Manual of Offshore Surveying for Geoscientists and Engineers
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 15, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780412805509
First sentence: The timespan between the exclusive use of sextants, celestial navigation and dead reckoning for positioning surveys to the almost complete elimination of these tools in favour of electronic positioning is only about 40 years.