The ARIES Program: Coordinates, Transformations, Trajectories and Tracking
Bliss L. Diamond, Michael E. Austin · 1975
This report presents the relations necessary to define the motion of a target in the gravitational field of the earth. In order to express this target motion in the frame of a radar, an appropriate set of coordinate systems (and transformations) is introduced. Target tracking in the form of a Maximum Likelihood Estimator is discussed. The problem of interceptor miss distance is treated from the standpoint of the uncertainty volumes associated with estimated target state vectors.