US military navigation terminology and techniques

[whitecity]

Help please.

I'm preparing a paper that requires all 'i's are dotted and all 't's are crossed.

Can anyone provide a bit of assistance in confirming or explaining some of the US specific terminology I've come across. I'm not looking for a lesson in navigation, just matching US terminology to various techniques.

Please PM me if you can help, and I'll explain all.

Many thanks,
merkator

 

[California_Tanker]

Go ahead, send me what you've got. I don't think there's much "odd" US terminology, though "resection" instead of "triangulation" is one that comes to mind.

NTM

 

[ugly]

Azimuth instead of bearing or direction and lost instead of Locstat.

 

[putteesinmyhands]

Possibly the most significant difference between US and UK is the datum used for altitude comparison. The US uses mean sea level data from 21 US locations plus 5 in Canada, averaged over 19 years. UK uses that at Newlyn. Apparently the US is in the process of re-levelling the country following the adoption of a standard system.

As far as concepts are concerned, have a look at this:
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/Geodesy4Layman/geo4lay.pdf

A level is known in the US as a transit though, to the best of my knowledge, they still use it for levelling, rather than transiting.

I seem to recall that they have a strange term for "ranging rods" as well.