Influence of travel direction on GPS accuracy for vehicle tracking

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 623-634

  Wu, C ^a   Ayers, P D ^a   Anderson, A B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross track error; DOP; GPS dynamic accuracy; XDOP

Indexed keywords

CROSS-TRACK ERRORS; DILUTION OF PRECISION (DOP); GPS DYNAMIC ACCURACY; XDOP;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION); VEHICLES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; GEOMETRY; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION; SATELLITE; TRACKING;

EID: 33748895225     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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