Effect of small-scale atmospheric inhomogeneity on positioning accuracy with GPS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2289-2292

  Bock, Olivier ^a   Tarniewicz, Jérôme ^b   Thom, Christian ^b   Pelon, Jacques ^c  

^a Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^b INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC INHOMOGENEITY;

GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERE; BOUNDARY LAYER; GPS; HETEROGENEITY;

EXTERNAL CALIBRATION; INDEX OF REFRACTION; INHOMOGENEITIES; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; SOUNDING TECHNIQUES; ZENITH TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS;

EID: 0035362708     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011985     Document Type: Article

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