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Electronic navigation are forms of
navigation Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, ...
that ships, land vehicles, and people can use, which rely on
technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, scie ...
powered by
electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as describ ...
. Methods of electronic navigation include: * Satellite navigation, satellite navigation systems * Radio navigation, the application of radio frequencies to determining a position * Radar navigation, the use of radar to determine position relative to known objects


See also

* Electronic navigational chart * Robot navigation {{Navigation systems Navigation