An Efficient Computation of Effective Ground Range Using an Oblate Earth Model

Dalal A. Maturi, Malik Zaka Ullah, Shahid Ahmad and Fayyaz Ahmad

Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2014, vol. 2014, 1-7

Abstract:

An effcient method is presented to calculate the ground range of a ballistic missile trajectory on a nonrotating Earth. The spherical Earth model does not provide good approximation of distance between two locations on the surface of Earth. We used oblate spheroid Earth model because it provides better approximations. The effective ground range of a ballistic missile is an arc-length of a planner elliptic (or circle) curve which passes through the launch and target points on the surface of Earth model. A general formulation is presented to calculate the arc-length of an elliptic (or circle) curve which is the intersection of oblate Earth model and a plane. Explicit formulas are developed to calculate the coordinates of center of the ellipse as well as major and minor axes which are necessary ingredients for the calculation of effective ground range.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1155/2014/459790

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