In-flight performance analysis of the CHAMP BlackJack GPS Receiver

GPS Solutions

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 74-86

  Montenbruck, Oliver ^a   Kroes, Remco ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BlackJack; CHAMP; Multipath; Receiver noise

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); GEODETIC SATELLITES; ORBITS; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

BLACKJACK; CARRIER PHASE DATA; CHAMP; IN-FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; MULTIPATH; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION; RECEIVER NOISE; WEIGHTING STRATEGIES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84880349591     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-003-0055-5     Document Type: Article

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