Opus for horizontal subcentimeter-accuracy landslide monitoring: Case study in the Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Region

Journal of Surveying Engineering

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 143-153

  Wang, Guoquan ^a   Soler, Tomás ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CORS; Landslide monitoring; Observational accuracy; OPUS; Puerto rico; Virgin islands

Indexed keywords

CORS; LANDSLIDE MONITORING; OBSERVATIONAL ACCURACY; OPUS; PUERTO RICO; VIRGIN ISLANDS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; LANDSLIDES; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; SURVEYS; THUNDERSTORMS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GPS; LANDSLIDE; MONITORING SYSTEM; RAINFALL; THUNDERSTORM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; PUERTO RICO; VIRGIN ISLANDS;

EID: 84876818605     PISSN: 07339453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)SU.1943-5428.0000079     Document Type: Article

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