Characterization of site-specific GPS errors using a short-baseline network of braced monuments at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Hill, Emma M ^a   Davis, James L ^a   Elósegui, Pedro ^b   Wernicke, Brian P ^c   Malikowski, Eric ^a   Niemi, Nathan A ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GPS; MONUMENT; THERMAL EXPANSION;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 72049115750     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006027     Document Type: Article

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