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In this article, an algorithm for clock offset estimation of the GPS satellites is presented. The algorithm is based on a
Kalman-filter and processes undifferenced code and carrier-phase measurements of a global tracking network. The clock offset
and drift of the satellite clocks are estimated along with tracking station clock offsets, tropospheric zenith path delay
and carrier-phase ambiguities. The article provides a brief overview of already existing near-real-time and real-time clock
products. The filter algorithm and data processing scheme is presented. Finally, the accuracy of the orbit and clock product
is assessed with a precise orbit determination of the MetOp satellite and compared to results gained with other real-time
products.
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| André HauschildEmail: |
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Since the assumption of all stations tracking the same satellites with identical weights was previously employed by Shen and
Xu (GPS Solut 12:99–108, 2008) to derive the simplified GNSS single- and double-differenced equivalent equations, this supplementary paper expands these
simplified equations in the case of each station tracking different satellites with elevation-dependent weights. Numerical
experiments are performed to demonstrate the computational efficiency of the simplified equivalent algorithm relative to the
traditional method in various scenarios of multi-baseline solutions with tracking different satellites. The fast computational
speed of the simplified equivalent algorithm will potentially benefit the local, regional and even global GNSS multi-baseline
solutions as well as the combined GNSS application.
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| Guochang XuEmail: |
3.
The EUREF permanent network (EPN) is a network of continuously operating global navigation satellite system (GNSS) stations, primarily installed for reference frame maintenance. In order to ensure the long term reliability of the EPN products, a thorough station performance monitoring has been initiated and carried out in addition to the routine GNSS data management, processing and analysis. This paper addresses the main factors influencing the quality of the coordinate time series in a permanent GNSS network. Relevant examples, based on the EPN experience are given, the analysis strategy is introduced, the estimated coordinate offsets are published and the importance of this analysis for site velocity estimation is demonstrated. The results are derived from the analysis of the EPN weekly combined solutions covering the period from 1996 to 2003. Our target is the identification, interpretation and elimination of offsets and outliers present in the EPN coordinate time series in order to estimate reliable coordinates and velocities and consequently maintain a high quality kinematic reference network.
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| A. KenyeresEmail: Fax: +36-1-27374982 |
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In this paper a MATLAB toolbox for determining the attitude of a rigid platform by means of multiple non-dedicated antennas
using global positioning system is presented. The programs embedded in this toolbox cover the RINEX data analysis, single
point positioning, differential positioning, coordinate conversion, attitude determination, and other auxiliary functions.
After forming the baselines through double-differenced (carrier phase smoothed) code observables, the attitude parameters
are obtained by applying the direct attitude computation and the least squares attitude estimation. The theoretical background
is summarized, and some hints regarding the software implementation are given in the paper. Moreover, improvements yielding
an expanded functionality are proposed.
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| Zhen DaiEmail: |
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Oliver Montenbruck Miquel Garcia-Fernandez Yoke Yoon Steffen Schön Adrian Jäggi 《GPS Solutions》2009,13(1):23-34
Phase center variations of the receiver and transmitter antenna constitute a remaining uncertainty in the high precision orbit
determination (POD) of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites using GPS measurements. Triggered by the adoption of absolute phase
patterns in the IGS processing standards, a calibration of the Sensor Systems S67-1575-14 antenna with GFZ choke ring has
been conducted that serves as POD antenna on various geodetic satellites such as CHAMP, GRACE and TerraSAR-X. Nominal phase
patterns have been obtained with a robotic measurement system in a field campaign and the results were used to assess the
impact of receiver antenna phase patterns on the achievable positioning accuracy. Along with this, phase center distortions
in the actual spacecraft environment were characterized based on POD carrier phase residuals for the GRACE and TerraSAR-X
missions. It is shown that the combined ground and in-flight calibration can improve the carrier phase modeling accuracy to
a level of 4 mm which is close to the pure receiver noise. A 3.5 cm (3D rms) consistency of kinematic and reduced dynamic
orbit determination solutions is achieved for TerraSAR-X, which presumably reflects the limitations of presently available
GPS ephemeris products. The reduced dynamic solutions themselves match the observations of high grade satellite laser ranging
stations to 1.5 cm but are potentially affected by cross-track biases at the cm-level. With respect to the GPS based relative
navigation of TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X formation, the in-flight calibration of the antenna phase patterns is considered essential
for an accurate modeling of differential carrier phase measurements and a mm level baseline reconstruction.
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| Oliver MontenbruckEmail: |
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The architecture of the ultra-tight GPS/INS/PL integration is the key to its successful performance; the main feature of this
architecture is the Doppler feedback to the GPS receiver tracking loops. This Doppler derived from INS, when integrated with
the carrier tracking loops, removes the Doppler due to vehicle dynamics from the GPS/PL signal thereby achieving a significant
reduction in the carrier tracking loop bandwidth. The bandwidth reduction provides several advantages such as: improvement
in anti-jamming performance, and increase in post correlated signal strength which in turn increases the dynamic range and
accuracy of measurements. Therefore, any degradation in the derived Doppler estimates will directly affect the tracking loop
bandwidth and hence its performance. The quadrature signals from the receiver correlator, I (in-phase) and Q (quadrature),
form the measurements, whereas the inertial sensor errors, position, velocity and attitude errors form the states of the complementary
Kalman filter. To specify a reliable measurement model of the filter for this type of integrated system, a good understanding
of GPS/PL signal characteristics is essential. It is shown in this paper that phase and frequency errors are the variables
that relate the measurements and the states in the Kalman filter. The main focus of this paper is to establish the fundamental
mathematical relationships that form the measurement model, and to show explicitly how the system error states are related
to the GPS/PL signals. The derived mathematical relationships encapsulated in a Kalman filter, are tested by simulation and
shown to be valid.
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| Ravindra Babu (Corresponding author)Email: |
| Jinling WangEmail: |
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In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning, the receiver measures the pseudorange with respect to each observable
navigation satellite and determines the position and clock bias. In addition to the GPS, several other navigation satellite
constellations including Glonass, Galileo and Compass can/will also be used to provide positioning, navigation, and timing
information. The paper is concerned with the solvability of the navigation problem when the receiver attempts to process measurements
from different constellations. As two different constellations may not be time-synchronized, the navigation problem involves
the determination of position of the receiver and clock bias with respect to each constellation. The paper describes an analytic
approach to account for the two-constellation navigation problem with three measurements from one constellation and two measurements
from another constellation. It is shown that the two-constellation GNSS navigation problem becomes the solving of a set of
two simultaneous quadratic equations or, equivalently, a quartic equation. Furthermore, the zero-crossover of the leading
coefficient and the sign of the discriminant of the quartic equation are shown to play a significant role in governing the
solvability, i.e., the existence and uniqueness of the navigation solutions.
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| Jyh-Ching JuangEmail: |
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A constrained LAMBDA method for GPS attitude determination 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
An improved method to obtain fixed integer ambiguity in GPS attitude determination is presented. Known conditions are utilized
as constraints to acquire attitude information when the float solution and its variance–covariance matrix are not accurate
enough. The searching ellipsoidal region is first expanded to compensate for errors caused by the inaccurate float solution.
Then the constraints are used to shrink the region to a proper size, which maintains the true integer ambiguity. Experimental
results demonstrate that this scheme gives a fast search time and a higher success rate in determining the fixed integer ambiguity
than the unconstrained method. The accuracy of attitude angles is also improved.
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| Bo WangEmail: |
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Analysis of inversion errors of ionospheric radio occultation 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
The retrieved electron density profile of ionospheric radio occultation (RO) simulation data can be compared with the background
model value during the simulation and the inversion error can be obtained exactly. This paper studies the inversion error
of ionospheric RO through simulation. The sources of the inversion errors are analyzed. The impacts of measurement errors,
such as the errors in phase measurements and satellite orbits, are very small and can be neglected. The approximation of straight-line
propagation introduces errors at the height of the F1 layer under solar maximum condition. The spherical symmetry approximation
of the electron density distribution is found to be the main source of the inversion error. The statistical results reveal
some characteristics of the inversion errors. (1) The relative error increases with enhanced solar activity. (2) It is larger
in winter than in equinox season, and it is smallest in summer. (3) For all seasons, it is smaller at middle latitude than
at other latitudes. (4) For all seasons and geomagnetic latitudes, it is smaller at daytime than at other times. The NmF2
of the ROs from COSMIC are compared with the measurements of ionosondes, and the relative differences show the same dependencies
on season, geomagnetic latitude and local time, as the relative errors of the simulated ionospheric ROs.
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| Xiaocheng WuEmail: |
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Pitch and roll attitude estimation of a small-scaled helicopter using single antenna GPS with gyroscopes 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
A method is presented for estimating the roll and pitch attitude of a small-scaled unmanned helicopter based on the velocity
measurements of the global positioning system (GPS). The small-scaled helicopter is a radio controlled (RC) model which is
readily available and affordable for academic laboratories as a research platform. Only one single antenna GPS receiver is
equipped on the RC helicopter to acquire the velocity measurements needed for the attitude estimation. The velocity information
is recorded by the onboard computer for post-processing. An attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) is used to provide
the reference attitudes. The required angular rates and heading for this study are also given by the gyroscopes and compass
of the AHRS for the sake of system’s simplification. The Kalman filter is applied to estimate the helicopter’s accelerations
by using the GPS velocity measurements. The estimated accelerations form the fundamental elements of synthesizing the pseudo-roll
and the pseudo-pitch. With some legitimate simplifications and assumptions, the relation between the helicopter’s attitudes
and the accelerations estimated from the GPS velocity measurements can be developed. Furthermore, to enhance the accuracy
of the pseudo-attitudes, the angular rates acquired from the gyroscopes are incorporated into the estimation algorithm of
pseudo-attitudes by using a complementary filter.
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| Fei-Bin HsiaoEmail: |
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Troposphere zenith path delays derived from the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) numerical weather model (NWM) are compared
with those of the International GNSS Service (IGS) solutions over a 1.5-year period at 18 globally distributed IGS stations.
Meteorological parameters can be interpolated from the NWM model at any location and at any time after December 2004. The
meteorological parameters extracted from the NWM model agree with in situ direct measurements at some IGS stations within
1 mbar for pressure, 3° for temperature and 13% for relative humidity. The hydrostatic and wet components of the zenith path
delay (ZPD) are computed using the meteorological parameters extracted from the NWM model. The total ZPDs derived from the
GDAS NWM agree with the IGS ZPD solutions at 3.0 cm RMS level with biases of up to 4.5 cm, which can be attributed to the
wet ZPDs estimates from the NWM model, considering the less accurate interpolated relative humidity parameter. Based on this
study, it is suggested that the availability and the precision of the GDAS NWM ZPD should be sufficient for nearly all GPS
navigation solutions.
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| Constantin-Octavian AndreiEmail: |
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Ionospheric delay corrections for single-frequency GPS receivers over Europe using tomographic mapping 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1
The majority of navigation satellites receivers operate on a single frequency and experience a positioning error due to the
ionospheric delay. This can be compensated for using a variety of approaches that are compared in this paper. The study focuses
on the last solar maximum. A 4D tomographic imaging technique is used to map the ionospheric electron density over the European
region during 2002 and 2003. The electron density maps are then used to calculate the excess propagation delay on the L1 frequency
experienced by GPS receivers at selected locations across Europe. The excess delay is applied to correct the pseudo-range
single frequency observations at each location and the improvements to the resulting positioning are calculated. The real-time
tomographic technique is shown to give navigation solutions that are better than empirical modelling methods and approach
the accuracy of the full dual-frequency solution. The improvements in positioning accuracy vary from day to day depending
on ionospheric conditions but can be up to 25 m during mid-day during these solar maximum conditions at European mid-latitudes.
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| Damien J. AllainEmail: |
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Reliability analysis is inseparably connected with the formulation of failure scenarios, and common test statistics are based on specific assumptions. This is easily overlooked when processing observation differences. Poor failure identification performance and misleading pre-analysis results, mainly meaningless minimum detectable biases and external reliability measures, are the consequence. A reasonable failure scenario for use with differenced GNSS observations is formulated which takes into account that individual outliers in the original data affect more than one processed observation. The proper test statistics and reliability indicators are given for use with correlated observations and both batch processing and Kalman filtering. It is also shown that standardized residuals and redundancy numbers fail completely when used with double differenced observations.
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| Andreas WieserEmail: Phone: +43-316-8736323Fax: +43-316-8736820 |
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Separate space- or time-lags have been considered regularly in data analyses; as space–time models are more recently being
studied extensively in data analytic fashion, joint estimation of both lags has to be considered explicitly. This paper addresses
this issue, taking into special consideration parametric parsimony together with specification richness; use of the bivariate
Poisson frequency distribution is advocated and applied to an empirical case. The relation of this approach to random effects
specifications is investigated. Data for Belgian regional products constitute the empirical case study.
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| Daniel A. GriffithEmail: |
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Show me the code: spatial analysis and open source 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2
Sergio J. Rey 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2009,11(2):191-207
This paper considers the intersection of academic spatial analysis with the open source revolution. Its basic premise is that
the potential for cross-fertilization between the two is rich, yet some misperceptions about these two communities pose challenges
to realizing these opportunities. The paper provides a primer on the open source movement for academicians with an eye towards
correcting these misperceptions. It identifies a number of ways in which increased adoption of open source practices in spatial
analysis can enhance the development of the next generation of tools and the wider practice of scientific research and education.
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| Sergio J. ReyEmail: |
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Oliver Montenbruck Yago Andres Heike Bock Tom van Helleputte Jose van den Ijssel Marc Loiselet Christian Marquardt Pierluigi Silvestrin Pieter Visser Yoke Yoon 《GPS Solutions》2008,12(4):289-299
The global navigation satellite system receiver for atmospheric sounding (GRAS) on MetOp-A is the first European GPS receiver
providing dual-frequency navigation and occultation measurements from a spaceborne platform on a routine basis. The receiver
is based on ESA’s AGGA-2 correlator chip, which implements a high-quality tracking scheme for semi-codeless P(Y) code tracking
on the L1 and L2 frequency. Data collected with the zenith antenna on MetOp-A have been used to perform an in-flight characterization
of the GRAS instrument with focus on the tracking and navigation performance. Besides an assessment of the receiver noise
and systematic measurement errors, the study addresses the precise orbit determination accuracy achievable with the GRAS receiver.
A consistency on the 5 cm level is demonstrated for reduced dynamics orbit solutions computed independently by four different
agencies and software packages. With purely kinematic solutions, 10 cm accuracy is obtained. As a part of the analysis, an
empirical antenna offset correction and preliminary phase center correction map are derived, which notably reduce the carrier
phase residuals and improve the consistency of kinematic orbit determination results.
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| Oliver MontenbruckEmail: |
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Network-based geometry-free three carrier ambiguity resolution and phase bias calibration 总被引：5，自引：2，他引：3
Continuously operating reference stations (CORS) are increasingly used to deliver real-time and near-real-time precise positioning
services on a regional basis. A CORS network-based data processing system uses either or both of the two types of measurements:
(1) ambiguity-resolved double-differenced (DD) phase measurements, and (2) phase bias calibrated zero-differenced (ZD) phase
measurements. This paper describes generalized, network-based geometry-free models for three carrier ambiguity resolution
(TCAR) and phase bias estimation with DD and ZD code and phase measurements. First, the geometry-free TCAR models are constructed
with two Extra-Widelane (EWL)/Widelane (WL) virtual observables to allow for rapid ambiguity resolution (AR) for DD phase
measurements without distance constraints. With an ambiguity-resolved WL phase measurement and the ionospheric estimate derived
from the two EWL observables, an additional geometry-free equation is formed for the third virtual observable linearly independent
of the previous two. AR with the third geometry-free model requires a longer period of observations for averaging than the
first two, but is also distance-independent. A more general formulation of the geometry-free model for a baseline or network
is also introduced, where all the DD ambiguities can be more rigorously resolved using the LAMBDA method. Second, the geometry-free
models for calibration of three carrier phase biases of ZD phase measurements are similarly defined for selected virtual observables.
A network adjustment procedure is then used to improve the ZD phase biases with known DD integer constraints. Numerical results
from experiments with 24-h dual-frequency GPS data from three US CORS stations baseline lengths of 21, 56 and 74 km confirm
the theoretical predictions concerning AR reliability of the network-based geometry-free algorithms.
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| Chris RizosEmail: |
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Identifying barriers of species and characterize their effects on spatial distribution provide essential information to research
in landscape genetics. We propose a weighted difference barrier (WDB) method as an alternative to maximum difference barriers
(MDB), and to initiate and integrate more spatial modeling and methods into the problem solving process. Overall, WDB provides
quick and straightforward improvements to the drawbacks of MDB. WDB integrates more sample location relationships into the
barrier construction and reveals potential barriers that would otherwise go undetected. WDB incorporates both within group
and between group genetic information, and delineates the barriers as a more complex pattern.
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| John RadkeEmail: |
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Digital mobile mapping, the method that integrates digital imaging with direct geo-referencing, has developed rapidly over
the past 15 years. The Kalman filter (KF) is considered an optimal estimation tool for real-time INS/GPS integrated kinematic
positioning and orientation determination. However, the accuracy requirements of general mobile mapping applications cannot
be easily achieved even when using the KF scheme. Therefore, this study proposes an intelligent scheme combining ANN and RTS
backward smoother to overcome the limitations of KF and to enhance the overall accuracy of attitude determination for tactical
grade and MEMS INS/GPS integrated systems.
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| Yun-Wen Huang (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Engineering projects that require deformation monitoring frequently utilize geodetic sensors to measure displacements of target
points located in the deformation zone. In situations where control stations and targets are separated by a kilometer or more,
GPS can offer higher precision position updates at more frequent intervals than can normally be achieved using total station
technology. For large-scale deformation projects requiring the highest precision, it is therefore advisable to use a combination
of the two sensors. In response to the need for high precision, continuous GPS position updates in harsh deformation monitoring
environments, a software has been developed that employs triple-differenced carrier-phase measurements in a delayed-state
Kalman filter. Two data sets were analyzed to test the capabilities of the software. In the first test, a GPS antenna was
displaced using a translation stage to mimic slow deformation. In the second test, data collected at a large open pit mine
were processed. It was shown that the delayed-state Kalman filter developed could detect millimeter-level displacements of
a GPS antenna. The actual precision attained depends upon the amount of process noise infused at each epoch to accommodate
the antenna displacements. Higher process noise values result in quicker detection times, but at the same time increase the
noise in the solutions. A slow, 25 mm displacement was detected within 30 min of the full displacement with sigma values in
E, N and U of ±10 mm or better. The same displacement could also be detected in less than 5 h with sigma values in E, N and U of ±5 mm or better. The software works best for detecting long period deformations (e.g., 20 mm per day or less) for which
sigma values of 1–2 mm are attained in all three solution components. It was also shown that the triple-differenced carrier-phase
observation can be used to significantly reduce the effects of residual tropospheric delay that would normally plague double-differenced
observations in harsh GPS environments.
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| Don KimEmail: |