Investigating the impact of ionospheric scintillation using a GPS software receiver

Proceedings of the 18th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1126-1137

  Skone, S ^a,b,c   Lachapelle, G ^a,d   Yao, D ^a   Yu, W ^a   Watson, R ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b International Study Group

^c Canadian Navigation Society   (Canada)

^d Department of Wireless Location ^*

^e PLAN Research Group

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GPS OPERATIONS; NAVIGATION CAPABILITIES; PHASE VARIATIONS; SIGNAL LOCK;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 33646547938     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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