A Portable Impact Location System

Don Guilford and Miguel A. Cardoza

Abstract:	In an effort to provide the US Navy’s Strategic Programs Office with a low-cost, flexible system for scoring test Fleet Ballistic Missile impacts in the open ocean, a team comprised of the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin, Palisades Geophysical Institute, Inc. and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory developed a system called PILS, for Portable Impact Location System. PILS utilizes expendable GPS equipped sonobuoys, deployed from an aircraft in the impact area. This paper provides some background and describes the system and operation.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (2001) June 11 - 13, 2001 Albuquerque, NM
Pages:	824 - 828
Cite this article:	Guilford, Don, Cardoza, Miguel A., "A Portable Impact Location System," Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (2001), Albuquerque, NM, June 2001, pp. 824-828.
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