Altimetry precision of 1 cm over a pond using the wide-lane carrier phase of GPS reflected signals

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 394-403

  Martin Neira, M ^a   Colmenarejo, P ^b   Ruffini, G ^c   Serra, C ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b GMV   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; LAKES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ORBITS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WATERS; WIND;

CARRIER PHASE PROCESSING; CARRIER-PHASE MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; ROUGH SEA SURFACE; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS; WIND SPEED ESTIMATIONS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 33846219695     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m02-039     Document Type: Article

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