DIFFERENTIAL OMEGA NAVIGATION FOR THE U.S. COASTAL CONFLUENCE REGION. PART I: OVERVIEW

Differential Omega is a navigation system based upon the real-time dissemination of Omega corrections for an area around a monitor site at a known location. This investigation of its potential for meeting Navy navigational requirements in the U.S. coastal confluence region (CCR), where traffic patterns tend to converge, finds that a system of 29 base stations -- only one of them new -- would provide CCR coverage with cross-track accuracy of about 1/4 nmi. Station spacing proposed for the Gulf of Mexico provides accuracy of 1/4 nmi or better throughout the fairway area. The publication of a series of volumes on differential Omega is projected. (Author)

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • See also Part II: Requirements, Accuracies, and System Definition; AD-777043/1, Repr. PC, $4.75, Microfiche, $1.45.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Naval Electronics Laboratory Center

    San Diego, CA  United States 
  • Authors:
    • Swanson, E R
    • Adrian, D J
    • Levine, P H
  • Publication Date: 1974-1-2

Media Info

  • Pagination: 16 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00057218
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
  • Report/Paper Numbers: NELC-TR-1905-Part-1 R&D Rept.
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Aug 16 1974 12:00AM