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OK, I get that they developed a new algorithm for this field, but can anyone shed light on how you could use satellite pings for this aircraft and other flights
by porker 13y ago
OK, I get that they developed a new algorithm for this field, but can anyone shed light on how you could use satellite pings for this aircraft and other flights to work out it headed south?
- kbenson 13y agoI imagine it was probably a mix of using timestamps, assumed atmospheric conditions, signal quality, and any other data they can model and what variations it can/might cause in the signal from all the combined to make assumptions about possible locations when the ping was sent. Using data from other planes is probably using their ping data along with their more accurate reported flight data to to generate a statistical model of what conditions cause what variations in specific conditions. That probably sounds very "hand-wavey" and unlikely, but consider that a lot of advanced internet security attacks rely on building predictive models of slightly broken random number generator implementations (from my understanding). For another example, here's[1] something that a quick google search brought up that was possible almost nine years ago. [1]: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/14_key.shtml http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/14_key.s...