An experimental platform for an indoor location and tracking system

ENC-GNSS 2008 - European Navigation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Merz, R ^a   Chastellain, F ^a   Botteron, C ^a   Blatter, A ^b   Farine, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b R and D   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; DATA STREAMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); LOCATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIO RECEIVERS; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TRACKING (POSITION);

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; INDOOR PROPAGATION CHANNELS; NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS; PULSE POSITION MODULATED; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; ULTRA WIDEBAND SIGNALS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 85116949834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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