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There’s an old physics joke that compares the underlying philosophies of three major physics theories to attitudes (no pun intended) of three distinctly different baseball umpires.
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G. Welter, J. Boia, M. Gakenheimer, E. Kimmer, D. Channel, & L. Hallock, Variations on the Davenport Gyroscope Calibration Algorithm in the proceedings of the 1996 GSFC Flight Mechanics/Estimation Theory Symposium.
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field of regard - from www.theFreeDictionary.com: “all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment” - so, just replace “eye” with “sensor” in our current context.
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Astigmatism and coma are aberrations in an optical system, the former resulting when the system has different foci for rays that propagate in two perpendicular planes, and the latter manifest as a variation in magnification across the entrance pupil.
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Hallock, H.L., Welter, G., Simpson, D.G., Rouff, C. (2017). Spacecraft State Estimation More Broadly. In: ACS Without an Attitude. NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7325-0_8
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