Two-way ranging system

摘要

The DME pulse pair is followed by a third, steep-edge pulse. The time marks are divided from the third pulse. To ensure that no random pulses are evaluated as the third pulse, the pulse pairs are still evaluated for decoding and to control tracking, while the third pulse can be evaluated only during a given time after the reception of the pulse pair. The novel interrogators and transponders can also cooperate with existing interrogators and transponders, in which case only the improvement in accuracy is lost.