ATRAN Terrain Sensing Guidance-The Grand-Daddy System
Richard F. Koch, Donald C. Evans · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1980
ATRAN was the pioneer terrain sensing guidance system developed in the 1950 era and deployed in Europe on the Air Force's mobile, ground launched TM-76A MACE cruise missile in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The background, principles and technology are described for this system which was the forerunner of todays modern autonomous standoff terrain sensing guided weapons.