The International Omega Association: A Global Community Using a Global Resource

Max H. Carpenter, Frank C. Sakran Jr.

Abstract:	Tke Omega Navigation System is a very low frequency radio service comprising eight ground-based transmitting sites and associated control and monitoring stations. Omega offers a number of unique attributes not shared by otker navigational technologies. Its technical benefits include virtually continuous availability and worldwide coverag?, an exceptional degree of signal redundancy, ocean penetrahon, and freedom from signal blockage or shadowing from terrain, vehicle body, or man-made structures. Unique nontechnical ckaractetiitics include its multinational operation and sponsorship, civilian character, international acceptance, and remarkably low operating cost. The International Omega Association (IOA) was formed in 1975 to foster information evchange between individuals and orgnnizations concerned with the Omega System. Like the Omega System, the IOA is international in composition and diverse in its membership. Thti diversity has proven a major strength in that it brings together a mix of system users, operators, manufacturers, and managers, as well nS academic and scientific workers. The growtk of the IOA over the past fifteen years is recounted; its activities, projects, and publications described; and its relationship witk other professional societies such as the Institute of Navigation explained.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 1990 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 23 - 25, 1990 Princess Resort Hotel San Diego, CA
Pages:	113 - 118
Cite this article:	Carpenter, Max H., Sakran, Frank C., Jr., "The International Omega Association: A Global Community Using a Global Resource," Proceedings of the 1990 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, January 1990, pp. 113-118.
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