Comparison of GPS strain rate computing methods and their reliability

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 703-717

  Wu, Yanqiang ^a   Jiang, Zaisen ^a   Yang, Guohua ^b   Wei, Wenxin ^a   Liu, Xiaoxia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

High strain deformation zones; Instability analysis; Numerical solutions; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

CHINESE MAINLAND; COMPUTING METHODS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SPARSENESS; DELAUNAY METHOD; EDGE EFFECT; FUNCTION METHODS; GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION; GPS DATA; HIGH STRAIN DEFORMATION; INPUT DATAS; INSTABILITY ANALYSIS; LEAST-SQUARES COLLOCATION; MULTI-SURFACE; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; POOR PERFORMANCE; RESAMPLING; SAMPLE DATA; SAMPLING DATA; SATELLITE GEODESY; SIMULATED DATA; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS METHOD; STEADY CHARACTERISTIC; STEADY STATE CHARACTERISTICS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

DEFORMATION; ERRORS; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPHERES; STRAIN RATE; SURVEYING;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GPS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 79954569478     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04976.x     Document Type: Article

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