Pointed water vapor radiometer corrections for accurate global positioning system surveying
- 7 December 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 20 (23) , 2635-2638
- https://doi.org/10.1029/93gl02936
Abstract
Delay of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal due to atmospheric water vapor is a major source of error in GPS surveying. Improved vertical accuracy is important for sea level and polar isostasy measurements, geodesy, normal fault motion, subsidence, earthquake studies, air and ground‐based gravimetry, ice dynamics, and volcanology. We conducted a GPS survey using water vapor radiometers (WVRs) pointed toward GPS satellites to correct for azimuthal variations in water vapor. We report 2.6 mm vertical precision on a 50‐km baseline for 19 solution days. Kalman filter or least‐square corrections to the same data do not account for azimuthal distribution of water vapor and are degraded by 70%.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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