A unified treatment of the principles and practices of modern navigation sensors and systems, for engineers and systems analysts who design, build, and maintain such systems, and for pilots and operations staff who use them. Essentially rewritten from the 1969 edition to encompass such innovations as navigation satellites, the decrease in size and cost and the increase in speed and memory of computers, new algorithms that mix the outputs of several sensors to produce a best estimate of position and velocity, and the increased use of avionics on aircraft so that navigation is now often only one of several subsystems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
An indispensable resource for all those who design, build, manage, and operate electronic navigation systems
Avionics Navigation Systems, Second Edition, is a complete guide to the art and science of modern electronic navigation, focusing on aircraft. It covers electronic navigation systems in civil and military aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, and manned spacecraft. It has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include all of the major advances that have occurred since the publication of the classic first edition. It covers the entire field from basic navigation principles, equations, and state-of-the-art hardware to emerging technologies. Each chapter is devoted to a different system or technology and provides detailed information about its functions, design characteristics, equipment configurations, performance limitations, and directions for the future. You'll find everything you need to know about:
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Traditional ground-based radio navigation
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Satellite systems: GPS, GLONASS, and their augmentations
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New inertial systems, including optical rate sensors, micromechanical accelerometers, and high-accuracy stellar-inertial navigators Instrument Landing System and its successors
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Integrated communication-navigation systems used on battlefields
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Airborne mapping, Doppler, and multimode radars
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Terrain matching
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Special needs of military aircraft
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And much more