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The timespan between the exclusive use of sextants, celestial navigation and dead reckoning for positioning surveys to the almost complete elimination of these tools in favour of electronic positioning is only about 40 years. In terms of offshore positioning, the achievable accuracy has increased from about a kilometre to approximately 3m in that time.
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Loweth, R.P. (1997). Introduction. In: Manual of Offshore Surveying for Geoscientists and Engineers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5826-8_1
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