On measurement noise in the European TWSTFT network

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1906-19012

  Piester, Dirk ^b   Bauch, Andreas ^a,b   Becker, Jürgen ^b   Staliuniene, Egle ^b   Schlunegger, Christian ^c  

^a IEEE

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^c Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie METAS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MODULATION; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SATELLITES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRANSMITTERS; TRANSPONDERS;

ALLAN DEVIATION; AVERAGING TIMES; CHIP RATES; EUROPEAN; FREQUENCY TRANSFER; GALILEO; GROUND EQUIPMENT; GROUND SEGMENTS; LINK PERFORMANCE; MEASUREMENT NOISES; NETWORK BASED; NOISE DENSITY; NOISE SOURCES; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PSEUDO-RANDOM NOISE; SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITES; TO EFFECT; TRANSMIT POWERS; TRANSMITTED SIGNALS; TWO-WAY SATELLITE TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER;

JITTER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER NETWORK; EUROPE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE FLIGHT;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EUROPE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 52649179449     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.882     Document Type: Article

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