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Indoor Positioning, Bayesian Methods

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Geolocation; Localization; Location estimation; Bayesian estimation; Mobile robotics; Location tracking

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Indoor positioning, generally speaking, is the technology through which the geospatial location coordinates of a number of mobile or stationary objects are determined in indoor environments. A typical indoor positioning system usually estimates the target object's location from observation data collected by a set of sensing devices or sensors. When the target object is stationary the location estimation problem is also referred to as localization problem. On the other hand, estimating the location of mobile target objects is known as target tracking.

Bayesian estimation methods are based on the Bayes' theorem, a well-known result in probability theory, which relates the conditional and marginal probability distributions of random variables. Bayesian approaches are fundamentally different from the classical approaches such as maximum‐likelihood estimator...

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

    Jue Yang & Xinrong Li

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Yang, J., Li, X. (2008). Indoor Positioning, Bayesian Methods. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_627

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