Trilateration using 3 latitude and longitude points, and 3 distances
- by nohat
There exists an unknown target location (latitude and longitude co-ordinates). I have 3 latitude and longitude co-ordinate pairs and for each pair a distance in kilometers to the target location. How can I calculate the co-ordinates of the target location?
For example, say I have the following data points
37.418436,-121.963477 0.265710701754km…