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1989 National Technical Meeting Proceedings

January 23-26, 1989
San Mateo, California

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SESSION I: TRACKING AND MONITORING SYSTEMS 1
APPLICATION OF INERTIAL NAVIGATION IN MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS - Michael Biche 3
LORAN-C VEHICLE TRACKING IN DETROIT’S PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCH SYSTEM -
Laurence J. Cortland 9
PARACHUTE JUMP TESTING OF PORTABLE GPS RECEIVERS - Paul Braisted 15
GPS SIGNAL AVAILABILITY IN LAND MOBILE APPLICATIONS - E. O Frye 25
A VEHICLE TRACKING AND MONITORING SYSTEM INCLUDING DIGITAL DISPATCH AND DRIVER GUIDANCE - Walter Zavoll, Kenneth Milnes, Peter Ruddock, Wal Chow and Wrex Beaman 35

SESSION II: INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT OF GPS 41
AN ASSESSMENT OF IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON THE GPS USER - Paul S. Jorgensen 43
EVALUATION OF SCHEMES TO MEASURE SATELLITE RANGE ERRORS BY GIC GROUND MONITORING SEGMENT - Young C. Lee 47
THE CASE FOR BOTH RAIN AND GIC WORKING TOGETHER: THE ULTIMATE
SOLUTION TO THE GPS INTEGRITY PROBLEM -
R. Grover Brown 53
GPS MONITOR ALARM LIMITS FOR NONPRECISION APPROACHES
- Robert Loh 57

SESSION III: GPS OVERVIEW AND UPDATE 63
PROGRAM OVERVIEW: GPS JOINT PROGRAM OFFICE - Lt. Col. Torn Jones 65
GPS SURVIVABILITY - Cdr. Alan Burgess 79
SPACE APPLICATIONS OF GPS - G. B. Green and P. Axelrad 89

SESSION IV: EQUIPMENT TRENDS 105
BACK TO BASICS: SCHEMATA FOR AN AUTOMATED REPEATING SEXTANT (ARS) -
Peter C. Boulay 107
ASHTECH XII - A NEW GPS TECHNOLOGY - Javad Ashjaee and James Collins 113
EQUIPMENT AND CAPABILITY TRENDS IN LORAN-C RNAV - Walter N. Dean 117

SESSION V: DIFFERENTIAL GPS 123
EXTENDED DIFFERENTIAL GPS - Alison Brown 125
EXTENDING THE DOP ALGORITHM TO CODELESS KINEMATIC DIFFERENTIAL GPS -
Peter V. W. Loomis & James Reynolds 137

SESSION VI: MAP TECHNOLOGY 147
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS - THE FLEET-TRAK AND FLITE-TRAK
AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION SYSTEMS -
A. William Marchall 149
DATABASE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR IFR CERTIFIED EARTH-REFERENCED NAVIGATION SYSTEMS - Dale E. Johnson 153

SESSION VII: HEADING AND ATTITUDE 159
A SURVEILLANCE 3600 TELEVISION ORIENTATION AND RANGING SYSTEM AS AN AID TO COLLISION AVOIDANCE - Sidney Feldman and George G. Barton 161
ATTITUDE ESTIMATION USING GPS
- J. Rath and P. Ward 169

SESSION VIII: MULTISENSOR INTEGRATION 179
MULTISENSOR INTEGRATED NAVIGATION SYSTEM - Joe N. Portney and Ray W. Breslau 181
LOW-COST GPS/IN5 GUIDED STAND-OFF WEAPON STUDY - Tysen Mueller, Jerry Sun,
Fred Karkalik and Ken Kessler 195
PROTOTYPE TESTING OF AN INTEGRATED DOPPLER/GPS NAVIGATION SYSTEM -
James L. Maida 205
OMEGA - GPS INTEROPERABILITY FOR THE LONG HAUL - Henry Schlachta 215

SESSION IX: INERTIAL SENSORS AND SYSTEMS 221
FIBER OPTIC GYRO/SILICON ACCELEROMETER INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT
TEST RESULTS
- A. Matthews and M. Weintraub 223
LOW COST QUBIK IMU FOR INTEGRATION WITH GPS, OMEGA, LORAN-C, & SDI SYSTEMS - Melvin M. Morrison 233
COST-EFFECTIVE, HIGH-ACCURACY INERTIAL NAVIGATION - A. Matthews and H. Welter 243
PROGRESS TOWARD AN INERTIAL GRAD FIBER OPTIC GYROSCOPE - R. Y. Liu, R. C. Dankwort,
T. F. El-Wailly and N. S. Bielas 251
THE MULTI-FUNCTION RLG SYSTEM COMES OF AGE: A TECHNICAL UPDATE -
Michael Hadfield and Ed Wheeler 257
REGISTRATION LIST 267