navigation acronyms, abbreviations and definitions - International ...

NAVAREA Sea area for GMDSS radio navigation warnings
NAVCEN Navigation Centre (USCG)
NAVD North American Vertical Datum
Naviair Danish air navigation service provider
navigation The process of planning, recording and controlling the movement of a
craft from one place to another (IMO).
NAVSOL navigation solution
NAVSTAR NAVigation Satellites with Timing And Ranging (GPS)
NAVTEX Navigational Information Telex Services
NavWar NAVigation WARfare (includes military GPS programme)
NAWC Naval Air Warfare Centre (USN - Patuxent River)
NBDP narrow band direct printing (eg GMDSS and NAVTEX)
NCAA Norwegian Civil Aviation Administration
NCAGS Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NATO)
NCAP (Euro) New Car Assessment Programme (Brussels-based)
NCF National Coaching Foundation (trading arm is scUK)
NCF Navigation Control Facility (Galileo)
NCI National Coastwatch Institution (UK)
NCP National Contact Point (eg for FP6)
NCP National Contingency Plan
NCR negative climb rate (TAWS alert)
NCS Network Co-ordinating Station (Inmarsat)
NCS network communication system
NCW network centric warfare
NCW non-coherent continuous wave (transmission)
ND navigation display
NDB nondirectional beacon
NDC National Document Centre (Greek AGI)
NDGPS Nationwide DGPS (US)
NDPB non-departmental public body (UK)
NE normalised error (for GNSS compares with HDOP = 4)
NEAN North European ADS-B Network (EU/EUROCONTROL)
NEAP North-European ADS-B Application Project (EU)
NEC network-enabled capability
NECSA Navigational Electronic Chart System Association
NELS Northwest European LORAN-C System
NEMO Navigation system analysis suite for European Maritime Operations
GLAs/Nottingham Scientific (UK).
NEMS nano-electromechanical system (technology beyond MEMS)
NEOSIT navigation/electro-optic sensor integration
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