Title :
Broadband meteorological sensors co-located with GPS receivers for geophysical and atmospheric measurements
Author :
Paros, Jerome ; Yilmaz, Mustafa
Abstract :
Meteorological sensors are successfully used for precise geophysical measurements by correcting for errors caused by atmospheric delays of GPS transmissions. These delays also are used as weather-related signals to calculate integrated precipitable water vapor in the atmosphere. If the meteorological sensors used with these GPS networks include broadband barometers, then it may be possible to detect or forecast a wide range of phenomena such as fog, rainfall, floods, storms, aircraft wake turbulence and wind shear, as well as seismic and nuclear events.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; atmospheric humidity; fog; meteorological instruments; rain; storms; GPS receivers; aircraft wake turbulence; atmospheric delays; atmospheric measurements; broadband barometers; broadband meteorological sensors; floods; fog; geophysical measurements; integrated precipitable water vapor; rainfall; seismic events; storms; weather-related signals; wind shear; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Delay; Error correction; Event detection; Geophysical measurements; Global Positioning System; Meteorology; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wind forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Position Location and Navigation Symposium, 2002 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7251-4
DOI :
10.1109/PLANS.2002.998900