Design, implementation, testing, and flight results of the TRMM Kalman filter

1998 Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 1911-1918

  Andrews, Stephen F ^a   Morgenstern, Wendy M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; KALMAN FILTERS; ORBITS; RAIN; SOFTWARE TESTING; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; VERIFICATION;

ATTITUDE DETERMINATION METHODS; DIGITAL SUN SENSOR; FLIGHT CODES; KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHMS; SINGLE POINT FAILURE; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE VERIFICATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

RAIN GAGES;

EID: 60349123856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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