Positional accuracy measurement and error modeling for mobile tracking

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1021-1032

  Sharp, Ian ^a   Yu, Kegen ^b   Sathyan, Thuraiappah ^c  

^a University of New South Wales ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Experimental verification; Indoor outdoor mobile tracking; Positional accuracy measurement; Positional error modeling

Indexed keywords

ERROR STATISTICS; RADIO NAVIGATION;

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; INDOOR/OUTDOOR MOBILE TRACKING; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; POSITIONAL ACCURACY MEASUREMENTS; POSITIONAL ERROR MODELING; RADIOLOCATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE; TESTING PERFORMANCE;

ERRORS;

EID: 84860356642     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2011.119     Document Type: Article

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