DocumentCode
1214743
Title
Great Circle Plots on Arbitrary Maps
Author
Winkler, Louis
Author_Institution
Radio Astronomy Obervatory, Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA
Volume
14
Issue
3
fYear
1966
fDate
6/1/1966 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
341
Lastpage
342
Abstract
Mathematical methods are presented for obtaining the locus of points representing the intersection of the figure of the earth and the plane defined by the central ray of a signal scattered between two sites. Algebraic expressions of the latitude-longitude pairs which represent the locus are presented for the case where the figure of the earth is a sphere. An outline of the method for determining latitude-longitude pairs is included for the case where the figure of the earth is an oblate spheroid.
Keywords
Directive antennas; Earth; Fresnel reflection; Scattering; Topology;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communication Technology, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9332
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TCOM.1966.1089318
Filename
1089318
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