Fibre optic gyrocompass
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Fibre optic gyrocompass
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A fibre optic gyrocompass is a compass and instrument of navigation. It is sometimes part of a ship's set of compasses, which also include a conventional gyrocompass and a magnetic compass under SOLAS requirements for the ship to be fitted with compass systems. The compass comprises a fibre optic gyroscope sensor that operates on the principle of the Sagnac effect which links to a computer and then locates north. This in turn links to a compass readout to provide a heading. It has very high reli
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Compass used in ships
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_optic_gyrocompass
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2023-11-27T14:41:18Z
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