Strategies to mitigate aliasing of loading signals while estimating GPS frame parameters

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Collilieux, Xavier ^a   van Dam, Tonie ^b   Ray, Jim ^c   Coulot, David ^a   Métivier, Laurent ^a,d   Altamimi, Zuheir ^a  

^a INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Geocenter motion; GNSS; GPS; Loading effects; Terrestrial Reference Frame

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GEODYNAMICS; GNSS; GPS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALIAS;

EID: 84855193264     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-011-0487-6     Document Type: Article

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