Statistical characteristics of the coordinates of a point on the Earth's surface, when applied the combination of differential-ranging and dynamical methods on spacecraft

Abstract

The paper shows the analytical relations for calculation in the linear approximation by measurement errors assessment of geographical coordinates and correlation matrix of points on the Earth's surface when using a combination of differential-ranging and dynamical methods. There is said that the use of dynamical and differential-ranging methods reduces the number of spacecraft to 2 when implementing high positioning accuracy inherent to RDM and simplifies the maintenance of configuration groups.

Keywords

radiation sources / positioning / statistical characteristics / differential-ranging and dynamical methods

References

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Blokhina V.F., Popov P.B.