Guidelines Document: Global Positioning System (GPS) as a Real-Time Flight Safety Data Source

Abstract

This guidelines document was written specifically to assist flight safety and other range support personnel in implementing GPS as a real time safety data source. However, it also provides information to the range manager who is involved in transitioning a range to GPS and to range users who are considering incorporating GPS as a tracking source on their test vehicles. This document includes a brief discussion of the overall flight safety test management process and the requirement placed on any metric data source when that source is to be used for real time safety decision making.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA355134

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Collision Avoidance Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Data Transmission
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fire Control Radar
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guidance
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Satellite Constellations
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space