Book description
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:
Traditional ground-based radio navigation
Satellite systems: GPS, GLONASS, and their augmentations
New inertial systems, including optical rate sensors, micromechanical accelerometers, and high-accuracy stellar-inertial navigators Instrument Landing System and its successors
Integrated communication-navigation systems used on battlefields
Airborne mapping, Doppler, and multimode radars
Terrain matching
Special needs of military aircraft
And much more
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Acknowledgments
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Navigation Equations
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3 Multisensor Navigation Systems
- 3.1 INTRODUCTION
- 3.2 INERTIAL SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS
- 3.3 AN INTEGRATED STELLAR-INERTIAL SYSTEM
- 3.4 INTEGRATED DOPPLER-INERTIAL SYSTEMS
- 3.5 AN AIRSPEED-DAMPED INERTIAL SYSTEM
- 3.6 AN INTEGRATED STELLAR-INERTIAL-DOPPLER SYSTEM
- 3.7 POSITION UPDATE OF AN INERTIAL SYSTEM
- 3.8 NONINERTIAL GPS MULTISENSOR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
- 3.9 FILTERING OF MEASUREMENTS
- 3.10 KALMAN FILTER BASICS
- 3.11 OPEN-LOOP KALMAN FILTER MECHANIZATION
- 3.12 CLOSED-LOOP KALMAN FILTER MECHANIZATION
- 3.13 GPS–INS MECHANIZATION
- 3.14 PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- 3.15 FEDERATED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
- 3.16 FUTURE TRENDS
- PROBLEMS
- 4 Terrestrial Radio-Navigation Systems
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5 Satellite Radio Navigation
- 5.1 INTRODUCTION
- 5.2 THE BASICS OF SATELLITE RADIO NAVIGATION
- 5.3 ORBITAL MECHANICS AND CLOCK CHARACTERISTICS
- 5.4 ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON SATELLITE SIGNALS
- 5.5 NAVSTAR GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
- 5.6 GLOBAL ORBITING NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GLONASS)
- 5.7 GNSS INTEGRITY AND AVAILABILITY
- 5.8 FUTURE TRENDS
- PROBLEMS
- 6 Terrestrial Integrated Radio Communication–Navigation Systems
- 7 Inertial Navigation
- 8 Air-Data Systems
- 9 Attitude and Heading References
- 10 Doppler and Altimeter Radars
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11 Mapping and Multimode Radars
- 11.1 INTRODUCTION
- 11.2 RADAR PILOTAGE
- 11.3 SEMIAUTOMATIC POSITION FIXING
- 11.4 SEMIAUTOMATIC POSITION FIXING WITH SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS
- 11.5 PRECISION VELOCITY UPDATE
- 11.6 TERRAIN FOLLOWING AND AVOIDANCE
- 11.7 MULTIMODE RADARS
- 11.8 SIGNAL PROCESSING
- 11.9 AIRBORNE WEATHER RADAR
- 11.10 FUTURE TRENDS
- PROBLEMS
- 12 Celestial Navigation
- 13 Landing Systems
- 14 Air Traffic Management
- 15 Avionics Interfaces
- References
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Avionics Navigation Systems, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 1997
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Interscience
- ISBN: 9780471547952
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