On the use of GPS receivers in railway environments

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1452-1460

  Bertran, Eduard ^a   Delgado Penín, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STANDARDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC CONTAMINATION; RAILWAY NORMATIVE; TRAIN LOCATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 4744351604     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2004.832416     Document Type: Article

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