Statistical Analysis of Artillery Surveying Procedure in an Artillery Test Range

Surveying is used to determine impact point in an artillery test range. Triangulation is a suitable means of measuring the impact point coordinates without physically visiting the area. The parameters derived from the measurements are Mean Point of Impact (MPI) and Probable Error (PE). It is essential to understand the statistical distribution of the parameters and behavior of the key statistics of the parameters and their dependency on the measurement setup in a test range scenario. This paper explores the above statistics using numerical methods which is otherwise impossible to obtain experimentally from a limited number of trials. The use of Monte Carlo method has been demonstrated for the given analysis.