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Analysis of Comparisons of Estimations and Measurements of Loran Signal's Propagation Delay due to Irregular Terrain  

Yu, Dong-Hui (부산가톨릭대학교)
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Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing / v.12, no.2, 2011 , pp. 107-112 More about this Journal
Abstract
Several developed countries have been developing their own satellite navigation systems, such as Europe's Galileo, China's BEIDOU, and Japan's QZSS, to cope with clock errors and signal vulnerabilities of GPS. In addition, modernization of Loran, eLoran, for GPS backup has been conducted. In Korea, a dependent navigation system has been required and for GPS backup, the need for utilization of time synchronization infrastructure through the modernization of Loran has been raised. Loran signal uses 100Khz groundwave. A significant factor limiting the ranging accuracy of the Loran signal is the ASF arising from the fact that the groundwave signal is likely to propagate over paths of varying conductivity and topography. Thus, an ASF compensation method is very important for Loran and eLoran navigation. This paper introduces the propagation delay model and then compares and analyzes the estimations from the propagation delay model and measured ASFs.
Keywords
Loran; eLoran; ASF; Spatial ASF; ASF map; GPS backup;
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