Reflections on geometry and navigation

Connection Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 5-21

  Cheng, Ken ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axes; Geometry; Global; Local; Modularity; Navigation

Indexed keywords

AXES; COMPUTATIONAL PROCESS; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; GLOBAL; LOCAL; MODULARITY; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

ANIMALS; NAVIGATION;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 24144496213     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: 13600494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090500138077     Document Type: Article

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