Land Navigation Course
This course equips participants with essential land navigation skills using maps and compasses, focusing on route planning, bearing application, and safe navigation in challenging conditions without GPS reliance.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
The Land Navigation Course teaches practical map and compass skills for planning and completing safe, efficient routes in the field without relying on GPS. You'll learn to interpret topographic maps, work out distances and elevations, select wise routes, and apply bearings, pacing, resection, and backbearings. Additionally, you'll gain experience in recording sites for future visits, handling poor visibility conditions, and making smart choices to stay on track and avoid getting lost.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Accurate map reading: convert detailed topographic maps into straightforward, secure paths.
- Compass expertise: capture, pursue, and reverse bearings with practical precision in the field.
- Survey route planning: create effective, minimal-risk trails connecting sampling locations.
- Dependable site logging: record positions, drawings, and images for simple follow-up sampling.
- On-site safety choices: handle mist, night-time, and deviations from path with assurance.
Suggested summary
Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.What our students say
FAQs
Who is Elevify? How does it work?
Do the courses have certificates?
Are the courses free?
What is the course workload?
What are the courses like?
How do the courses work?
What is the duration of the courses?
What is the cost or price of the courses?
What is an EAD or online course and how does it work?
PDF Course