Parallel Gibbs sampling for computing and propagating large covariance matrices

ZFV - Zeitschrift fur Geodasie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-42

  Koch, Karl Rudolf ^a   Kusche, Jürgen ^b   Boxhammer, Christian ^a   Gundlich, Brigitte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GRAVIMETRY; MATRIX; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 1942437427     PISSN: 16188950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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