Testing of a new single-frequency GNSS carrier phase attitude determination method: Land, ship and aircraft experiments

GPS Solutions

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-28

  Teunissen, P J G ^a,b   Giorgi, G ^b   Buist, P J ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GNSS Attitude determination Integer ambiguity resolution

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SHIP TESTING;

AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; ATTITUDE DETERMINATION METHODS; CARRIER PHASE DATA; DYNAMIC EXPERIMENT; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INTEGER AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; INTEGER LEAST SQUARES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA SET; GNSS; RESEARCH VESSEL; SPACECRAFT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 78650988470     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-010-0164-x     Document Type: Article

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