A robust solution to high-accuracy geolocation: Quadruple integration of GPS, IMU, pseudolite, and terrestrial laser scanning

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3694-3708

  Grejner Brzezinska, Dorota A ^a   Toth, Charles K ^a   Sun, Hongxing ^a,b   Wang, Xiankun ^a   Rizos, Chris ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System; inertial navigation; Kalman filtering; laserscanning; navigation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; CONCEPT DESIGNS; DATA INTEGRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSORS; GEOLOCATION METHODOLOGY; GEOLOCATIONS; GPS SIGNALS; HIGH-ACCURACY; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; INTEGRATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN-FILTERING; LASERSCANNING; LOCAL FRAME; MAN-PORTABLE; MAPPING SYSTEMS; MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEMS; NON-CONTACT; NOVEL COMPONENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POSITIONING ACCURACY; PSEUDOLITES; RADIO FREQUENCY SYSTEMS; RELATIVE ACCURACY; RELATIVE POSITIONING; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE;

DESIGN; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTEGRATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 80054073457     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2050981     Document Type: Article

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