Analysis of inversion errors of ionospheric radio occultation

GPS Solutions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 231-239

  Wu, Xiaocheng ^a,b   Hu, Xiong ^a   Gong, Xiaoyan ^a,b   Zhang, Xunxie ^c   Wang, Xin ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetry of electron density; COSMIC; Error source; Ionospheric radio occultation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY OF ELECTRON DENSITY; COSMIC; ERROR SOURCE; IONOSPHERIC RADIO OCCULTATION; SIMULATION;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COSMOLOGY; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; GEOMAGNETISM; PHASE MEASUREMENT; RADIO; SOLAR ENERGY;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON DENSITY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; LATITUDE; METEOROLOGY; ORBIT DETERMINATION; RADIO WAVE; SATELLITE; SIMULATION;

EID: 70349978993     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-008-0116-x     Document Type: Article

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