Terminal-area aircraft tracking using hybrid estimation

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 836-849

  Seah, Chze Eng ^a,b   Hwang, Inseok ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AIRCRAFT; AIRPORTS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AIRCRAFT MOVEMENTS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONFLICT DETECTION; FLIGHT MODE TRANSITION; SIMULATION EXAMPLE; TRAJECTORY PREDICTION;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 67149134807     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.40127     Document Type: Article

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