A first look at the effects of ionospheric signal bending on a globally processed GPS network

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 491-499

  Petrie, Elizabeth J ^a   King, Matt A ^a   Moore, Philip ^a   Lavallée, David A ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GPS; Higher order ionospheric terms; Ionospheric propagation; Refractive index; Signal bending

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION; GPS; IONOSPHERE; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77954457865     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-010-0386-2     Document Type: Article

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