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Navigational Planning in Orienteering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Shin Murakoshi
Affiliation:
(Faculty of Education, Shizuoka University, Japan)

Extract

Navigation is a human activity with the aim being to arrive at a predetermined destination. In order to find the way to the destination, the use of current input from the actual environment while travelling is needed as well as stored and organized knowledge of the local geography. Although the knowledge requirement has been studied extensively in the form of cognitive maps or other spatial representation, few studies deal with how the knowledge is used together with the input from the actual environment while navigating.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1997

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