Landmass Fly-Around Boundary Generation

Abstract

A process for generating fly-around boundaries for use by projectiles such as missiles or the like which facilitates the steps of providing original cartographic data representative of at least one geographical position on a landmass and providing a predetermined value for the spacing of a fly-around boundary from the geographical position; digitizing the original data and creating a landmass model in a format which includes latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the geographical position; inputting the digitized data and the predetermined value into a data analyzer; generating new data representative of the fly-around boundary using the data analyzer based on the predetermined value and the land mass model, preferably by offsetting fly-around segments from the landmass model a distance equal to the predetermined value; and providing a navigational control for receiving the new data and using the new data for controlling the flight path of the missile along the boundary.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 21, 1998
Accession Number
ADD019347

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey Roy
  • Karen Benevides
  • Steven W. Tomasi

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Diagrams
  • Errors
  • Flight
  • Flight Paths
  • Geographic Regions
  • Guidance
  • Inventions
  • Navigation
  • Parallel Orientation
  • Projectiles
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Standoff

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Geodesy
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers