Data analysis of permanent GPS networks in Italy and surrounding regions: Application of a distributed processing approach

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 897-928

  Serpelloni, Enrico ^a   Casula, Giuseppe ^a   Galvani, Alessandro ^a   Anzidei, Marco ^a   Baldi, Paolo ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Mediterranean; Continuous monitoring; Global Positioning System (GPS); Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; MONITORING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34247344845     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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