GPS GDOP metric
GPS GDOP metric
- Author(s): R. Yarlagadda ; I. Ali ; N. Al-Dhahir ; J. Hershey
- DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20000554
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- Author(s): R. Yarlagadda 1 ; I. Ali 2 ; N. Al-Dhahir 3 ; J. Hershey 4
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Affiliations:
1: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA
2: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Motorola, Arlington Heights, USA
3: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AT&T Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, USA
4: Electronic Systems Laboratory, General Electric Corporate Research & Development Center, Niskayuna, USA
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Affiliations:
1: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA
- Source:
Volume 147, Issue 5,
October 2000,
p.
259 – 264
DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20000554 , Print ISSN 1350-2395, Online ISSN 1359-7086
The authors present a review of the GDOP metric as used in GPS. Their goal is to review this metric and many of its known bounds as well as to report some new results. They use a formal linear algebraic framework to aid further study and insight.
Inspec keywords: linear algebra; Global Positioning System
Other keywords: bounds; formal linear algebraic framework; GPS GDOP metric; geometric dilution of precision
Subjects: Radionavigation and direction finding; Satellite communication systems; Linear algebra (numerical analysis)
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