Study of sferic position location mechanisms

23rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2010, ION GNSS 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2241-2250

  Qiu, Di ^a   Nguyen, Thao ^b   Yang, Chun ^a  

^a SIGTEM TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; HIGHER-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; LIGHTNING STRIKES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NOISE LEVELS; POSITION LOCATIONS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; RADIO SIGNALS; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL MEASUREMENTS; TOA ESTIMATION; TOTAL LEAST SQUARES; TWO-DIMENSION; VERY LOW FREQUENCY; WAVE FORMS;

DETECTORS; LIGHTNING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RADIO NAVIGATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEFRONTS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 79960018112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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