New leveling and bias estimation algorithms for processing COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 data for slant total electron content measurements

Radio Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Stephens, P ^a   Komjathy, A ^a   Wilson, B ^a   Mannucci, Anthony ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS; BIAS ESTIMATION; GPS RECEIVERS; GPS TRANSMITTERS; IONOSPHERIC MODELING; LARGE DATA; MULTI-PATH; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; PLASMASPHERE; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT UNITS;

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 79960669149     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010RS004588     Document Type: Article

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