In a way, our options are pretty limited when it comes to finding our way around the ocean. While GPS is fine if you're skipping over the surface of the water, it becomes useless at depths of just a ...

GPS is a powerful navigation technology, but it doesn’t work as well inside buildings, underground or underwater. Now engineers in Japan have developed and tested an alternative technology that uses ...

Marine animals such as mantis shrimp and squid have inspired a new mode of underwater navigation that allows for greater accuracy. Researchers have now developed the technique using imaging equipment ...

U.S. Special Operations Command is upgrading its Special Operations Forces’ personal diving equipment.

With satellite technology advancing fast, and navigation systems reaching an unprecedented sophistication level, we’re witnessing all sorts of cutting-edge product developments on a regular basis. As ...

Scientists have developed an innovative calibration algorithm for the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).This algorithm significantly enhances navigation precision by utilizing acoustic signals from ...

MIT has developed a new navigation system designed for use underwater that could do for underwater wayfinding what GPS has done for travel on and above the surface. GPS doesn’t really penetrate ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The underwater environment may appear to the human eye as a dull-blue, featureless space. However, a vast landscape of polarization patterns appear when viewed through a camera that ...

Underwater backscatter localization could allow for battery-free ocean exploration. The system is akin to subsea GPS and has potential applications in marine conservation, aquaculture, underwater ...

Diver navigation has long presented a challenge. Ensuring diver safety is crucial, and the consequences of not having ...

The underwater landscape is not as dull and featureless as it may seem when viewed through the lens of a camera inspired by animals that live in the sea. A new bio-inspired camera shows polarization ...