STATISTICAL MODEL FOR RANDOM ERRORS OF POSITION LOCATION BASED ON LINES OF POSITION

The U.S. Coast Guard's Aids to Navigation Positioning Project has proposed that procedures for routine determination of positions be revised to include redundant observations for assessing precision and accuracy of the results. This report provides a statistical model and a method for calculating a confidence region for the position location.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Bureau of Standards

  Gaithersburg, MD  United States 

  United States Coast Guard

  2100 Second Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20593
• Authors:
  • Rosenblatt, J R
• Publication Date: 1978-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 15 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Confidence limits; Error analysis; Least squares method; Location; Position fixing; Statistical analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Position finding; Random error
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00176259
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NBSIR-78-1457, NBS2050597
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Aug 19 2002 12:00AM