Optimal integer resolution for attitude determination using global positioning system signals

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 377-391

  Crassidis, John L ^a   Markley, F Landis ^b   Lightsey, E Glenn ^b  

^a Dept of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0347507707     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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