A long-term comparison of GPS carrierphase frequency transfer and two-way satellite time/frequency transfer

38th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 485-498

  Hackman, Christine ^a   Levine, Judah ^a   Parker, Thomas E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING TIME; COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; FREQUENCY BIAS; FREQUENCY TRANSFER; RMS VALUES; SINGLE-VALUE; TWO-WAY SATELLITE TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFERS; TWO-WAY SATELLITES;

PLATINUM ALLOYS; TIME MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 52649105429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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