Position Finding with Empirical Prior Knowledge

Abstract

Information on the position of a source of radiation is often obtained from bearing observations made from two or more known locations. Some criticisms of existing procedures are enumerated and a new approach proposed. This approach allows for the incorporation of knowledge existing before the observations are made and provides simple computational procedures for estimating the source position and for ascertaining the new state of knowledge from the data furnished by the observations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0735112

Entities

People

  • Peter J. Butterly

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computations
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Direction Finding
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Geometry
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Measurement
  • Operations Research
  • Position Finding
  • Probability
  • Radiation
  • Random Variables

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.