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Boulat, B.

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Sudden ionospheric delay decorrelation and its impact on WAAS

In the absence of selective availability, the ionosphere represents the largest source of positioning error for single-frequency users of the GPS. In differential GPS systems such as the Wide Angle Augmentation System, vertical ionospheric delays are modeled at regularly-spaced intervals in latitude and longitude. The broadcast bound on the error at each of these points is designated the grid ionospheric vertical erorr (GIVE). A critical integrity requirement of WAAS is that the broadcast GIVE bounds residual error with a very high degree of confidence.

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