• DocumentCode
    924088
  • Title

    Vehicular Positioning System

  • Author

    Gates, Harvey M. ; Perkins, Michael T.

  • Author_Institution
    The BDM Corporation, 4800 Riverbend Road, Boulder, Colorado
  • Volume
    1
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    3/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    17
  • Lastpage
    19
  • Abstract
    There is a US Army vehicular positioning program under way called MAFIS (Mobile Automated Field Instrumentation System). Though its use is intended for full scale battlefield operational testing of mobile ground units and aircraft systems, the implications for extending this technology toward commercial aplications are the thrust of this paper.
  • Keywords
    Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Global Positioning System; Instruments; Laser beams; Military computing; Missiles; Mobile computing; Radio navigation; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-8985
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAES.1986.5005068
  • Filename
    5005068