The Cruise Missile is guided by an inertial guidance system aided by an updating technique called Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM). Chance-Vought first proposed the terrain correlation technique in the late 1950's. Since that time TERCOM has evolved into a reliable, accurate, all weather, day and night method of position fixing and updating for cruise missiles. A brief history of TERCOM development will be presented giving results where possible. A description of TERCOM and how is works will be discussed. A snapshot of the present TERCOM status and future planned developments will be addressed.


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    Title :

    Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM): A Cruise Missile Guidance Aid


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Image Processing for Missile Guidance ; 1980 ; San Diego,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1980-12-23





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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