Ray-traced troposphere slant delays for precise point positioning

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Hobiger, Thomas ^a   Ichikawa, Ryuichi ^a   Takasu, Tomoji ^b   Koyama, Yasuhiro ^a   Kondo, Tetsuro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GPS; PPP; Ray tracing; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; GNSS; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAY TRACING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 58149253893     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bf03352809     Document Type: Article

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