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Device for and method of geolocation

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A device and method of geolocating a transmitter. First and second receivers, in motion, receive a signal from the transmitter. Digitizers in the receivers digitize the signal. Converters in the receivers for converting the digitized signals to complex-valued signals. Transmitters on the receivers transmit their digitized signals, locations, and velocities at the time the signal was received to a processor. A central processing unit on the processor determines a difference in radial velocities of the receivers relative to the transmitter. The difference in radial velocities and delay time between the signals received at the receivers are used to geolocate the transmitter.

Inventors: 
Smith, David C.
Patent Number: 
Technical domain: 
Sensors and Measurement
FIle Date: 
2009-03-11
Grant Date: 
2011-02-22
Grant time: 
713 days
Grant time percentile rank: 
13
Claim count percentile rank: 
5
Citations percentile rank: 
2
'Cited by' percentile rank: 
1
Assignee: 
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY