An integrated approach for the estimation of mobile subscriber geolocation

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 217-231

  Kikiras, Panaghiotis ^a,b   Drakoulis, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Army Info Support Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Kalman filtering; Mobile geolocation; State estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; MOBILE GEOLOCATION; MULTIPLE SENSOR DATA; SERVICE PROVIDERS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; STATE ESTIMATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TRACKING (POSITION);

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 9944252003     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WIRE.0000049401.97358.c7     Document Type: Article

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