Estimating wind velocities from limited sailplane flight data
conference paper
The problem of estimating wind velocities from limited flight data recordings is considered, with application to sailplane flights in high-altitude mountain waves. Sailplane flight recorders routinely measure only GPS position and, infrequently, also airspeed and the problem is underdetermined. Maximum likelihood and maximum a posteriori estimators are developed for these kinds of data and tested by simulation and by application to sailplane flight data.
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TNO Identifier
446771
Source title
13th International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, SIP 2011, 14-16 December 2011, Dallas, TX
Pages
109-114
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