Celestial based global positioning system

• Main Author: Goh, Jia Man
• Other Authors: Ng Beng Koon
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Pattern recognition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/75508
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Celestial navigation is used in the past to help sailors navigate across the oceans. Using a complicated instrument called the sextant, the sailor is able to measure a star’s altitude with respect to the horizon. With a reference book containing the data of all known stars, a sailor is able to deriv...