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Radar and electronic navigation /
Radar and Electronic Navigation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London ; Boston :
Butterworths,
1988.
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| Edición: | 6th ed. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Radar and Electronic Navigation; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction to marine navigation; Alternating currents and voltages; Electromagnetic radiation; Noise and interference; Transmitters; Receivers; Progress in electronic engineering; Doppler effect; Cathode-ray tube; Hyperbolas; Reflection by the ionosphere; Chapter 2. Underwater navigational aids; The echo sounder; Transducers; The Doppler log; The electromagnetic log; Chapter 3. Direction finding; Direction finders; Principal errors; Visual direction finders; Radio beacons; The Consol system
- Chapter 4. The Decca and Omega systemsThe Decca Navigator System; Accuracy; Receiver operation; The Holland chain; The Racal Decca Colour Videoplotter; New types of receivers; The Omega system; Chapter 5. The Loran system; Principle; Accuracy; Loran plotting charts; Receivers; Chapter 6. The Navy Navigation Satellite System; Principle; Accuracy; Magnavox MX 4102 receiver; Chapter 7. The Global Positioning System; Introduction; Other existing and future satellite systems; Chapter 8. Radar; General description; Principles and operation of a radar installation
- Marine radar equipment in more detailOperation of the radar; Radar presentations; Radar specifications; Effect of atmospheric conditions on radiation; Dangers of radar equipment; Radar as an aid to navigation; Use of radar; Parallel index navigation; Plotting; Features of radar systems; Automatic radar plotting aids; Radar reflectors; Radar beacons; False echoes; Radar functions and controls; Appendix; Sine-wave voltages and currents; Analysing periodic curves into sine or cosine waves; Parabolas; Hyperbolas; Hyperboloid; Direction finding
- Magnetostriction and piezo-magnetism, electrostriction and piezo-electricityUse of Loran-C tables; Transit system; Radar; Automatic radar plotting aids; Index