Precise geodesy with the Very Long Baseline Array

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 859-876

  Petrov, Leonid ^a   Gordon, David ^b   Gipson, John ^b   MacMillan, Dan ^b   Ma, Chopo ^b   Fomalont, Ed ^c   Walker, R Craig ^d   Carabajal, Claudia ^e  

^a ADNET SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate systems; Plate tectonics; VLBA; VLBI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COORDINATE; GEODESY; GEODETIC NETWORK; PLATE TECTONICS; PRECISION; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 69249211255     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-009-0304-7     Document Type: Article

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