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  2. Category:Navigational aids - Wikipedia

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    Navigational aids (also known as aids to navigation) include all forms of signal, marks and guidance equipment used to facilitate navigation. The term is most commonly used in the context of marine and fluvial navigation, but it can be used to refer to navigation assistance system for aerial navigation.

  3. Radio beacon - Wikipedia

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    The most basic radio-navigational aid used in aviation is the non-directional beacon or NDB. It is a simple low- and medium-frequency transmitter used to locate airway intersections and airports and to conduct instrument approaches, with the use of a radio direction finder located on the aircraft. The aviation NDBs, especially the ones marking ...

  4. Radio Navigational Aids - Wikipedia

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    The Radio Navigational Aids (Publication 117) publication contains a detailed list of selected worldwide radio stations that provide services to the mariner. [1] The publication is divided into chapters according to the nature of the service provided by the radio stations. [ 1 ]

  5. Navigational aid - Wikipedia

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    A navigational aid (NAVAID), also known as aid to navigation (ATON), is any sort of signal, markers or guidance equipment which aids the traveler in navigation, usually nautical or aviation travel. Common types of such aids include lighthouses , buoys , fog signals , and day beacons .

  6. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

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    In this case, Electronic Travel Aid are developed to target the needs of visual impaired individuals for obstacle identification as well as navigation of the surrounding to enhance mobility. [1] Not only GPS systems, there are other approaches like infrared sensors, ultrasonic sensors as well as optical technologies like cameras that are ...

  7. GPS for the visually impaired - Wikipedia

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    It is based on an information server concept, which has user-centered and task oriented approach for solving information needs of special needs groups. In the system, the Information Server is an interpreter between the user and Internet information systems. It collects, filters and integrates information from different sources and delivers ...

  8. Fremont, Waupaca County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Location of Fremont, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 20.1 square miles (52.0 km 2). 19.1 square miles (49.4 km 2) of it is land and 1.0 square miles (2.6 km 2) of it (4.94%) is water.

  9. Wisconsin Department of Health Services - Wikipedia

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    When the federal government entered the field of public welfare during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Wisconsin had already pioneered a number of programs, including aid to children and pensions for the elderly (enacted in 1931). The Wisconsin Children’s Code, enacted in 1929, was considered one of the most comprehensive in the nation.