Tropospheric range-error corrections for the global positioning system

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 643-649

  Altshuler, Edward E ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global positioning system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR CORRECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

RANGE ERROR CORRECTION; SURFACE REFRACTIVITY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 0032075633     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.668906     Document Type: Article

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