The autocovariance least-squares technique for GPS measurement noise estimation

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 574-588

  Abdel Hafez, Mamoun F ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System (GPS); Inertial navigation sensor; Kalman filtering; Measurement noise estimation; Statistical estimation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCOVARIANCES; GPS/IMU; HIGH-ACCURACY; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; KALMAN-FILTERING; LEAST SQUARE; LEAST-SQUARES TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT NOISE; MEASUREMENT NOISE COVARIANCE MATRIX; MULTI-PATH; NOISE MAGNITUDE; PSEUDORANGE; PSEUDORANGE MEASUREMENTS; STATE ESTIMATES; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ESTIMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; NAVIGATION; SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 77249123973     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2034969     Document Type: Article

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