Increase a standalone GPS positioning accuracy by using a proximity sensor

ECTI-CON 2010 - The 2010 ECTI International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 584-587

  Khoomboon, S ^a   Kasetkasem, T ^a   Keinprasit, R ^b   Sugino, N ^c  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data fusion; GPS receiver; Precision agriculture; Proximity sensors; Vehicle

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY INFORMATION; BEST ESTIMATES; ERROR VALUES; FIELD WORKS; GPS DATA; GPS POSITIONING; GPS RECEIVERS; GUIDANCE SYSTEM; HIGH COSTS; HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNALS; LINEAR ESTIMATES; LOWER COST; POSITIONING ERROR; POSITIONING SYSTEM; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REFERENCE DEVICES; RTK-GPS; THAILAND;

AGRICULTURE; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROXIMITY SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 77954940228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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