Impact of surface meteorological measurements on GPS height determination

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Chuan Sheng ^a   Liou, Yuei An ^a   Yeh, Ta Kang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; INSTRUMENT SCALES; METAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY; TRACKING (POSITION); TROPOSPHERE;

ANTENNA PHASE CENTER VARIATIONS; CO-LOCATED; ERROR SOURCES; GPS RECEIVERS; HEIGHT DETERMINATIONS; IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; POSITIONING PRECISION; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; ZENITH TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 60149093256     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035929     Document Type: Article

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