THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF LORAN-C RADIO SIGNALS TO THE PRECISION LOCATION AND TRACKING OF REMOTE OBJECTS

A PRACTICAL MEANS FOR USING EXISTING LONG RANGE RADIO NAVIGATION SIGNALS (OMEGA AND LORAN-C) TO DETERMINE THE POSITION OF REMOTE OBJECTS IS DESCRIBED. IT CONSISTS OF MOUNTING A SMALL RADIO RETRANSMITTER ON THE OBJECT. THE RETRANSMITTER DOES NOTHING MORE THAN RELAY THE NAVIGATION SIGNAL TO SOME REMOTE POINT WHERE THE MORE COMPLEX MEASUREMENTS ARE MADE TO DETERMINE THE OBJECT'S POSITION. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO INDICATE THE PROSPECTS OF APPLYING THIS PRINCIPLE TO THE TRACKING OF OBJECTS OTHER THAN WEATHER BALLOONS. THE MOST IMMEDIATE APPLICATION IS THAT OF TRACKING A FEW SELECTED OBJECTS. EXAMPLES ARE A MOTOR VEHICLE, A MAN ON FOOT, OR A CARTON OF GOODS. THE ULTIMATE APPLICATION IS A SYSTEM-WIDE NETWORK OF UTILITY WHICH WILL PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF A MULTITUDE OF REMOTE OBJECTS SUCH AS HAS BEEN SUGGESTED FOR A PUBLIC URBAN LOCATOR SYSTEM (PULSE). /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  School of Engineering
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506

  Carnahan Conf Elec Crime Cntrmeas Proc

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• Authors:
  • Beukers, J M
  • Merada, J I
• Publication Date: 1970-4-16

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Motor vehicles; Pedestrians; Remote sensing; Tracking systems; Transmission
• Uncontrolled Terms: Tracking
• Old TRIS Terms: Radio transmission
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225735
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: pp 137-140
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1970 12:00AM