Spherical cap harmonic model for mapping and predicting regional TEC

GPS Solutions

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-119

  Liu, Jingbin ^a   Chen, Ruizhi ^a   Wang, Zemin ^b   Zhang, Hongping ^b  

^a FINNISH GEODETIC INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GPS; Ionosphere TEC mapping; Ionosphere TEC prediction; Regional ionosphere model; Spherical cap harmonic analysis

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; GPS; GPS DATA; GPS NETWORK; HARMONIC APPROACH; HARMONIC MODEL; IONOSPHERE MODELS; IONOSPHERIC MODEL; IONOSPHERIC TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; LEAST-SQUARES COLLOCATION; MAPPING ACCURACY; POLYNOMIAL MODELS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; REASONABLE ACCURACY; REGIONAL IONOSPHERE MODEL; RESIDUAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DOMAINS; SPHERICAL CAP HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TIME SPAN;

FORECASTING; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAPPING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPHERES;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GPS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

CHINA;

EID: 79953161731     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-010-0174-8     Document Type: Article

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