Title :
Algorithm of Earth-centered Earth-fixed coordinates to geodetic coordinates
Author :
Yuanxin Wu ; Ping Wang ; Xiaoping Hu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. Control, National Univ. of Defense Technol., Hunan, China
Abstract :
The transformation between Earth-centered Earth-fixed (ECEF) coordinates and geodetic coordinates is required in many applications. This correspondence presents an iterative approach using the Newton-Raphson (NR) method that has good efficiency and accuracy and is free from singularity and nonconvergence except in a small region near the center of the Earth. Comparisons with other well-known approximate methods are made in complexity and performance.
Keywords :
Newton-Raphson method; geodesy; navigation; ECEF; Earth-centered Earth-fixed coordinate; GPS navigation; NR method; Newton-Raphson method; geodetic coordinate; iterative approach; Approximation algorithms; Earth; Ellipsoids; Equations; Geodesy; Global Positioning System; Iterative algorithms; Iterative methods; Kernel; Navigation;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAES.2003.1261144
