A proposal for modelling physical correlations of GPS phase observations

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 601-612

  Schön, Steffen ^a   Brunner, Fritz K ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

GPS; Physical correlations; Refractivity fluctuations; Turbulence theory

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COORDINATE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GPS; SATELLITE DATA; STOCHASTICITY; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 54049097610     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-008-0211-3     Document Type: Article

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