navigation acronyms, abbreviations and definitions - International ...

FEE front end equipment
FEI Federation of Electronics Industries (UK)
Changed name to ‘INTELLECT’ in 2002.
FEM finite element mesh
femtocell Small cellular base station, typically for home or small business ~10 m
Fengyun (also FY) Chinese metsats (means ‘wind and cloud')
FERNS Far East RadioNavigation System
LORAN-C and Chayka system similar to NELS.
FET field effect transistor
FEW few clouds (1-2 oktas)
FF fault free
FFI Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
FFL fixed and flashing light
FFM far field monitor
FFSK fast frequency-shift keying
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FG fog (met)
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee (US)
FGMU Frequency Generation and Modulation Unit (Galileo)
FHA functional hazard assessment/analysis
FHWA Federal Highway Administration (US)
FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations
FIB flying infalatable boat (a RIB under a microlight wing)
FIBE Fully Internet Based ESTB
FIC Flight Information Centre
FID Field Identifying Number (for farming, created in UK in 1995)
FIG Fédération Internationale des Géomètres
International Federation of Surveyors.
FIR Flight Information Region
Firewire Computer connection at up to 400 Mbps (IEEE-1394)
FIS Field Identification System (of farming maps)
FIS Flight Information Service (ATC)
FISG Fishing Industry Safety Group
FISO Flight Information Service Officer
fix A position established by processing information from a number of
navigation observations. Determined without reference to any other
former position.
fix interval Maximum time between fixes.
fix rate The number of fixes per unit time.
FIX_8 Decimetre-level positioning project using a stand-alone GNSS rx
using only free-to-air signals (GJU).
FKP Flächen Korrektur Parameter (in RTK to calculate area corrections)
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