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Lorraine M Mauser

Joseph N Dmytrasz

Donald L Sumner

Joseph Gatta

Sung Leong Chew

A passive position fix system for a vehicle in which a gyro first provides a first gyro position of the vehicle, a map storage means which receives the first gyro position and in response thereto provides map-sets containing a set of gravity gradients and a gravity anomaly associated with geographic positions in the vacinity of the first gyro position, a gravity sensor for providing a GSS-set comprising a sensed set of gravity gradients values and a gravity anomaly at the position of the vehicle, a comparing means for sequentially receiving the map-sets so as to determine when there is a match between the GSS-set and a map-set and providing a displacement vector, and a processor for placing a second gyro position in the gyro based on the first gyro position and the displacement vector.

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Commack, NY, United States of America

Lorraine M Mauser