New VLBI2010 scheduling strategies and implications on the terrestrial reference frames

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 449-461

  Sun, Jing ^a,b   Böhm, Johannes ^a   Nilsson, Tobias ^c   Krásná, Hana ^a   Böhm, Sigrid ^a   Schuh, Harald ^a,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BEIJING AEROSPACE CONTROL CENTER   (China)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

CRF; Scheduling; TRF; Very long baseline interferometry

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE; GEODESY; GEODETIC NETWORK; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 84898867980     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-014-0697-9     Document Type: Article

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