International Satellite Radionavigation and Radiolocation: Choosing Among the Options

G. V. Kinal

Abstract:	The evolution to a global civil communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) system could be expedited by deliberate steps taken to exploit and enhance areas of technical commonality between mobile satellite communications systems such as INMARSAT1s and the GPS and possibly GLONASS systems, and by organizational liaison where appropriate. In this paper, INMARSAT defines a possible evolutionary program for the introduction and adoption of a global civil integrated CNS system. The approach is based on elements of commonality with GPS. This paper reviews how and why INMARSAT has taken consideration of GPS in the development of its own program, and it discusses some possibilities for co-operation and coordination with GPS.
Published in:	Proceedings of the International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1988) September 19 - 23, 1988 The Broadmoor Hotel Colorado Spring, CO
Pages:	101 - 106
Cite this article:	Kinal, G. V., "International Satellite Radionavigation and Radiolocation: Choosing Among the Options," Proceedings of the International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1988), Colorado Spring, CO, September 1988, pp. 101-106.
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