COMPOUND METHOD FOR AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01S19/38 G01C21/00 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: compound navigation method combines satellite and radar ranging navigation techniques based on ground-based beacons, wherein satellite signals are received both on-board the aircraft and at the row of ground-based beacons, including at ground-based beacons at the landing strip. The ground-based beacons constantly refine base coordinates, determine differential corrections to coordinates and differential corrections to pseudo-ranges, generate a packet of correcting information with said differential corrections, errors in determination thereof, calculated tropospheric refraction data and the refined base coordinates of the ground-based beacons. Based on a request from an aircraft, the ground-based beacon emits, through a distance measurement channel, a signal with correcting information which includes differential corrections only in form of differential corrections to coordinates. The aircraft calculates navigation parameters taking into account correcting information, performs compound data processing and continuous comparative estimation of errors. Upon reaching the aerodrome area and landing, if the error value according to the satellite technique is less, the mode of generating a sequence of request ranging signals of the row of ground-based beacons is switched to a mode for requesting only one ground-based beacon located at the landing strip, wherein on the aircraft, differential corrections in the correcting information are transmitted only in form of differential corrections to pseudo-ranges. Refined coordinates of the aircraft are calculated from the corrected pseudo-ranges.

EFFECT: high reliability and accuracy of determining aircraft coordinates.

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