Toward the ultimate RTK: The last challenges in long-range real-time kinematic applications

21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2268-2279

  Kim, Don ^a   Langley, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAK-UP; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DEGREE ELEVATION; DESIGN MATRIX; ELEVATION ANGLE; ERROR SOURCES; HIGH ELEVATION; ILL CONDITIONED PROBLEMS; LEAST-SQUARES ESTIMATOR; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; NEW APPROACHES; REAL-TIME KINEMATIC; RESEARCH GROUPS; SCALE FACTOR; SINGLE PARAMETER; TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS; TWO PARAMETER; WEIGHTING PROCESS; ZENITH DELAY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SATELLITES; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 70249098509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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