Title :
Submeter navigation grid system concept
Author :
Dowdle, John ; Flueckiger, Karl
Author_Institution :
Charles Stark Draper Lab. Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a concept for a system that provides the capability for accurate targeting and weapon delivery within a prescribed geographic context. This system, entitled submeter navigation grid, defines a geographic region that enables targeting platforms to perform relative navigation to the centimetre level. Ultimately, targeting information is delivered to an appropriate tactical platform, and the system enables precision guidance of this platform to the identified target coordinates. The submeter navigation grid consists of both airborne and land based components with communications links between them. Of note is that the submeter navigation grid utilizes a pseudo-lite as an electronic counter-counter measure against a potential jamming threat
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; electronic countermeasures; jamming; optical sensors; radionavigation; synthetic aperture radar; telecommunication links; weapons; GPS; SAR; airborne based components; centimetre level; communications links; electronic counter-counter measure; geographic region; identified target coordinates; jamming threat; land based components; optical targeting; precision guidance; pseudo-lite; relative navigation; submeter navigation grid; tactical platform; targeting information; targeting platforms; user reference equipment; weapon delivery targeting; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Jamming; L-band; Laboratories; Navigation; Optical receivers; Sensor systems; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Weapons;
Conference_Titel :
Position Location and Navigation Symposium, IEEE 2000
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5872-4
DOI :
10.1109/PLANS.2000.838313