THE LOCATION BY MEANS OF A SINGLE CAMERA, OF A PROJECTILE WITH A KNOWN LINE OF FIRE

Abstract

This report gives the details of a reduction procedure for converting the photographic measurements of a rocket in flight into ballistic data pertinent to the rocket trajectory. It opens with a careful description of the geometric problem involved. Transformations between the conventional coordinate systems at the camera are described; by means of these, the formulas for the projectile's position are written down. The methods are essentially vectorial throughout. The report concludes with a suggested computation scheme and an example.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 05, 1947
Accession Number
AD0805132

Entities

People

  • A. P. Morse

Organizations

  • Ballistic Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Computations
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Guided Missiles
  • Line Of Fire
  • Line Of Sight
  • Measurement
  • Photographic Images
  • Projectiles
  • Rocket Trajectories
  • Rockets
  • Standards
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Theoretical Analysis.
  • ballistics.