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True north
Known as:
True north (disambiguation)
, True north (geography)
, True south
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True north (geodetic north) is the direction along the earth's surface towards the geographic North Pole. True geodetic north differs from magnetic…
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2018
2018
Design and construction of a high resolution, portable and low-cost positioner by a star tracking system
Meysam Izadmehr
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Mehdi Khakian Ghom
2018
Corpus ID: 119360168
In normal observation procedures, the position of the observer is specified by GPS and celestial positions of an object will be…
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2012
2012
Installation and Adjustment Procedure for the Portable Pier and PlaneWave CDK 17 Telescope
J. Shattuck
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Vincent A Schmidt
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Pawlos Campbell
2012
Corpus ID: 107475055
Abstract : The purpose of this document is to highlight the initial steps necessary to mechanically set up and configure the…
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2010
2010
Optoelectronic design parameters of interferometric fiber optic gyroscope with LiNbO 3 having north finder capability and earth rotation rate measurement
O. Çelikel
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F. Sametoğlu
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H. Sozeri
2010
Corpus ID: 53604478
North finder capability gyroscopes supply the reference north azimuth information to the relevant base system. This paper covers…
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2009
2009
Pragmatism and Cooperation: Canadian-American Defence Activities in the Arctic, 1945-1951
P. Kikkert
2009
Corpus ID: 127212444
2007
2007
Paleomagnetism of the Datong monogenetic volcanoes in China: paleodirection and paleointensity during the middle to early Brunhes Chron
Y. Yamamoto
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H. Tsunakawa
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J. Shaw
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M. Kono
2007
Corpus ID: 54952544
Paleomagnetic measurements were conducted on Datong volcanic rocks from China, which are thought to have formed in the mid to…
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Seventeenth-century Scotland: the musical sources
W. Edwards
2007
Corpus ID: 190844843
Here I offer a concise but comprehensive survey of primary seventeenth-century Scots musical sources, both traced and untraced…
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2003
2003
Farthest North Polar Bear ( Ursus maritimus )
Rinie van Meurs
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J. Splettstoesser
2003
Corpus ID: 130738006
On 5 August 2001, while on a cruise with tourists from Longyearbyen, Svalbard, to the Geographic North Pole, we sighted a lone…
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1998
1998
Offshore geoacoustic inversions using sounds from land vehicle activity
G. D’Spain
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W. Kuperman
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L. Dorman
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L. P. Berger
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W. Hodgkiss
1998
Corpus ID: 123262973
Land‐based vehicle activity can be clearly detected and tracked by underwater acoustic sensors located outside the surf zone…
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Review
1987
Review
1987
Handbook of Studies on Schizophrenia. Part 1: Epidemiology, Aetiology and Clinical Features. Part 2: Management and Research
J. Cutting
1987
Corpus ID: 71643439
book is to form one of a series, as its subtitle membrane changes. The recognition of artemight suggest. The aim of the book is…
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1967
1967
NOTES ON EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE AND APPARATUS: A sun compass for the direct determination of geographic north
D. Stone
1967
Corpus ID: 97505346