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The /ardrone/navdata message should contains a field for estimated height called altd (see here), which I believe is from the ultrasound sensor on the drone.

In general it is difficult to estimate position from an IMU, as you need to dead reckon over the acceleration values to estimate height, and this process accumulates error.

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