If you know the distance d to a satellite, you can compute a circle of points that passes through your location. That’s because you’re at the intersection of two spheres—the earth’s surface and a sphere of radius d centered on the satellite—and the intersection of two spheres is a circle. Said another way, one observation […] The post Intersecting spheres and GPS first appeared on John D. Cook.
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