time of Flight (ToF)

Topology

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)

Visual Line of Sight (VLOS)

Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR)

Voronoi Diagrams

W

Waypoint

World Magnetic Model (WMM)

Y

Yaw