Development and evaluation of a new 3-D ionospheric modeling method

Navigation, Journal of the Institute of Navigation

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 311-329

  Liu, Zhizhao ^a   Gao, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

HIGH-FREQUENCY (HF); IONOSPHERIC MODELING; NAVAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (NNSS); TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 17144403522     PISSN: 00281522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-4296.2004.tb00361.x     Document Type: Article

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