| AOA | Angle of arrival |
| ASN | Acoustic sensor network |
| BOPLE | Bearing-only pseudolinear estimator |
| CLS | Constrained least-squares |
| CRLB | Cramér–Rao lower bound |
| GROA | Gain ratio of arrival |
| LS | Least-squares |
| ML | Maximum likelihood |
| MSE | Mean square error |
| TDOA | Time difference of arrival |
| WIV | Weight instrumental variables |
| WLS | Weighted least-squares |