We put forth in this paper a geometrically motivated 3-D motion error analysis which is capable of supporting investigation of global effect such as inherent ambiguities. The error expression that we derive allows us to predict the exact conditions likely to cause ambiguities and how these ambiguities vary with motion types such as lateral or forward motion. Our formulation, though geometricall...

We consider the maximum likelihood parameter estimation problem for a generalized Thurstone choice model, where choices are top-1 items from comparison sets of two or more items. We provide tight characterizations of the mean square error, as well as necessary and sufficient conditions for correct classification when each item belongs to one of two classes. These results provide insights into h...

Sensitivity analysis for water vapor profile estimation with Infrared: IR sounder data based on inversion is carried out. Through simulation study, it is found that influence due to ground surface relative humidity estimation error is greater than that of sea surface temperature estimation error on the water vapor vertical profile retrievals. KeywordsIR sounde; error budget analysis; MODTRAN; a...