Error propagation in two-sensor three-dimensional position estimation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 627-636

  Sanders Reed, John N ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D position estimation; Angles only; Error propagation; Multisensor; Passive ranging; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POSITION ESTIMATION;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0035306498     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1353798     Document Type: Article

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