Availability impact on GPS aviation due to strong ionospheric scintillation

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1963-1973

  Seo, Jiwon ^a   Walter, Todd ^a   Enge, Per ^a  

^a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SCINTILLATION; AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS; CARRIER TRACKING; ELECTRON DENSITY IRREGULARITIES; EQUATORIAL AREA; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; GPS RECEIVERS; HIGHER NOISE LEVELS; IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; MINIMUM OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS; SIGNAL FADING; SMOOTHING FILTERS; SOLAR MAXIMA; UPPER BOUND; WIDE AREA AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS;

AVIATION; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRACKING (POSITION);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 79960120485     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2011.5937276     Document Type: Article

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