Effective Computational Approach for Prediction and Estimation of Space Object Breakup Dispersion during Uncontrolled Reentry

Figure 5

Illustration of a fifth-order Gauss-Hermite cubature-based approximation to a nonlinear transformation. The covariance of the true distribution is presented by the dashed line and the solid line is the approximation [10].

(a) Original

(b) Transformed