Development and testing of a new ray-tracing approach to GNSS carrier-phase multipath modelling

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 713-732

  Lau, Lawrence ^a   Cross, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GNSS; Multipath characteristics; Multipath simulation; Phase multipath; Ray tracing; Reflectivity

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GNSS; GPS; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECISION; RAY TRACING; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 35748937634     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-007-0139-z     Document Type: Article

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