Assessment of noise in GPS coordinate time series: Methodology and results

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Amiri Simkooei, A R ^a,b   Tiberius, C C J M ^a   Teunissen, P J G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE; GPS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NOISE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES;

EID: 34548525839     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004913     Document Type: Article

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