Mobile LMUs can be used in a Wireless Location System to provide detection
coverage in areas lacking adequate receiver coverage. The mobile LMUs can
be used to detect the radio frequency (RF) transmissions from wireless
handsets and devices over a period of time to permit determination of
their location. The mobile LMU's time, position, and velocity is
calculated and transmitted to a SMLC along with any transmissions
received from wireless devices. The SMLC analyzes and resolves the
Doppler component of the wireless device while compensating for the
Doppler component of the mobile LMU. The position and velocity of the
wireless device can be compared with real-time imagery taken by the
mobile LMU platform to accurately determine the location of the wireless
device. To enhance the mobile LMU's ability to detect a signal of
interest, which may be very weak and/or corrupted by noise, a process may
be employed whereby the low power mobile terminals' signals are received
at receiving sites and stored in memory. Then, a more powerful replica of
the SOI is received at a later time from a network controller, or BTS,
and this is employed to enhance the correlation processing of the SOI in
memory.