A straightforward frequency-estimation technique for GPS Carrier-phase time transfer

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1570-1582

  Hackman, Christine ^a   Levine, Judah ^a   Parker, Thomas E ^b   Piester, Dirk ^c   Becker, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MULTIDAY ANALYSIS; TWO-WAY SATELLITE TIME-AND-FREQUENCY TRANSFER (TWSTPT);

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 33748364780     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2006.1678185     Document Type: Article

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