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Re: Position lines, crossing.
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2006 Dec 17, 10:27 -0800
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2006 Dec 17, 10:27 -0800
For equally spaced LOP's, bias errors cancel (The cocked hat gets bigger, the uncertainty remains the same.) Adding LOP's reduces the random error slowly: number of LOP's , avg dist from true to MPP, Std dev of dist 3, 0.51, 0.27 4, 0.44, 0.23 5, 0.40, 0.21 6, 0.36, 0.19 7, 0.34, 0.17 8, 0.31, 0.16 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
