Measuring GNSS multipath distributions in urban canyon environments

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 366-377

  Xie, Peng ^a   Petovello, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Global positioning system (GPS); multipath channels; urban areas

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

COHERENT INTEGRATION TIME; DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; HIGH-SENSITIVITY RECEIVERS; LINE OF SIGHT SIGNALS; RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE; URBAN AREAS; VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84920723262     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2342452     Document Type: Article

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