In this article a GPS inspired approach has been developed for TRN systems. The authors investigated whether the acquisition and tracking GPS concept has the potential to be applied in the TRN field with good results. The performance of the proposed system is analyzed using MATLAB simulations.The results …

Description of the evolution of navigation from a restricted field of application (nautical) and executed by a select group of navigators working in almost splendid isolation to a wide field of application (nautical, aeronautical, CRM) executed by groups of people sharing different knowledge and skills …

For the Dutch economy the ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam are crucial. To continue the competitive positions of both ports versus foreign ports, the entrance channels to both ports have to be optimal. That said, it is however a problem. The largest ships calling at these ports have a very deep draught, …

This article discusses the revival of the interferometric positioning experiment with GPS signals that aims at measuring the three-dimensional vector between two stations. Such an experiment was carried out in the late seventies, the early days of the GPS system, almost simultaneously by two competing …

In the nineties the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), faculty Maritime Technology (MT), department of hydromechanics, and the RNLNC, nautical sciences department, led by professor J.A Spaans, explored the possibility of determining the coefficients from full-scale sea trials. As a starting point …

In this contribution the current status and future development of four Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are reviewed. They are the American Global Positioning System (GPS), the Russian Glonass, the European Galileo and the Chinese BeiDou Compass. All four systems offer, or will offer, civil …

In the article: "Base Line Performance of the Low Cost LORADD SP Receiver" also published in "Advances in military navigation technology" the authors discussed the basic performance of the LORADD SP receiver. One of the conclusions was that eLoran in its baseline configuration cannot serve as a back …

Connectivity does not automatically provide NEC, but there is no NEC without connectivity. The integration of UCSs into a C2 network can significantly reduce the amount of voice communication needed to coordinate and synchronize events. The integration of UCSs into an ATMnetwork provides the basis for …

Software-Defined Receivers (SDR) are radio receivers that contain as few hardware components as possible. In such a receiver, the signal processing block then starts as close as possible after the antenna, and is carried out with scripts running on a general-purpose processor contrary to traditional …

The enhancement of GPS technology enables the use of GPS devices not only as navigation and orientation tools, but also as instruments used to capture travelled routes: as sensors that measure activity on a city scale or the regional scale. TU Delft developed a process and database architecture for collecting …