PRECISION POSITION MEASUREMENT FOR SURFACE SHIPS UTILIZING SHORT PULSE MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION

Philip N. Miydal and Arthur J. Hannum

Peer Reviewed

Abstract:	Trilateration computations of radar measurements made between surface ship-based interrogator-responsors and shore-based transponders can be used to obtain better than two-foot positional accuracy at line-of-sight ranges of the order of five miles. Use of nanosecond pulses provides elimination of the usual range errors caused by multipath reflections from sea surface and ship's superstructure. A description of currently available hardware to accomplish these positional accuracies is presented.
Published in:	NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Volume 17, Number 1
Pages:	67 - 75
Cite this article:	Miydal, Philip N., Hannum, Arthur J., "PRECISION POSITION MEASUREMENT FOR SURFACE SHIPS UTILIZING SHORT PULSE MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION", NAVIGATION: Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 1970, pp. 67-75.
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