Patent ID: 8330644

Claim:
An expandable and reconfigurable instrument node, comprising: a feature detection means; a data processing portion in communication with the feature detection means, the data processing portion configured and disposed to process feature information; a phase locked loop (PLL) oscillator in communication with the data processing portion, the PLL oscillator configured and disposed to provide PLL information to the processing portion; a single tone transceiver in communication with the PLL oscillator, the single tone transceiver configured and disposed to transmit or receive a single tone for phase correction of the PLL oscillator; a pulse transceiver in communication with the PLL oscillator, the pulse transceiver configured and disposed to transmit and receive signals for phase correction of the PLL oscillator; and a global positioning (GPA) receiver in communication with the processing portion, the GPS receiver configured and disposed to establish a global position of the instrument node.