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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Vricon Systems Aktiebolag, Linkoeping, SE;
Vricon Systems Aktiebolag, Linkoeping, SE;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a position determining unit () for a land or sea based object and a method for determining a position. The position determining unit comprises or has access to a three dimensional map () comprising three dimensional geo-referenced position data. The position determining unit comprises further map part selector means () for selecting a part of the three dimensional map () so as to obtain a geo-referenced position associated to the selected part, at least one measurement instrument () arranged to obtain bearing and/or distance information related to the land or sea based object, and a computing and control unit () arranged to relate each obtained bearing and/or distance information to a corresponding obtained geo-referenced position and to determine a geographical position of the land or sea based object based on the bearing and/or distance information and the corresponding obtained geo-referenced positions.