| TVD | time-varying delay |
| DPD | direct position determination |
| AOA | angle of arrival |
| RSS | received signal strength |
| TOA | time of arrival |
| TDOA | time difference of arrival |
| FDOA | frequency difference of arrival |
| RFDOA | rate of frequency difference of arrival |
| ML | maximum-likelihood |
| CAF | complex ambiguity function |
| CRLB | Cramer–Rao lower bound |
| RTC | relative time companding |
| RDC | relative Doppler companding |
| BPSK | binary phase shift keying |
| SNR | signal-to-noise ratio |
| RMSE | root mean squared error |
| FPGA | field–programmable gate array |
| GPU | graphics processing unit |