"Situational and spatial awareness is still very much a human activity"
- Air Vice-Marshal Kym Osley AM, CSC, FAIN, Executive Secretary, Australian Institute of Navigation

"Autonomous navigation will remainthe key trend in next two decades"
- Dr. Capt. Hesham M. Helal, Secretary General 0f IAIN, President of AIN and Dean of Maritime Postgraduate Studies Institute, AASTMT

"Navigation as a skill will be confined to leisure sailors"
- John Johnson-Allen MA FRHistS FRIN MIoS, Chairman, Institute of Seamanship

"I prefer users and professionals with natural intelligence over those with artificial intelligence"
- Ing. Jiri Svaton

DEM delivers better approximate AHD heights on public record
Jonathon Smith and Dr Volker Janssen
This paper outlines how a state-wide Digital Elevation Model (DEM) has been used to deliver better approximate Australian Height Datum (AHD) heights, yielding a homogeneous dataset of known provenance and verifiable quality across New South Wales, Australia ... [more]

Generalized orthogonalization an elegant solution to the least squares problem
Prof. Joël van Cranenbroeck
The generalized orthogonalization does not require the formation of the normal equations and is therefore numerically more stable than the conventional method ... [more]