Assessment of speed and position during human locomotion using nondifferential GPS

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-132

  Townshend, Andrew D ^a   Worringham, Charles J ^a   Stewart, Ian B ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Overground; Running; Satellite positioning; Speed measurement

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY; WALKING;

ADULT; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERGOMETRY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; POSTURE; RUNNING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 38049061120     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e3181590bc2     Document Type: Article

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