RANGE ERROR ANALYSIS

Abstract

The sample world-wide satellite tracking program carried out by the Army Map Service is presented. By using satellites with known heights and inclinations and the coordinates of known points on geodetic datums, the coordinates of unknown points were related to these datums. The known and unknown points used in each segment of the program are presented, and the probable error in the correction to each unknown point is given. This program is intended to be a theoretical problem for testing the range error analysis theory and equations and the resulting errors which would be associated with each determined position; therefore, the coordinates used for the known and unknown points were taken from maps and gazetteers and are only approximate.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0295842

Entities

People

  • Alice G. Sturdivant

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Archipelagoes
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Birds
  • Equations
  • Error Analysis
  • Errors
  • Falkland Islands
  • Geometry
  • Government Procurement
  • Islands
  • Mauritius
  • New Guinea
  • Observation
  • Range Finding
  • Stations
  • Trinidad
  • Uncertainty

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Geodesy

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris