Annual deformation signals from homogeneously reprocessed VLBI and GPS height time series

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 973-988

  Tesmer, Volker ^a,b   Steigenberger, Peter ^c   Rothacher, Markus ^d,e   Boehm, Johannes ^f   Meisel, Barbara ^a  

^a Deutsches Geod atisches Forschungsinstitut DGFI   (Germany)

^b OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Annual signal; GPS; Height time series; Reprocessing; Vertical deformation; VLBI

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DEFORMATION; GPS; HEIGHT; TIME SERIES;

EID: 70349599035     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-009-0316-3     Document Type: Article

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