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Smoothing and Interpolating Noisy GPS Data with Smoothing Splines

Methodology 2020-02-18 v2 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Applications Computation Machine Learning

Abstract

A comprehensive methodology is provided for smoothing noisy, irregularly sampled data with non-Gaussian noise using smoothing splines. We demonstrate how the spline order and tension parameter can be chosen a priori from physical reasoning. We also show how to allow for non-Gaussian noise and outliers which are typical in GPS signals. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods on GPS trajectory data obtained from oceanographic floating instruments known as drifters.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12064,
  title  = {Smoothing and Interpolating Noisy GPS Data with Smoothing Splines},
  author = {Jeffrey J. Early and Adam M. Sykulski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12064},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures

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