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Source: Nick Ward, Vicechair, IALA e-Nav Committee, March 2009


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A measure of the propagation of a non-detected gross error in an observation to the position fix.

This "external" reliability is usually expressed in terms of marginally detectable error (MDE).


Source: Nick Ward, Vicechair, IALA e-Nav Committee, March 2009