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Integrated Communications and Navigation Terminal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

M. A. Beach ,
P. G. Mattos  and
M. Chau
M. A. Beach
Affiliation:
(Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, and INMOS Limited)
P. G. Mattos
Affiliation:
(Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, and INMOS Limited)
M. Chau
Affiliation:
(Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, and INMOS Limited)
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Abstract

The mobile radio communications industry has recently witnessed a new demand for terminal equipment which can provide both communications and position reporting capabilities on a global scale–for example, the automatic monitoring of secure cargoes during international transportation. Thus, there is much interest in the development of land mobile satellite terminal equipment in the form of a single integrated unit which can economically provide both of these facilities. In this paper the development of such a unit is considered using the Inmarsat-c satellite communications service and the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS), with extension to GLONASS possible in a receive-only version.

Keywords

1. Satellite Navigation.2. Communications.3. Land Navigation.
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 67 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1991

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