The Global Positioning System (GPS) has matured to achieve relative positioning accuracies of 0.1 ppm or better. Remaining error sources that limit this accuracy are: (a) the wet tropospheric path delay suffered by the GPS signal and (b) multipath reflections. The PIs will run a GPS baseline experiment in Colorado in order to study both these errors and methods of reducing them. They will investigate the effect of azimuthal variations of the wet troposphere on the determination of GPS baselines. In order to study this effect it is necessary to suppress multipath errors that might mask the tropospheric variations.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Earth Sciences (EAR)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
8816976
Program Officer
Michael A. Mayhew
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
1989-04-15
Budget End
1990-09-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1988
Total Cost
$53,345
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Boulder
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80309