Characterisation of current and future GNSS performance in urban canyons using a high quality 3-D urban model of Melbourne, Australia

Journal of Applied Geodesy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-24

  Gang jun, Liu ^a   Kefei, Zhang ^a   Falin, Wu ^a   Liam, Densley ^b   Retscher, Günther ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Spatial Vision ^*  (Australia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

deformation analysis; image assisted total station; Image based measurement system; knowledge based system; learning; sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885374558     PISSN: 18629016     EISSN: 18629024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JAG.2009.002     Document Type: Article

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