A statistical modeling approach to location estimation

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-69

  Roos, Teemu ^b   Myllymaki, Petri ^b   Tirri, Henry ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Location estimation; Mobile terminais; Signal propagation; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

LOCATION ESTIMATION; MOBILE TERMINALS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; STATISTICAL MODELING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NAVIGATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SATELLITES;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0012063711     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2002.1011059     Document Type: Article

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