Real-time sensing atmospheric water vapor using precise GPS orbit and clock products

Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2343-2352

  Gao, Y ^a   Skone, S ^a   Chen, K ^a   Nicholson, N A ^a   Muellerschoen, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR MITIGATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPORS (PWV); TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; ZENITH TROPOSHERIC DELAY (ZTD);

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ORBITS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VAPORS; WATER;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 22144472997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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