Error model of geomagnetic-field measurement and extended Kalman-filter based compensation method

Zhilei Ge1, Suyun Liu1, Guopeng Li1

  • 1School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaan xi Province, People's Republic of China.

Plos One
|April 27, 2017
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