The Development of the Inertial Rapid Geodetic Survey System at USAETL

1978 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-470
Author(s):  
Mark S. Todd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Inertial Navigation System ◽  
Gravity Anomalies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geodetic Survey ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Deflections Of The Vertical ◽  
Survey System

This paper addresses the development of an inertial navigation system into a land-based geodetic survey system by the United States Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories from the Position and Azimuth Determining System (PADS) to the Rapid Geodetic Survey System (RGSS). It contains a brief description of the inertial platform and its operation to obtain position, elevation, gravity anomalies and deflections of the vertical. A summary of test results are included. Potential utilization and improvements are also addressed.

Arguing over A-Bombs

2019 ◽  
pp. 141-173
Author(s):  
Hal M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
The United States ◽  
Defense Policy ◽  
Test Results ◽  
World War ◽  
Bikini Atoll ◽  
The Press ◽  
Operation Crossroads

Interservice rivalry between the United States Army and Navy over the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests was an example of a larger rivalry over roles, missions, and budgets that was endemic to U.S. defense policy immediately after World War II.The tests became embroiled in this larger conflict because of the perception that they could be employed by either service to argue its case for the lion’s share of resources in the postwar world.Therefore, each service went to great lengths to try to assure the press and public that the tests were not “rigged.”What is most interesting, however, about the atomic bomb tests of Operation Crossroads was the fact that the test results were so inconclusive.

Review of Personnel work in the United States Army.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 476-476
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
The United States
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