GPS receiver performance characterization under realistic ionospheric phase scintillation environments

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 373-390

  Morrissey, Thomas N ^a,d   Shallberg, Karl W ^a,d   Van Dierendonck, A J ^b,e   Nicholson, Matthew J ^c  

^a Zeta Associates Inc   (United States)

^b AJ Systems   (United States)

^c Naval Command   (United States)

^d Zeta Associates   (United States)

^e GPS Silicon Valley   (United States)

Author keywords

Cycle slip; GPS receiver; Ionospheric scintillation; Loss of lock; Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CARRIER-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 1942474489     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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