GPS-based vehicle tracking with meteor-burst telemetry

The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) has established the Advanced Meteor-Burst Test Bed (AMBTB) between NISE EAST in Charleston, South Carolina, and Rome Laboratory facilities in Verona, New York. This link has been used to demonstrate multi-media communications, including transmission of text and digitized voice messages. In addition, the AMBTB has been configured for mobile platform tracking using GPS-derived position-location messages and ARPA-sponsored roadmap display software. This paper describes the tracking portion of the AMBTB demonstration and presents preliminary results from a mobile tracking test performed in October 1993.<<ETX>>

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