Device and method for orientation and positioning

A method for a locator configuration to locate a locating signal emitter, comprising:

• providing a plurality of spaced receivers, including a group of receivers in respective locating signal-receiving angular positions, each of the receivers having an angular position coordinate value, stored in memory, associated with a designated angle of the receiver relative to a reference axis;
• enabling each receiver in the group of receivers to receive at least one locating signal from the locating signal emitter, the locating signal including, at least in part, a plurality of pulses in at least one train of pulses;
• enabling at least one locator processor, in communication with the spaced receivers, at a first clock increment, to:
• process the locating signal received at each receiver in the group of receivers, to form a pulse count value in relation to a count of pulses above a pulse strength threshold;
• form a pulse count profile whose coordinates include each pulse count value and the corresponding angular location accessed from memory;
• and to
• attribute a designated angular position coordinate value corresponding to a maximum pulse count value in the pulse count profile as a location value representative of at least the heading of the emitter.