Experimental assessment of the accuracy of GPS and RTS for the determination of the parameters of oscillation of major structures

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 389-403

  Psimoulis, Panos A ^a   Stiros, Stathis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LEAST-SQUARE-BASED SOFTWARE; ROBOTIC TOTAL STATIONS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMPLITUDE; COORDINATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GPS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; OSCILLATION; RIGIDITY; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 43049139554     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2008.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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