Range measurement as practiced in the deep space network

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2202-2214

  Berner, Jeff B ^a   Bryant, Scott H ^a   Kinman, Peter W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep Space Network; Pseudonoise ranging; Range measurement; Sequential ranging

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; DEEP SPACE NETWORKS; PSEUDO-NOISE; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; RANGING SIGNALS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRACKING STATION; TRAJECTORY MODELS;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS;

EID: 57649230295     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.905128     Document Type: Article

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