TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RADIO ENGINEERING - 2011 Vol. 70,
No 6 		 

 

 

 

PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION OF A LOW-ORBIT SMALL SATELLITES BATCHING USING THE RANGE-DIFFERENCE METHOD IN ORDER TO ESTIMATE RADIO SOURCES COORDINATES



M.V. Mironov, V.A. Gromov, E.P. Voroshilin, & G.S. Sharygin
Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR)
40, Lenin Ave., Tomsk, 634050, Russia
Address all correspondence to M.V. Mironov E-mail: mironov.mikhail.v@gmail.com

Abstract
There is proposed an iterative algorithm for radio sources coordinates estimation utilizing the range-difference method using the multiposition passive satellite system. There was investigated algorithm of the signal delay time estimation. There was carried out the statistical simulation of the delay time algorithm and the coordinates estimation algorithm. There was found the time of arrival estimation accuracy needed to solve the problem of coordinates estimation. There were defined the requirements to the satellite orbit altitude and to the spacing between the satellites for the small satellites constellation.

KEY WORDS: radiation source, time of arrival estimation, range-difference method, coordinates estimation accuracy, space passive radiomonitoring system

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