Improving the estimation of uncalibrated fractional phase offsets for PPP ambiguity resolution

Journal of Navigation

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 513-529

  Li, Xingxing ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaohong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Precise Point Positioning (PPP); Uncalibrated Fractional Offsets (UFOs); Zero Difference (ZD) Integer Ambiguity Resolution

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; CARRIER PHASE AMBIGUITY; CONVERGENCE TIME; DATA SETS; FIXED INTEGERS; INTEGER AMBIGUITY; INTEGER AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; PHASE OFFSETS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; PRECISE POINT POSITIONING; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; REFERENCE NETWORK; UNCALIBRATED FRACTIONAL OFFSETS (UFOS);

DATA PROCESSING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; SATELLITES;

ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; POSITIONING SYSTEM; PRECISION; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84870905583     PISSN: 03734633     EISSN: 14697785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463312000112     Document Type: Article

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