Land mobile GNSS availability and multipath evaluation tool

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1697-1704

  Marais, Juliette ^a   Berbineau, Marion ^a   Heddebaut, Marc ^a  

^a National Institute for Transport and Safety Research   (France)

Author keywords

Availability; Localization; Multipath; Radio electric coverage; Satellites

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM; RADIO ELECTRIC COVERAGE; SATELLITE CONSTELLATION;

SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS;

EID: 29044431591     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.853461     Document Type: Article

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