Utilization of Modified Polar Coordinates for Bearings-Only Tracking

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 283-294

  Aidala, Vincent J ^a   Hammel, Sherry E ^a  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION - KALMAN FILTERING;

SONAR;

EID: 0020718439     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: 15582523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.1983.1103230     Document Type: Article

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