A Software Package for Estimating Time Differences for Artillery Sound Ranging Applications.

Abstract

The Fortran program entitled 'Time Differences Estimator Program' is presented and documented. The program will accept a given number of microphone signals each containing a specified number of data points from a fixed data format and determine the time differences between signal bursts that appear within the record length. It also gives a measure of reliability to associate with the time differences and provides, through a least square error procedure, a consistent set of relative times that can be used as input data to a position estimator. Results from using the program on a number of recorded signals from C4 explosions approximately 12 km away are presented showing target location errors of approximately 200 meters. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA079916

Entities

People

  • Lonnie C. Ludeman

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Comb Filters
  • Computations
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Cross Correlation
  • Estimators
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Domain
  • Microphones
  • Miss Distance
  • New Mexico
  • Reliability
  • Security

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  • Software Engineering