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From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2025 Dec 6, 23:40 -0800
To Mr. Bob Bossert :
You recently stated "I'm using the inverse of Intercepts as a weighting factor."
If so:
(1) - Any LOP's intersection becomes a fix, since both intersected LOP's each have an infinite weighting factor compared to all other LOP's finite weighting factors.
(2) - Sufficiently close from any interception the "pulling force" towards this intersection will get you nearer to it since the "huge" weighting factors of the 2 closest LOP's will more than offset all other weighting factors of the other LOP's.
(3) - We are then in a situation where :
(3.1) - There are at least as many different Fix solutions as the number of LOP's intersections. And :
(3.2) - For any given set of Intercepts/Azimuths and in case of multiples iterations, Final Fixes obtained are initial DR position dependent.
Is this exactly what we might be shooting for ?
Best Regards, and keep up your good work in developing your software project :-)
Kermit
antoine.m.couette[at]club-internet.fr
