Consumer-grade global positioning systems (GPS) receiver performance

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 185-190

  Wing, Michael G ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Geospatial; GPS; Precision

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT ERRORS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SPACE RESEARCH; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACCURACY; CLOSED CANOPY; FOREST CANOPIES; FOREST SETTINGS; GEOSPATIAL; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; GPS; GPS RECEIVERS; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; PRECISION; RECEIVER PERFORMANCES; RELATIVE MEASUREMENTS; SIGNIFICANT FACTOR;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOREST CANOPY; GPS; PRECISION;

EID: 50149088411     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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