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tional Museum of American History in Washington, DC, since
1997
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and in the Geodesy and Mapping Department of the
Deutsches Museum in Munich since 1998.
Until Professor Counselman’s patents
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12
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expired, virtual-
ly all GPS receivers made in this country were made under
licenses from Western Atlas International Inc., which had ac-
quired the patents in 1984.
Professor Counselman continued to collaborate with the
Air Force through the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and
Lincoln Laboratory; and, from 1994 to 1998, he consulted for
the U.S. Secretary of Defense as a member of Defense Science
Board Task Forces I & II on GPS.
References and Notes
1. Counselman III, C. C., Very-long-baseline interferome-
try techniques applied to problems of geodesy, geophys-
ics, planetary science, astronomy, and general relativi-
ty,
Proc. IEEE
, vol. 61, pp. 1225-1230, September 1973.
Counselman III, C. C., Radio Astrometry, chapter in
Ann.
Rev. Astron. and Astrophys.
, vol. 14, pp. 197-214, 1976.
2. Counselman III, C. C., Kent, S. M., Knight, C. A., Shap-
iro, I. I., Clark, T. A., Hinter-egger, H. F., Rogers, A. E.
E., and Whitney, A. R., Solar gravitational deflection of
radio waves measured by very-long-baseline interferome-
try,
Phys. Rev. Lett.
, vol. 33, pp. 1621- 1623, December 30,
1974.
3. Counselman III, C. C., Hinteregger, H. F., King, R. W., and
Shapiro, I. I., Precision selenodesy via differential inter-
ferometry,
Science
, vol. 181, pp. 772-774, August 24, 1973.
Counselman III, C. C., Hinteregger, H. F., King, R. W., and
Shapiro, I. I., Lunar baselines and libration from differen-
tial VLBI observations of ALSEPs,
The Moon
, vol. 8, pp.
484-489, 1973.
4. Counselman III, C. C., Hinteregger, H. F., and Shapiro,
I. I., Astronomical applications of differential interferom-
etry,
Science
, vol. 178, pp. 607-608, November 10, 1972.
5. Counselman III, C. C., Gourevitch, S. A., King, R. W., Lo-
riot, G. B., and Ginsberg, E. S., Zonal and meridional cir-
culation of the lower atmosphere of Venus determined by
radio interferometry,
J. Geophys. Res.
, vol. 85, pp. 8026-
8030, 30 December 1980.
6. Counselman III, C. C., and Shapiro, I. I., Miniature inter-
ferometer terminals for earth surveying, in Proc. 9th GEOP
Conference, pp. 65-85 (Dept. of Geodetic Science Rept. No.
280,OhioStateUniv., Columbus,Ohio43210)October 1978.
Counselman III, C. C., Cox, D. B., Greenspan, R. L., and
Shapiro, I. I., Backpack VLBI terminal with subcentime-
ter capability, in
Radio Interferometry Techniques for Ge-
odesy
(NASA conference pub. no. 2115), pp. 409-414, 1980.
7. Counselman III, C. C., and Steinbrecher, D. H., The MAC-
ROMETERTM compact radio interferometry terminal for
geodesy with GPS, in
Proc. Third Intl. Geodetic Symp. on
Satellite Doppler Positioning
, vol. 2, pp. 1165-1172, 8 Feb-
ruary 1982.
8. Report on Test and Demonstration of MACROMETER™
Model 1000 Interfero¬metric Surveyor, by L. D. Hothem
and C. J. Fronczek, Federal Geodetic Control Committee,
Report FGCC-IS-83-2, May 1983.
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10. Counselman III, C. C., Method and System for Determin-
ing Position Using Signals from Satellites, U. S. Patent No.
4,667,203, 24 pp. incl. 9 figs. and 80 claims, May 19, 1987.
Counselman III, C. C., Multi-Antenna GPS Receiver
for Seismic Survey Vessels, U. S. Patent No. 4,809,005,
77 pp. incl. 25 figs. & 9 claims, February 28, 1989.
Counselman III, C. C., System for Simultaneously De-
riving Position Information from a Plurality of Satellite
Transmissions, U. S. Patent No. 5,014,066 (19 pp. incl. 9
figs. and 12 claims), May 7, 1991.
and others.
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