On the probability distribution of GNSS carrier phase observations

GPS Solutions

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 369-379

  Luo, Xiaoguang ^a   Mayer, Michael ^a   Heck, Bernhard ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

GNSS; Hypothesis tests; Probability distribution; Residual analysis; Sample moments

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; CARRIER-PHASE MEASUREMENT; CARRIER-PHASE OBSERVATIONS; CONTROL PROCEDURES; CYCLE-SLIP DETECTION; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTIONAL PROPERTY; ESTIMATION RESULTS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GNSS; GRAPHICAL TOOLS; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; MULTI-PATH; MULTI-PATH EFFECT; NEAR-FIELD; OBSERVATION CONDITION; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; QUANTILE-QUANTILE PLOT; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RESIDUAL ANALYSIS; SAMPLE MOMENTS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA HANDLING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; METEOROLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; GNSS; HISTOGRAM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 80053111582     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-010-0196-2     Document Type: Article

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