Use of an altitude sensor to augment availability of GPS locatio

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1997-07-03

2000-04-25

Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.

Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location

Navigation

Employing position determining equipment

701213, G01S 500, G05D 100

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060554770

ABSTRACT:
Methods for GPS-assisted determination of location coordinates of a mobile user or selected position on or adjacent to the Earth's surface with improved accuracy. Elevation readings from an altimeter or barometer are integrated with readings of the GPS-determined elevation coordinate for that location, using Kalman filter techniques, minimum least square techniques, or comparison of certain statistically defined parameters associated with the altimeter and GPS variables, such as the standard deviation of the expected errors in these variables. The resulting elevation coordinate may be a statistical blend or filtered blend of the altimeter value and a GPS-determined value for the elevation coordinate; or this resulting elevation coordinate can be chosen to be one or the other of these values, based upon comparison of time varying statistical parameters corresponding to the altimeter and the GPS.

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