Velocity covariance in the presence of anisotropic time correlated noise and transient events in GPS time series

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 72, Issue , 2013, Pages 36-45

  Hackl, Matthias ^a   Malservisi, Rocco ^b   Hugentobler, Urs ^c   Jiang, Yan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colored noise; GPS time series; Slow slip event; Transient event

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ECCENTRICITY; GPS; NOISE; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888854978     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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