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Some tests of wet tropospheric calibration for the CASA Uno Global Positioning System experimentWet tropospheric path delay can be a major error source for Global Positioning System (GPS) geodetic experiments. Strategies for minimizing this error are investigted using data from CASA Uno, the first major GPS experiment in Central and South America, where wet path delays may be both high and variable. Wet path delay calibration using water vapor radiometers (WVRs) and residual delay estimation is compared with strategies where the entire wet path delay is estimated stochastically without prior calibration, using data from a 270-km test baseline in Costa Rica. Both approaches yield centimeter-level baseline repeatability and similar tropospheric estimates, suggesting that WVR calibration is not critical for obtaining high precision results with GPS in the CASA region.
Document ID
19900040323
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Dixon, T. H.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wolf, S. Kornreich
(JPL Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 17
ISSN: 0094-8276
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
90A27378
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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