A glance on geographical positioning

Geographical positioning has attracted considerable interest during the last decades due to the potential of such an information for civilian applications as well as for military applications. This paper recalls the main issues and solutions in some localization problems depending on the experimental context. It offers a brief review and evokes recent directions in which studies are led. This paper is an introduction paper for the special session “Advances in geographical positionning” in CAMSAP 2011. It provides a common framework for the research papers which will be presented in the session.