Development of a GNSS water vapour tomography system using algebraic reconstruction techniques

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1704-1720

  Bender, Michael ^a   Dick, Galina ^a   Ge, Maorong ^a   Deng, Zhiguo ^a   Wickert, Jens ^a   Kahle, Hans Gert ^a   Raabe, Armin ^b   Tetzlaff, Gerd ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algebraic reconstruction techniques (ART); GPS; Tomography; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER VAPOR;

ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; LINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; WATER VAPOUR;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 79951813452     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.05.034     Document Type: Article

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