Low Earth orbit satellite navigation errors and vertical total electron content in single-frequency GPS tracking

Radio Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Garcia Fernàndez, Miquel ^a   Montenbruck, Oliver ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NAVIGATION; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION);

EARTH ORBIT; GPS RECEIVERS; SINGLE FREQUENCY; TRACKING SYSTEMS;

SPACE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33845763941     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RS003420     Document Type: Article

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