A closed-form solution to bearings-only target motion analysis

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 168-178

  Nardone, Steven C ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Graham, Marcus L ^a,c,d,g  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^e Arinc Research Corp   (United States)

^f Naval Undersea Warfare Center ^*  (United States)

^g CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearings only target motion analysis; Estimation; Nonlinear estimation; Tracking; Underwater vehicle detection and tracking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OBSERVABILITY; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACOUSTIC SENSORS; BEARINGS ONLY TARGET MOTION ANALYSIS; CLOSED FORM SOLUTION; PSEUDOLINEAR SOLUTIONS; UNDERWATER VEHICLE DETECTION;

STATE ESTIMATION;

EID: 0030651897     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.557551     Document Type: Article

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