Apparent stability of GPS monumentation from short-baseline time series

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  King, Matt A ^a   Williams, Simon D P ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; COORDINATE; ELEVATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; RANDOM WALK METHOD; THERMAL EXPANSION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 72049119071     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006319     Document Type: Article

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