Cinetheodolite laser ranging and auto-tracking system
Abstract
An automatic tracking and ranging system, the ATARC Mark III, is described. The system uses a laser on the Contraves cinetheodolite to automatically track and produce a single station (azimuth, elevation, range) solution in real time. System components are considered with attention to the laser transmitter, the laser receiver, operator control and display, data processing, tracking servo and control, range measurement, position error, and AGC. The range accuracy has been measured against other precision surveyed cinetheodolite sites from 7,000 to 23,000 feet, and aircraft targets have been tracked to ranges in excess of 150,000 feet.
- Publication:
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Electro-Optics/Laser Conference and Exposition
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977eol..conf..200S
- Keywords:
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- Automatic Control;
- Cinetheodolites;
- Instrument Errors;
- Laser Ranger/Tracker;
- Range Errors;
- Automatic Gain Control;
- Computer Techniques;
- Data Processing;
- Display Devices;
- Microprocessors;
- Position Errors;
- Real Time Operation;
- Servocontrol;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking