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Figure 26.1 illustrates a simplified typical situation of navigation with modern aircraft. The airplane is in an unknown position and receives signals from various beacons. The main purpose of this chapter is to develop a method for computing the most likely position of the aircraft based on the information available.
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Gonnet, G. (1997). Non Linear Least Squares: Finding the most accurate location of an aircraft. In: Solving Problems in Scientific Computing Using Maple and MATLAB®. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97953-8_26
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