Clarifying the relationship between quality of global positioning system data and precision of positioning

Journal of Surveying Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-45

  Yeh, Ta Kang ^a   Chen, Yi Jao ^b   Chung, Yi Da ^c   Feng, Chung Wei ^d   Xu, Guochang ^e  

^a CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LEADER UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Department of Geodesy and Remote Sensing ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Geodetic surveys; Global positioning; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CLOCK OFFSET; CLOCK STABILITY; CYCLE SLIPS; DATA QUALITY; GEODETIC SURVEY; GEODETIC SURVEYS; GLOBAL POSITIONING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; GPS TRACKING; LONG BASE LINE; MULTI-PATH; MULTI-PATH EFFECT; NATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; POSITIONING PRECISION; SHORT DISTANCES;

CLOCKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SURVEYS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE; SURVEYING; TRACKING;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77950974327     PISSN: 07339453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)SU.1943-5428.0000001     Document Type: Article

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