Mitigation of higher order ionospheric effects on GNSS users in Europe

GPS Solutions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-97

  Hoque, M Mainul ^a,b   Jakowski, N ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

GNSS positioning; Second order ionospheric correction; Signal refraction

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON DENSITY; ERROR CORRECTION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GNSS; GPS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; MITIGATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 41549118548     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-007-0069-5     Document Type: Article

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