Angle-only tracking and prediction of boost vehicle position
Ming-Jer Tsai, Fannie A. Rogal · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1991
This paper considers the problem of tracking a boost vehicle and predicting its future position using a satellite-based passive optical sensor. The portion of the powered-flight under observation is assumed to be relatively short. Two approaches are studied: a profile-based iterative least-squares algorithm and an extended Kalman filter. Their performances are evaluated using simulated test cases.