Orbital parameter estimation using an extended Kalman filter
Abstract
The problem of orbital parameter estimation using angles only observations is examined. Direction cosine measurements, obtained from satellite passage of an earth-based stationary planar radar beam, are assimilated by an extended Kalman filter to improve estimates of a classical orbital element set. Several progressively comprehensive orbital motion models are considered and compared. The relative effectiveness of these models is illustrated by applying them to actual satellite data.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- December 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992PhDT........51B
- Keywords:
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- Artificial Satellites;
- Coordinate Transformations;
- Estimating;
- Kalman Filters;
- Radar Beams;
- Earth Orbits;
- Estimates;
- Orbital Elements;
- Astrodynamics