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.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Navigation; Navigation systems; Omega navigation system; Radio navigation; Very low frequency
• Old TRIS Terms: Omega navigation; Vlf navigation
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

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