Analysis of the utility of NOAA-generated tropospheric refraction corrections for the next generation nationwide DGPS service

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1288-1297

  Bisnath, Sunil B ^a   Dodd, David ^b   Cleveland, Allen ^c   Parsons, Michael ^c,d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c United States Coast Guard ^*  (United States)

^d University of Southern Mississippi ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ENGINEERING; POSITION DOMAIN; TROPOSHERIC DELAYS; TROPOSPHERIC REFRACTION;

ASTROPHYSICS; CONTROL THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; PHASE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 22144485608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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