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Navigation by Computer Processing of Marine Radar Images

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

G. L. Austin ,
A. Bellon ,
M. Riley  and
E. Ballantyne
E. Ballantyne
Affiliation:
(McGill Radar Weather Observatory, Montreal)
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Abstract

The advantages of being able to process marine radar imagery in an on-line computer system have been illustrated by study of some navigational problems. The experiments suggest that accuracies of the order of 100 metres may be obtained in navigation in coastal regions using map overlays with marine radar data. A similar technique using different radar imagery of the same location suggests that the pattern-recognition technique may well yield a position-keeping ability of better than 10 metres.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 375 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1985

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