Atmospheric loading corrections at the observation level in VLBI analysis

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1107-1113

  Boehm, Johannes ^a   Heinkelmann, Robert ^a,b   Mendes Cerveira, Paulo Jorge ^a,c   Pany, Andrea ^a   Schuh, Harald ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b DGFI   (Germany)

^c BEWAG Geoservice GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric loading; Terrestrial reference frame; VLBI

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; COORDINATE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; NAVIGATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 70350138462     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-009-0329-y     Document Type: Article

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