GNSS shadow matching: Improving urban positioning accuracy using a 3D city model with optimized visibility scoring scheme

Navigation, Journal of the Institute of Navigation

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-207

  Wang, Lei ^a   Groves, Paul D ^a   Ziebart, Marek K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATE POSITIONS; DIFFRACTION AND REFLECTION; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE VISIBILITY; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISIBILITY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84884673856     PISSN: 00281522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/navi.38     Document Type: Article

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