Tracking and orbit determination performance of the GRAS instrument on MetOp-A

GPS Solutions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 289-299

  Montenbruck, Oliver ^a   Andres, Yago ^b   Bock, Heike ^c   Van Helleputte, Tom ^d   Van Den Ijssel, Jose ^d   Loiselet, Marc ^e   Marquardt, Christian ^b   Silvestrin, Pierluigi ^e   Visser, Pieter ^d   Yoon, Yoke ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AGGA 2; GRAS; MetOp; Phase center variation; Precise orbit determination; Semi codeless tracking; Tracking loops

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; ARSENIC; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; NAVIGATION; ORBITS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SPACE FLIGHT; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

AGGA-2; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS; CARRIER PHASE; CODE TRACKING; CORRELATOR; DUAL-FREQUENCY; EUROPEAN; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM; GPS RECEIVERS; GRAS; HIGH-QUALITY; METOP; NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE; OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; OFFSET CORRECTIONS; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PHASE CENTER; PHASE CENTER VARIATION; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION; RECEIVER NOISE; REDUCED DYNAMICS; SEMI-CODELESS TRACKING; SPACE-BORNE; TRACKING LOOPS; TRACKING SCHEME;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; GNSS; GPS; KINETICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRACKING;

EID: 49649127678     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-008-0091-2     Document Type: Article

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