Tomographic reconstruction of wet and total refractivity fields from GNSS receiver networks

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 898-912

  Notarpietro, Riccardo ^a   Cucca, Manuela ^a   Gabella, Marco ^a,b   Venuti, Giovanna ^c   Perona, Giovanni ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b MeteoSvizzera   (Switzerland)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric remote sensing; GNSS; Tomography

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSMISSION; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GNSS; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 79951810354     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.12.025     Document Type: Article

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