On the use of ionospheric scintillation indices as input to receiver tracking models

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 426-435

  Aquino, Marcio ^a   Andreotti, Marcus ^a   Dodson, Alan ^a   Strangeways, Hal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global Navigation Satellite System; Ionospheric scintillation; Scintillation indices; Tracking errors

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION INDICES; TRACKING ERRORS;

GEODESY;

EID: 34547465212     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.035     Document Type: Article

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