Questions tagged [trilateration]
The process of determinating absolute or relative locations of points by measurement of distances
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Trilateration using latitude/longitude points, and distances
I want to find out an unknown target location (latitude and longitude co-ordinates). There are +3 lat-long known points and for each point a distance in meters to the target location. I found some ...
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Minimum number of satellites per constellation in Multi-constellation Navigation
Relating to my previous question, I'm trying to understand how the LS method work for multi-constellation GNSS trilateration/multilateration. I understand for 2 constellations, trilateration require ...
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Multi-Constellation GNSS Trilateration Code Error
I’m trying to implement a multi-constellation trilateration code in Python to test an anti-spoofing mechanism. With reference of a single trilateration from this Github page, I attempted to execute a ...
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Calculating coordinates of points from just distances, no bearings
The task I'm giving myself is about enabling people with little equipment to produce a map of a forest, or a garden with an important presence of trees.
I participate to openstreetmap and I plan to (...
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Trilateration using known points, but relative distances
I want to find the latitude and longitude of a point, based on knowing three nearby locations, similar to this well written post:
Trilateration using 3 latitude and longitude points, and 3 distances
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Does height difference between beacons results in a more accurate 3D position localisation?
I'm kinda fresh on the trilateration/triangulation topic.
If you place 4 beacons in each corner of a room at the same height or if you place them on different heights relative to each other will ...
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walk me through tdoa [closed]
I'm working on a TDOA application. This is just something in my free time to see if my hardware can accurately do it and it sounded like a cool challenge. Regardless if it looks possible or not, I'm ...
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Trilateration with error account or lack of precision
I am developing a node.js/javascript application where I would have dozens of beacons in a row (positions known), which gives me their distances to specific object (3 or 4 distances per object). The ...
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Clarification about Trilateration
What is the method used by wikipedia to solve Trilateration problem, is it the Linear Least Square? or is it just a direct solution of a set of linear equation systeme with exact distance? but in this ...
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Set of intersection points in trilateration / multilateration [duplicate]
Like in this post I will get a set of points (3 or more) with latitude, longitude and distance (in KM) information to find out the target location. A distance could be about 500 KM. The circles (...
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Calculate an intersection point of multiple spheres on the surface of earth [duplicate]
The question i am going to ask is very much similar to this question-How to calculate the intersection of 2 Circles?
But the problem here is, the radius of the spheres are too small (within 8 meter). ...
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Trilateration using 3 x,y points and 3 distances, all in cm [closed]
I want to find out the position (x,y) of a given point, knowing the distance from 3 x,y points.
Below you can view the x,y coordinates and their given distances in cm.
B1x = 795
B1y = 332
B1d = 245....
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localization by trilateration ( weighted nonlinear least squares )
I am writing an app for beacon localization and I am looking for a formula which,
given beacons of known positions and distance from target, finds the target position.
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given beacon1 located at (...
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Plotting points that have relative coordinates rather than total station coordinates on map?
I have about +100 points of various descriptions from an archaeological survey. They are the backlog from years of excavations BEFORE systematically using Total Station at the site. For each artifact ...
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Trilateration using two or three points
We have a positioning system where we can measure our range without 0.1m from multiple beacons. The placement of the beacons is about on a 1-2km box. So we could get anywhere from 2-4 ranges from ...
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How does the radius work in Trilateration
I've been trying to understand the trilateration algorithm based on the wikipedia article. As of now, I have a system where I have the distance of 3 sensors wrt my position and i have the exact GPS ...
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Converting from an x-y coordinate system to latitude/longitude
I'm building an indoor wifi-based tracking system that can calculate the position of a device in meters relative to the sensors distributed throughout the building. So far I've gotten to the point ...
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Bilateration using longitude, latitude
I have 2 coordinates (Longitude and Latitude) and a distance from them to a third coordinate.
How is it possible to calculate the longitude and latitude (probably 2 possibilities) of the third ...
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Multilateration Code
I am currently writing some code to do multilateration using TDOA and currently struggling and wondering if anyone has any reference code that can be used as a test case with some sample data that I ...
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Pure html based indoor navigation
I would like to locate (position) people inside buildings without forcing them to download a native app. I'm focusing on iOS and Android devices.
I therefore thought about wifi triangulation (...
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Given distances from two locations how to accurately find geographic coordinates [duplicate]
I am working on a research problem which requires me to calculate a geographic location accurately (with error distance of few meters), given distances from two geographic locations. For instance:
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Trilateration algorithm for n amount of points in R?
I read the page Trilateration algorithm for n amount of points and I have to do similar kind of trilateration in R.
I am not that expert in R, can anyone help, if there is similar function/package ...
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Trilateration issue
My program isn't making use of any geographical data, but I'm hoping that the users experience in the subject can help me with my current issue.
The project I am working is trying to locate a user in ...
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Math algorithm for n amount points in objective-c
I need some information about the Answer on an earlier Question.
I need this calculation for an iOS App. I have three points with different Circles.
I understand the problem and your solution. But i ...
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Long range Trilateration from 3 lat, long, range
I've been looking at the following solution to a similar problem
Trilateration using 3 latitude and longitude points, and 3 distances
However with my problem the 3 points are spread over a large ...
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How can I use ArcGIS 10.1 to find a geodesic equidistant point defined by three points?
For example, I have coordinates for three base points on a coastline and I need to find the coordinates of the point off the coast which is equidistant from all three. It’s a simple exercise in ...
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Trilateration 3D - Vincenty's Formula
with reference to Trilateration using 3 latitude and longitude points, and 3 distances.
The accepted answer was votes as shown in wikipedia in conjunction with a conversion to radians before and ...
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Iterating model to create 3 buffers around three points and find their intersection (trilateration) in ArcMap [duplicate]
This past summer I recorded the location of a large number of plants I was working with by calculating the distance from each plant to each of 3 tripods for which I have GPS coordinates. I'm trying to ...
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Trilateration on a Sphere, given 2 points and 2 distances
Given the points:
A) N 38° 38.000 W 90° 20.000
B) N 38° 39.000 W 90° 21.000
(I can calculate the distance between the 2 using a spherical earth model as 7710 feet, though it's not particularly ...
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Differences between triangulation and trilateration
Looking around I noticed that many people interchange the terms (triangulation and trilateration) for the same sense.
What is the correct sense of Triangulation and what are the differences from ...
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