14 years of GPS tropospheric delays in the French-Italian border region: A data base for meteorological and climatological analyses

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 40, Issue 5W3, 2013, Pages 7-14

  Sguerso, Domenico ^a   Labbouz, Laurent ^b   Walpersdorf, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Climate; Databases; Geodesy; GPS; International Networks; Meteorology; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BORDER REGIONS; CLIMATE; CLIMATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GPS DATA; INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TIMES SERIES; TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS; ZENITH DELAY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84924337509     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W3-7-2013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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