The SECOR Approach to Coordinate Determination for Ships and Aircraft
J. H. REID · NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of Navigation · 1964
cubic's proposed approach to the problem of determining the coordinates of ships and/or aircraft at such locations as mid-ocean is described. Determination of coordinates by a unified system to two different orders of accuracy is contemplated. The lower accuracies would apply to general navigation, en-route traffic control, air-sea rescue, and the like. The higher accuracies would permit the use of ships and/or aircraft as missile/space-vehicle tracking sites. The basic system concept is described and explained. A number of possible system configurations is discussed. All these system configurations involve the use of the SECOR System techniques developed at Cubic. Certain of the possible configurations also involve the use of Cubic's vehicle-borne phase-comparison angle measurement techniques: these system configurations would be capable of a complete coordinate determination from a single satellite position, rather than from multiple positions.