GPS-based vehicle tracking with meteor-burst telemetry

Author

Desourdis, Robert I. ; McDonough, Jr Anne K ; Merrill, Steven C. ; Bauman, Ronald M. ; Neumann, David A. ; Lucas, Jeffrey A. ; Spector, Donald ; Warren, Daniel E.

Author_Institution

Sci. Applications Int. Corp., Marlborough, MA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-5 Oct 1994

Firstpage

690

Abstract

The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) has established the Advanced Meteor-Burst Test Bed (AMBTB) between NISE EAST in Charleston, South Carolina, and Rome Laboratory facilities in Verona, New York. This link has been used to demonstrate multi-media communications, including transmission of text and digitized voice messages. In addition, the AMBTB has been configured for mobile platform tracking using GPS-derived position-location messages and ARPA-sponsored roadmap display software. This paper describes the tracking portion of the AMBTB demonstration and presents preliminary results from a mobile tracking test performed in October 1993

Keywords

Global Positioning System; adaptive antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; meteor burst communication; multimedia communication; radio links; radiotelemetry; satellite tracking; Advanced Meteor-Burst Test Bed; GPS-based vehicle tracking; adaptive antennas; beamforming; digitized voice messages; meteor-burst telemetry; mobile platform tracking; mobile tracking test; multi-media communications; position-location messages; roadmap display software; text transmission; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Base stations; Laboratories; Mobile communication; Multimedia communication; Telemetry; Testing; Transponders; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1994. MILCOM '94. Conference Record, 1994 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fort Monmouth, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1828-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1994.473883

Filename

473883