On the nature of GPS draconitic year periodic pattern in multivariate position time series

Plate tectonics studies using GPS require proper analysis of time series, in which all functional effects are understood and all stochastic effects are captured using an appropriate noise assessment technique. Both issues are addressed in this contribution. Estimates of spatial correlation, time correlated noise, and multivariate power spectrum...

Riverbed sediment classification using multi-beam echo-sounder backscatter data

A method has recently been developed that employs multi-beam echo-sounder backscatter data to both obtain the number of sediment classes and discriminate between them by applying the Bayes decision rule to multiple hypotheses [ Simons and Snellen, Appl. Acoust. 70, 1258–1268 (2009) ]. In deep water, the number of scatter pixels within the beam...

Noise in multivariate GPS position time-series

A methodology is developed to analyze a multivariate linear model, which occurs in many geodetic and geophysical applications. Proper analysis of multivariate GPS coordinate time-series is considered to be an application. General, special, and more practical stochastic models are adopted to assess the noise characteristics of multivariate time...