Ionospheric scintillation and impact on GNSS users in Northern Europe: Results of a 3 year study

Space Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 17-29

  Aquino, Marcio ^a   Rodrigues, Fabiano S ^b   Souter, Jock ^a   Moore, Terry ^a   Dodson, Alan ^a   Waugh, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

GNSS; GPS; Ionosphere; Scintillation; TEC

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCINTILLATION; USER INTERFACES;

GNSS; IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; SOLAR CYCLE; TEC;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33644599320     PISSN: 09248625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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