Computation of troposphere slant delays on a GPU

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3313-3318

  Hobiger, Thomas ^a   Ichikawa, Ryuichi ^a   Koyama, Yasuhiro ^a   Kondo, Tetsuro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Delay effects; Graphics processing unit (GPU); Parallel architectures; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; DELAY EFFECTS; GPU COMPUTATION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU); LOSS OF ACCURACY; NUMBER OF RAYS; PARALLEL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; TROPOSPHERE DELAY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TROPOSPHERE;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

GEODETIC NETWORK; GRAPHICAL METHOD; PARALLEL COMPUTING; RAY TRACING; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 70350621630     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2022168     Document Type: Article

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