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GNSS Remote Sensing of the Environment

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GNSS satellites such as GPS are playing an increasingly crucial role in tracking low earth orbiting (LEO) remote sensing satellites at altitudes below 3000 km with accuracies of better than 10 cm [2]

GNSS data provide the opportunity to observe Earth system processes with greater accuracy and detail, as they occur.

W.C. Hammond et al. [1]

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Notes

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    http://www.gdgps.net/applications/index.html.

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    Total electronic contents.

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    via http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu.

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    http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/index.html.

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    via http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu.

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    via http://www.tacc.cwb.gov.tw.

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    http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/cosmic2/index.html.

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    See, e.g., http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMV3FO4KKF_Germany_0.html.

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    http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/publications/brochure/page11.html.

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    http://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/.

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    https://eospso.nasa.gov/missions/sentinel-6.

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