Temporal correlations of atmospheric mapping function errors in GPS estimation

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 311-323

  Stoew, Borys ^a   Nilsson, Tobias ^a   Elgered, Gunnar ^a   Jarlemark, Per O J ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atmospheric refraction; Elevation cut off; Errors correlations; Geodetic GPS; Mapping functions; Vertical component errors

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELEVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GALILEO MISSION; GEODESY; GLONASS; GPS; MAPPING METHOD; RADIOSONDE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34248339604     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-006-0114-0     Document Type: Article

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