NAVIGATION AT THE PRIME MERIDIAN

G. Gebel and B. Matthews

Peer Reviewed

Abstract: An experiment ws conducted to establish the relation between the longitude referene of the Navy Navigation Satellite System and the international longitude reference at Greenwich. If the Greenwich Geodetic Meridian is to have 0 degrees longitude in the Transit Coordinate System, the user must add 5.64 to all longitude measurements.
Published in: NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Volume 18, Number 2
Pages: 141 - 146
Cite this article: Gebel, G., Matthews, B., "NAVIGATION AT THE PRIME MERIDIAN", NAVIGATION: Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 1971, pp. 141-146.
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