Voorbeelden van dead reckoning

• It goes without saying that mere dead reckoning, entirely unchecked by astronomical observations, would be insufficient for scientific purposes. 

• The distance which we traveled day by day was at first determined by dead reckoning, to be verified later by observations for latitude. 

• The position of the ship was found, and marked on the chart, and the "dead reckoning" compared with the result obtained by calculation. 

• The sketch was made solely by dead reckoning. 

• We had been six days out without an observation, and our dead reckoning naturally was uncertain. 

• The main advantages of dead reckoning location are its low cost and its easy implementation and exploitation.

• Dead reckoning is usually performed by odometry, which involves the integration of wheel rotation increments over time to estimate the position of a vehicle.

• This experiment is an illustration of the drawback of dead reckoning.