An existing tracking radar was improved for use as a real-time flight path monitor for Automatic Landing FLight EXperiment (ALFLEX). The operational difficulty of the tracking radar was decreased and a data transfer function was added. Its function and performance were confirmed by flight testing, and the devices that were exchanged or added worked normally. Absolute position correction of the tracking radar was required to measure the flight path of an aircraft. Calibration data using DGPS positioning during flight testing were gathered easily and precisely. The bias component of calibration data is installed in the radar device and real-time positioning data were corrected.
Performance of a Tracking Radar After Improvement and Correction Using DGPS Positioning
1996
18 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Air Transportation , Global Navigation Systems , Flight paths , Tracking radar , Position sensing , Air navigation , Trajectory measurement , Position errors , Calibration , Real time , Bias , Radar tracking , Position(Location) , Data transmission , Flight tests , Foreign technology , DGPS(Differential Global Positioning System) , Differential Global Positioning System , ALFLEX(Automatic Landing Flight Experiment)
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