An investigation of the signal performance of the current and future GNSS in typical urban canyons in Australia using a high fidelity 3D urban model

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue , 2009, Pages 407-420

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

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Spatial Vision ^*  (Australia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D urban model; Global Navigation Satellite System; Location based services; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOCATION; NAVIGATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; URBAN PLANNING;

'CURRENT; 3D URBAN MODELING; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; HIGH-FIDELITY; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; OPTIMISATIONS; SIGNAL PERFORMANCE; TYPICAL URBAN; URBAN CANYONS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 85025302518     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87393-8_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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