Degradation of navigational accuracy with global positioning system during periods of scintillation at equatorial latitudes

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1010-1011

  Bandyopadhayay, T ^a   Guha, A ^a   DasGupta, A ^a   Banerjee, P ^b   Bose, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Computerised navigation; Global positioning system

Indexed keywords

FADING (RADIO); GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; RADIO RECEIVERS; SCINTILLATION;

EQUATORIAL REGION; POSITION DILUTION OF PRECISION (PDOP); SUNSPOTS;

RADIO NAVIGATION;

EID: 0031554340     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970692     Document Type: Article

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