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below. References within the more recent of these references readily lead to further original work
dealing in depth with specific aspects of the field.
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Overviews:
Hofmann-Wellenhof, B., H. Lichtenegger, and J. Collins, GPS – Theory and Practice, SpringerVerlag, Vienna, 1994.
Kursinski, E.R., Monitoring the Earth's Atmosphere with GPS, GPS World, Mar'94 issue, 50-54,
1994.
Kirchengast, G., and H.P. Ladreiter, The potential of the radio-occultation technique based on
GPS/GLONASS signals for determining fundamental atmospheric parameters (in German),
Kleinheub. Ber., 39, 677-686, 1996.
Parkinson, B.W., and J.J. Spilker Jr. (Ed.), Global Positioning System: Theory and Applications (2
volumes), Progress in astronautics and aeronautics series (Vol.163, 763p., and Vol.164, 643p.),
Am.Inst.Aeron.Astron. (AIAA) Publ., Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1996.
Silvestrin, P., and P. Ingmann, Radio occultation observations using Global Navigation Satellite
System signals – A new tool for exploring the atmosphere, Earth Obs. Quarterly, 54, 15-18,
1997.
(Also WWW-online at http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/eoq/eoq54.htm)
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Classicals of "historical" interest:
Fjeldbo, G., and V.R. Eshleman, The bistatic radar-occultation method for the study of planetary
atmospheres, J. Geophys. Res., 70, 3217-3225, 1965.
Fjeldbo, G., A.J. Kliore, and V.R, Eshleman, The neutral atmosphere of Venus as studied with the
Mariner V radio occultation experiments, Astron. J., 76, 123-140, 1971.
Gurvich, A.S., and T.G. Krasilnikova, Navigation satellites for radio sensing of the Earth's
atmosphere, Sov. J. Rem. Sensing, 7, 1124-1131, 1990 (Russian original published 1987).
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Reviews:
Hoeg, P., et al., Derivation of atmospheric properties using a radio-occultation technique, ESA
Final Report (ESTEC Contr.No. 11024/94/NL/CN), also DMI Scientific Report 95-4 (ISBN
87-7478-331-9), 208p., 1995.
Kursinski, E.R., et al., Observing Earth's atmosphere with radio occultation measurements using the
Global Positioning System, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 23,429-23,465, 1997.
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Performance demonstration/validation:
Ware, R., et al., GPS sounding of the atmosphere from Low Earth Orbit: Preliminary results, Bull.
Amer. Met. Soc., 77, 19-40, 1996.
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