Positional accuracy of the Wide Area Augmentation System in consumer-grade GPS units

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 883-892

  Arnold, Lisa L ^a   Zandbergen, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; GPS; Positioning; WAAS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; ANALYSIS OF DATA; BROADCAST MESSAGES; CONSUMER-GRADE RECEIVERS; CONTROL POINT; DATA COLLECTION; DIFFERENTIAL CORRECTION; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FEDERAL AVIATION AUTHORITIES; GPS SIGNALS; POSITION ESTIMATES; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; POSITIONING; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TIME SPAN; VERTICAL ACCURACY; VERTICAL DIMENSIONS; WAAS; WIDE AREA AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 79958756116     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.12.011     Document Type: Article

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