Sidereal filtering based on single differences for mitigating GPS multipath effects on short baselines |
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| Authors: | Ping Zhong Xiaoli Ding Linguo Yuan Youlin Xu Kenny Kwok Yongqi Chen |
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| Institution: | (1) Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia;(2) Department of Surveying Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
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| Abstract: | Carrier-phase multipath effects are one of the most significant error sources in precise Global Positioning System (GPS) positioning
applications. A new sidereal filtering algorithm based on single differences is developed to mitigate multipath effects for
short-baseline high-rate GPS applications such as structural deformation monitoring. This method differs from traditional
sidereal filtering in that our method operates on the single differences rather than the coordinates or double differences.
A multipath model for the single differences on the reference day is established for each satellite and is used to remove
multipath errors from observations of subsequent days by taking advantage of the sidereal repeatability of multipath signals.
Using both simulated and real GPS observations, we demonstrate that this method is insensitive to different weighting strategies
used in computing single differences from double differences. Applying the proposed method can reduce the root mean square
(RMS) of positioning noises by 82% on average. Compared to sidereal filtering (in either coordinate or double differences
domain) and aspect repeat time adjustment, this method can further reduce the RMS values by 13 and 7%, respectively. Wavelet
spectra have shown that the proposed method is more effective in mitigating multipath errors of both long and short periods.
This method is also more advantageous in that it is applicable when different GPS satellites are observed on different days. |
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