Estimation and Prediction of Ballistic Missile Trajectories - Softcover

Isaacson, Jeffrey A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833023764 ISBN 13: 9780833023766

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 1996

Synopsis

To examine the capabilities satellites can bring to bear in the theater missile defense (TMD) environment, the authors describe a methodology, based on Kalman filtering, for the estimation and prediction of ballistic missile trajectories and then apply the methodology to a notional theater ballistic missile.

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About the Author

Jeffrey A. Isaacson (MIT PhD Theoretical Physics) is a senior physical scientist at RAND whose research interests include ballistic missile defense, conventional weapons proliferation, and long-range planning.

DAVID R. VAUGHAN (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a Research Scientist at RAND, Santa Monica, California. Research areas include Defense Systems, Strategic Weapon Systems, and Communications Systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0833023764
• ISBN 13: 9780833023766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98