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Forward modeling of GPS multipath for near-surface reflectometry and positioning applications 总被引：4，自引：2，他引：2
Multipath is detrimental for both GPS positioning and timing applications. However, the benefits of GPS multipath for reflectometry have become increasingly clear for soil moisture, snow depth, and vegetation growth monitoring. Most multipath forward models focus on the code modulation, adopting arbitrary values for the reflection power, phase, and delay, or they calculate the reflection delay based on a given geometry and keep reflection power empirically defined. Here, a fully polarimetric forward model is presented, accounting for right- and left-handed circularly polarized components of the GPS broadcast signal and of the antenna and surface responses as well. Starting from the fundamental direct and reflected voltages, we have defined the interferometric and error voltages, which are of more interest in reflectometry and positioning applications. We examined the effect of varying coherence on signal-to-noise ratio, carrier phase, and code pseudorange observables. The main features of the forward model are subsequently illustrated as they relate to the broadcast signal, reflector height, random surface roughness, surface material, antenna pattern, and antenna orientation. We demonstrated how the antenna orientation—upright, tipped, or upside-down—involves a number of trade-offs regarding the neglect of the antenna gain pattern, the minimization of CDMA self-interference, and the maximization of the number of satellites visible. The forward model was also used to understand the multipath signature in GPS positioning applications. For example, we have shown how geodetic GPS antennas offer little impediment for the intake of near-grazing reflections off natural surfaces, in contrast to off metal, because of the lack of diversity with respect to the direct signal—small interferometric delay and Doppler, same sense of polarization, and similar direction of arrival. 相似文献
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吴继忠 《武汉大学学报(信息科学版)》2012,37(5):617-620
分析了GPS天线积雪对载波信号场强、功率的影响,推导了载波信号传播延迟的简化计算公式,利用精密单点定位(PPP)计算了测站在GPS天线积雪产生和消除前后的单日解。结果显示,天线积雪使得天线相位中心产生偏移,对平面和高程方向的影响为数个cm,甚至更大。 相似文献
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Multipath in global positioning system (GPS) is the interference of the microwave signals directly from satellites and those
reflected before reaching the antenna, typically by the ground. Because reflected signals cause positioning errors, GPS antennas
are designed to reduce such interference. Recent studies show that multipath could be utilized to infer the properties of
the ground around the antenna. Here, we report one such application, i.e. a fixed GPS station used as a snow depth meter.
Because the satellite moves in the sky, the excess path length of reflected waves changes at rates dependent on the antenna
height. This causes quasi-periodic variations of the amplitude and phase of the received signals. Accumulation of snow reduces
effective antenna heights, and we can see it by analyzing multipath signatures. Signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) are often used
to analyze multipath, but they are not always available in raw GPS data files. Here, we demonstrate that the geometry-free
linear combination (L4), normally used to study the ionosphere, can also be used to analyze multipath signatures. We obtained
snow depth time series at a GPS station in Hokkaido, Japan, from January to April in 2009 using L4 and SNR. Then, we compared
their precisions. We also discuss mechanisms responsible for the possible underestimation of the snow depth by GPS. Finally,
we investigate the possibility of inferring physical conditions of the snow surface using amplitudes of multipath signatures. 相似文献
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A multi-technique approach for characterizing the SVN49 signal anomaly, part 2: chip shape analysis 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
Steffen Thoelert Michael Meurer Stefan Erker Oliver Montenbruck André Hauschild Pat Fenton 《GPS Solutions》2012,16(1):29-39
Due to a satellite internal reflection at the L5 test payload, the SVN49 (PRN1) GPS satellite exhibits a static multipath
on the L1 and L2 signals, which results in elevation-dependent tracking errors for terrestrial receivers. Using a 30-m high-gain
antenna, code and carrier phase measurements as well as raw in-phase and quadrature radio frequency samples have been collected
during a series of zenith passes in mid-April 2010 to characterize the SVN49 multipath and its impact on common users. Following
an analysis of the receiver tracking data and the IQ constellation provided in Part 1 of this study, the present Part 2 provides
an in-depth investigation into chip shapes for the L1 and L2 signals. A single reflection model is found to be compatible
with the observed chip shape distortions and key parameters for an elevation dependent multipath model are derived. A good
agreement is found between multipath parameters derived independently from raw IQ-samples and measurements of a so-called
Vision Correlator. The chip shapes and their observed variation with elevation can be used to predict the multipath response
of different correlator types within a tracking receiver. The multipath model itself is suitable for implementation in a signal
simulator and thus enables laboratory testing of actual receiver hardware. 相似文献
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Multipath is one of the most important error sources in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) carrier-phase-based precise
relative positioning. Its theoretical maximum is a quarter of the carrier wavelength (about 4.8 cm for the Global Positioning
System (GPS) L1 carrier) and, although it rarely reaches this size, it must clearly be mitigated if millimetre-accuracy positioning
is to be achieved. In most static applications, this may be accomplished by averaging over a sufficiently long period of observation,
but in kinematic applications, a modelling approach must be used. This paper is concerned with one such approach: the use
of ray-tracing to reconstruct the error and therefore remove it. In order to apply such an approach, it is necessary to have
a detailed understanding of the signal transmitted from the satellite, the reflection process, the antenna characteristics
and the way that the reflected and direct signal are processed within the receiver. This paper reviews all of these and introduces
a formal ray-tracing method for multipath estimation based on precise knowledge of the satellite–reflector–antenna geometry
and of the reflector material and antenna characteristics. It is validated experimentally using GPS signals reflected from
metal, water and a brick building, and is shown to be able to model most of the main multipath characteristics. The method
will have important practical applications for correcting for multipath in well-constrained environments (such as at base
stations for local area GPS networks, at International GNSS Service (IGS) reference stations, and on spacecraft), and it can
be used to simulate realistic multipath errors for various performance analyses in high-precision positioning. 相似文献
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As GPS is modernizing, there are currently fourteen satellites transmitting L2C civil code and seven satellites transmitting L5 signal. While the GPS observables are subject to several sources of errors, the ionosphere is one of the largest error sources affecting GPS signals. Small irregularities in the electrons density along the GPS radio signal propagation path cause ionospheric scintillation that is characterized by rapid fluctuations in the signal amplitude and phase. The ionospheric scintillation effects are stronger in equatorial and high-latitude geomagnetic latitude regions and occur mainly due to equatorial anomaly and solar storms. Several researchers have analyzed the L2C signal quality since becoming available in December, 2005. We analyze the performance of L2C using GPS data from stations in the equatorial region of Brazil, which is subject of weak, moderate and strong ionospheric scintillation conditions. The GPS data were collected by Septentrio PolaRxS–PRO receivers as part of the CIGALA/CALIBRA network. The analysis was performed as a function of scintillations indexes S4 and Phi60, lock time (time interval in seconds that the carrier phase is tracked continuously without cycle slips), multipath RMS and position variation of precise point positioning solutions. The analysis shows that L2C code solutions are less affected by multipath effects than that of P2 when data are collected under weak ionospheric scintillation effects. In terms of analysis of positions, the kinematic PPP results using L2C instead P2 codes show accuracy improvements up to 33 % in periods of weak or strong ionospheric scintillation. When combining phase and code collected under weak scintillation effects, the results by applying L2C against P2 provide improvement in accuracy up to 59 %. However, for data under strong scintillation effects, the use of L2C for PPP with code and phase does not provide improvements in the positioning accuracy. 相似文献
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基于双天线全球导航卫星系统反射技术（global navigation satellite system reflectometry,GNSS-R）,建立了两个修正地表粗糙度影响的土壤湿度反演模型——解析模型和人工神经网络模型,并以GPS L1 C/A码为例建立了GNSS-R土壤湿度仿真平台,仿真分析了地表粗糙度对两个模型反演精确度的影响。结果表明,当地表均方根高度大于0.010 m时,必须对解析模型进行粗糙度修正。粗糙度影响修正结果显示,小粗糙度情况下修正的解析模型取得了良好的结果,但对于大粗糙度有一定局限性。在均方根高度大于0.025 m时,进行土壤粗糙度修正前,人工神经网络模型精度比解析模型提高了36.83%~72.36%。进行修正后,人工神经网络模型的精度比解析模型提高了42.86%~54.40%。人工神经网络模型在修正前后取得了相近的精度,无修正的人工神经网络模型精度比有修正的解析模型精度仍提高了35.83%~53.48%。 相似文献
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JPL's BlackJack receiver currently represents the most widely used geodetic grade GPS receiver for space applications. Using data from the CHAMP science mission, the in-flight performance of the BlackJack receiver has been assessed and the impact of various software updates performed during the 2.5 years since launch is described. Key aspects of the study comprise the channel allocation, anomalous data points, and the noise level of the code and carrier data. In addition, it has been demonstrated that the code measurements collected onboard the CHAMP satellite are notably affected by multipath errors in the aft-looking hemisphere, which can be attributed to cross-talk between the occultation antenna string and the primary precise orbit determination antenna. For carrier smoothed 10 s normal points, the code noise itself varies between a minimum of 5 cm at high elevations and 0.5 m (C/A) to 1.0 m (P1, P2) at 10° elevation. Carrier-phase data exhibit representative errors of 0.2 to 2.5 mm. The results of the CHAMP GPS data analysis contribute to a better understanding and possible improvement of the BlackJack receiver and support the design of optimal data editing and weighting strategies in precise orbit determination applications. 相似文献
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Anthony M. McCaffrey P. T. Jayachandran Richard B. Langley Jean-Marie Sleewaegen 《GPS Solutions》2018,22(1):23
The introduction of the unencrypted global positioning system (GPS) L2 civil (L2C) signal has the potential to improve measurements made with the L2 frequency, an important observable in GPS-based ionospheric research and monitoring. Recent work has shown significant differences between the legacy L2P(Y) and L2C-derived total electron content rate of change index (ROTI). This difference is observed between L2P(Y) and L2C-derived ROTI with certain receiver models and between zero-baseline receiver pairs. We discuss the likely cause for these differences: L1-aided tracking used to track both the L2P(Y) and L2C signals. We also present L2C data that are confirmed to be from tracking independent of L1. Using the ionospheric-free linear combination, we show that the independently tracked carrier phase dynamics are significantly more accurate than the L1-aided observables. This result is confirmed by comparing the behavior of the L2C and L2P(Y) carrier phase observables upon a sudden antenna rotation. 相似文献
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A preliminary study was conducted to evaluate the amount of pseudorange multipath at 390+ sites in the National Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) Network. The National CORS Network is a cooperative effort involving over 110 different agencies, universities, and private companies who seek to make GPS data from dual-frequency receivers located throughout the United States and its territories available to the general public. For CORS users, pseudorange multipath can seriously degrade the accuracy of any application that relies on precise measurements of the pseudorange observable over a short period of time, including differential pseudorange navigation, kinematic and rapid-static surveying, and ionospheric monitoring. The main objectives of this study were to identify the most affected and least affected sites in the network, to closely investigate problematic sites, and to compare various receiver/antenna combinations. Dual-frequency carrier phase and pseudorange measurements were used to estimate the amount of L1 and L2 pseudorange multipath at each site over a one-year period. Some of the most severely affected sites were maritime Differential GPS and Nationwide Differential GPS (DGPS/NDGPS) sites. Photographs obtained for these sites verified the presence of transmission towers and other reflectors in close proximity to the GPS antennas. Plotting the variations of the L1 and L2 pseudorange multipath with respect to azimuth and elevation further verified that even above a 60° elevation angle there was still as much as five meters of pseudorange multipath at some sites. The least affected sites were the state networks installed in Ohio and Michigan; these sites used excellent antenna mounts, choke ring antennas, and new receiver technology. A comparison of the 12 most commonly used receiver/antenna combinations in the CORS Network indicated that newer receivers such as the Ashtech UZ-12, Leica RS-500, and Trimble 5700 help to significantly mitigate pseudorange multipath, while the receivers/antennas at some DGPS/NDGPS sites, and the antennas formerly used at the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) sites, are among those most affected by pseudorange multipath. The receiver/antenna comparison did not take into account the potential presence of reflectors at the sites (i.e., it is possible that a well-performing receiver/antenna combination could have been consistently placed at very poor site locations, and vice-versa).Product Disclaimer: Mention of a commercial company or product does not constitute an endorsement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Use for publicity or advertisement purposes of information from this paper concerning proprietary products or the comparison of such products is not authorized. 相似文献
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Carrier phase ambiguity resolution on the fly is investigated using two receiver technologies, namely dual-frequency P code and high performance, single frequency, C/A code receivers. Both receiver types were used simultaneously in a series of land kinematic trials. A least-squares search technique is used to find the correct double difference carrier phase ambiguities. Both C/A and single frequency P code technologies are found to be equivalent and capable of resolving the integer ambiguities on the fly using some 30 to 200 seconds of data under benign multipath conditions. Successful ambiguity resolution on the fly results in cm-level accuracy kinematic positioning. The ambiguity resolution time required and success rate are however found to be strongly dependent on the level of carrier phase multipath and, as a consequence, on the error variance assigned to the carrier phase measurements. The use of widelaning with the dual frequency P code results in ambiguity resolution in seconds. The performance of widelaning is also superior in a comparatively high carrier phase multipath environment. 相似文献
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基于IGS的L2C信号跟踪站数据验证了具有L2C码的卫星的L2载波的信噪比高于没有L2C码的卫星的L2载波的信噪比,L2载波恢复的数据质量更好.针对不同的接收机,对比分析了C/A码和L2C码多路径效应及观测噪声水平,发现对TRIMBLE NETRS接收机,L2C码误差水平明显高于C/A码,与期望结果相反. 相似文献
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将GNSS-R/IR技术的应用领域拓展到地表冻融状态的监测中，本文利用冻融土混合介质介电常数模型计算土壤介电常数，采用双站全极化相干反射率模型和随机粗糙面散射模型，分别计算了经冻融土反射的GPS相干反射量的镜像反射率，以及GPS非相干反射分量的漫散射特性。模拟分析了冻融转换时，GPS多路径信息（GNSS-IR）以及包含漫散射信号的延迟多普勒图（GNSS-R）的变化特征。理论研究表明冻融转换过程中，地表介电常数的变化导致GPS多路径信息和延迟多普勒图的明显变化。本文从散射机理上揭示了利用GNSS-R和GNSS-IR遥感进行地表冻融特性监测的理论依据。 相似文献
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本文对全球定位系统干涉反射技术进行了研究。以美国板块边界天文台计划提供的P101测站的GPS监测数据为基础,利用GPS卫星高度角低于某一角度时多路径效应明显的特点,构建高斯过程回归(GPR)辅助的GPS干涉反射积雪深度估测模型,并监测了测站周围的积雪深度。结果表明,GPR辅助的GPS干涉反射积雪深度估测模型输出的雪深估测值的精度,相比传统单星反演结果有不同程度的提高,并且更贴近实测雪深的变化,为地表雪深反演提供了新思路。 相似文献
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Carrier phase multipath error characterization and reduction in single aircraft relative positioning
This paper describes GPS carrier phase (CP) multipath characterization and error reduction techniques and their application
in single aircraft relative positioning. In particular, the single aircraft relative positioning scenario has applications
for high-accuracy multi-sensor stabilization where CP multipath is a major error source that limits system performance. We
will briefly review the requisite multipath theory and discuss models for quantifying the error characteristics. Field-test
data will be used to validate the multipath models considering the underlying assumptions. A basic geometric reflection point
theory will be presented to demonstrate the physical environmental sensitivity of CP multipath to parameters such as surface
flatness and antenna height. Several different quantities will be described as multipath indicators for time-domain detection
and will be compared with a frequency-domain technique. A new multipath detection approach will be introduced that is suitable
to track multipath from time-varying reflection/diffraction points. Finally, the narrow-lane antenna baseline processing technique
will be presented as a real-time approach to mitigate CP noise and multipath errors that is well suited for a very short baseline
single aircraft high accuracy relative positioning system. Field-test results and analysis will be used to illustrate the
key concepts in this paper and to help characterize the total navigation system performance. 相似文献
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Geometry-free undifferenced, single and double differenced analysis of single frequency GPS, EGNOS and GIOVE-A/B measurements 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2
This paper demonstrates a geometry-free GNSS measurement analysis approach and presents results of single frequency GPS, EGNOS
and GIOVE short and zero baseline measurements. The purpose is to separate the different contributions to the measurement
noise of pseudo range code and carrier phase observations at the receiver. The influence of multipath on the different combinations
of observations is also determined. Quantitative results are presented for the thermal code and phase measurement noise and
for the correlation between the observations. Comparison of the results with theoretical approximations confirms the validity
of the used approach. Results from field measurements clearly show less thermal noise on the Galileo E1BC observations than
on the GPS L1C/A observations due to the new signal modulation. The feasibility of ambiguity resolution with a geometry-free
model is also discussed including the significant impact of multipath thereon. 相似文献
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多径信号是GPS定位的主要误差源之一。码和载波跟踪环是GPS接收机的重要组成部分，它们直接决定了接收机的性能，因此当前多径消除技术研究的核心即是从跟踪环内部着手研究。本文仔细分析了GPS接收机信号跟踪环以及多径信号对跟踪精度的影响，对伪距码与载波相位多径误差进行了比较，并且通过仿真结果和图表阐明了码和载波相位多径误差之间的协同关系。 相似文献
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GNSS信号土壤衰减模型的试验验证方法 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
GNSS（global navigation satellite system）信号在土壤中的衰减情况对于研究GNSS反射信号的有效遥感深度具有重要意义。本文通过试验研究了北斗信号与GPS（global positioning system）信号在土壤中的衰减情况。在试验设计上将GNSS天线置入土壤中并不断改变天线上方的土壤厚度与湿度以采集GNSS信号的功率衰减数据,最后利用这些数据反演土壤湿度以对GNSS信号土壤衰减模型进行验证。试验结果表明,土壤能够使GNSS信号发生明显的衰减。土壤的湿度值与厚度值越大,GNSS信号功率衰减越严重。在黏土土质,土壤湿度为0.15~0.30 cm3/cm3的情况下,当土壤厚度达到21 cm时,GNSS信号功率已衰减至无法被GNSS接收机测出。进一步根据GNSS信号衰减模型反演土壤湿度,结果显示,模型在土壤厚度大于等于10 cm、卫星仰角高于50°的情况下较为精确,此时利用北斗B1信号与GPS L1信号反演土壤湿度的均方根误差分别小于0.04 cm3/cm3与0.09 cm3/cm3。 相似文献
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Characterization of between-receiver GPS-Galileo inter-system biases and their effect on mixed ambiguity resolution 总被引：12，自引：6，他引：6
The Global Positioning System (GPS) and Galileo will transmit signals on similar frequencies, that is, the L1–E1 and L5–E5a frequencies. This will be beneficial for mixed GPS and Galileo applications in which the integer carrier phase ambiguities need to be resolved, in order to estimate the positioning unknowns with centimeter accuracy or better. In this contribution, we derive the mixed GPS + Galileo model that is based on “inter-system” double differencing, that is, differencing the Galileo phase and code observations relative to those corresponding to the reference or pivot satellite of GPS. As a consequence of this, additional between-receiver inter-system bias (ISB) parameters need to be solved as well for both phase and code data. We investigate the size and variability of these between-receiver ISBs, estimated from L1 and L5 observations of GPS, as well as E1 and E5a observations of the two experimental Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE) satellites. The data were collected using high-grade multi-GNSS receivers of different manufacturers for several zero- and short-baseline setups in Australia and the USA. From this analysis, it follows that differential ISBs are only significant for receivers of different types and manufacturers; for baselines formed by identical receiver types, no differential ISBs have shown up; thus, implying that the GPS and GIOVE data are then fully interoperable. Fortunately, in case of different receiver types, our analysis also indicates that the phase and code ISBs may be calibrated, since their estimates, based on several datasets separated in time, are shown to be very stable. When the single-frequency (E1) GIOVE phase and code data of different receiver types are a priori corrected for the differential ISBs, the short-baseline instantaneous ambiguity success rate increases significantly and becomes comparable to the success rate of mixed GPS + GIOVE ambiguity resolution based on identical receiver types. 相似文献
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GPS code pseudorange measurements exhibit group delay variations at the transmitting and the receiving antenna. We calibrated C1 and P2 delay variations with respect to dual-frequency carrier phase observations and obtained nadir-dependent corrections for 32 satellites of the GPS constellation in early 2015 as well as elevation-dependent corrections for 13 receiving antenna models. The combined delay variations reach up to 1.0 m (3.3 ns) in the ionosphere-free linear combination for specific pairs of satellite and receiving antennas. Applying these corrections to the code measurements improves code/carrier single-frequency precise point positioning, ambiguity fixing based on the Melbourne–Wübbena linear combination, and determination of ionospheric total electron content. It also affects fractional cycle biases and differential code biases. 相似文献