NLOS Mitigation Methods for Geolocation

Handbook of Position Location: Theory, Practice, and Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 557-581

  Lie, Joni Polili ^a   Lim, Chin Heng ^a   See, Chong Meng Samson ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Locating mobile terminal (MT); NLOS mitigation methods for geolocation; Robust trimming method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885982428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118104750.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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