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WAAS and the Ionosphere – A Historical Perspective: Monitoring Storms

Lawrence Sparks, Eric Altshuler, Nitin Pandya, Juan Blanch, and Todd Walter
NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation March 2022, 69 (1) navi.503; DOI: https://doi.org/10.33012/navi.503
Lawrence Sparks
1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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2Sequoia Research Corporation
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3Raytheon Technologies Corporation
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4Stanford University
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    • 1 INTRODUCTION
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