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GPS + Galileo + BeiDou precise point positioning with triple-frequency ambiguity resolution / Pan Li in GPS solutions, Vol 24 n° 3 (July 2020)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > Vol 24 n° 3 (July 2020) . - 13 p. Titre : GPS + Galileo + BeiDou precise point positioning with triple-frequency ambiguity resolution Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Pan Li, Auteur ; Xinyuan Jiang, Auteur ; Xiaohong Zhang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 13 p. Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] constellation Galileo [Termes IGN] décalage d'horloge [Termes IGN] erreur systématique interfréquence d'horloge [Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou [Termes IGN] positionnement par Galileo [Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes IGN] temps de convergence [Termes IGN] triple différence Résumé : (auteur) Along with the rapid development of GNSS, not only BeiDou, but also Galileo, and the newly launched GPS satellites can provide signals on three frequencies at present. To fully take advantage of the multi-frequency multi-system GNSS observations on precise point positioning (PPP) technology, this study aims to implement the triple-frequency ambiguity resolution (AR) for GPS, Galileo, and BeiDou-2 combined PPP using the raw observation model. The processing of inter-frequency clock bias (IFCB) estimation and correction in the context of triple-frequency PPP AR has been addressed, with which the triple-frequency uncalibrated phase delay (UPD) estimation is realized for real GPS observations for the first time. In addition, the GPS extra-wide-line UPD quality is significantly improved with the IFCB correction. Because of not being contaminated by the IFCB, the raw UPD estimation method is directly employed for Galileo which currently has 24 satellites in operation. An interesting phenomenon is found that all Galileo satellites except E24 have a zero extra-wide-lane UPD value. With the multi-GNSS observations provided by MGEX covering 15 days, the positioning solutions of GPS + Galileo + BeiDou triple-frequency PPP AR have been conducted and analyzed. The triple-frequency kinematic GNSS PPP AR can achieve an averaged 3D positioning error of 2.2 cm, and an averaged convergence time of 10.8 min. The average convergence time can be reduced by triple-frequency GNSS PPP AR by 15.6% compared with dual-frequency GNSS PPP AR, respectively. However, the additional third frequency has only a marginal contribution to positioning accuracy after convergence. Numéro de notice : A2020-325 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-00992-1 Date de publication en ligne : 27/05/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-00992-1 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95205 [article]

Kalman-filter-based undifferenced cycle slip estimation in real-time precise point positioning / Pan Li in GPS solutions, vol 23 n° 4 (October 2019)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 23 n° 4 (October 2019) Titre : Kalman-filter-based undifferenced cycle slip estimation in real-time precise point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Pan Li, Auteur ; Xinyuan Jiang, Auteur ; Xiaohong Zhang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] filtre de Kalman [Termes IGN] glissement de cycle [Termes IGN] interruption du signal [Termes IGN] mesurage de phase [Termes IGN] modèle mathématique [Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] précision du positionnement [Termes IGN] station GLONASS [Termes IGN] station GPS [Termes IGN] temps réel Résumé : (Auteur) Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) precise point positioning (PPP) requires continuous carrier-phase observations to achieve a solution of high precision. Precisely correcting cycle slips caused by signal interruptions is crucial for recovering the data continuity. Most of the existing approaches usually employ only data of one epoch after the interruption for real-time cycle slip processing. In this study, we propose to introduce and estimate cycle slip parameters together with standard PPP parameters, such as position, ionospheric delay, and ambiguities in the case that possible cycle slips are detected, using a Kalman-filter-based procedure with the undifferenced and uncombined PPP model. The integer search strategy is used to fix cycle slips. To reduce the probability of wrong integer fixing, a strict integer validation threshold is suggested. As a result, it is not easy to fix all cycle slips with only one epoch of data. Our approach can be easily extended to use multi-epoch observations to enhance the cycle slip estimation. Once the cycle slips are correctly determined, continuous PPP can be achieved instantaneously. This new approach is tested and validated with three groups of experiments using GPS and GLONASS stations operated by the International GNSS Service from DOY 1–10, 2017, and a real vehicle kinematic data. Numerous experimental results showed that the proposed method can correctly fix the cycle slips for more than 99.5% of epochs suffering from re-convergence. On average, this method takes observation information from about 1.5–2.5 epochs to fix cycle slips and realize rapid re-convergence. Consequently, positioning performance is significantly improved. Numéro de notice : A2019-334 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-019-0894-3 Date de publication en ligne : 16/07/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-019-0894-3 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=93423 [article]

The improvement in integer ambiguity resolution with INS aiding for kinematic precise point positioning / Xiaohong Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°7 (July 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°7 (July 2019) . - pp 993 - 1010 Titre : The improvement in integer ambiguity resolution with INS aiding for kinematic precise point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Xiaohong Zhang, Auteur ; Feng Zhu, Auteur ; Yuxi Zhang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 993 - 1010 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Navigation et positionnement [Termes IGN] affaiblissement de la précision [Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière [Termes IGN] couplage GNSS-INS [Termes IGN] délai d'obtention de la première position [Termes IGN] milieu urbain [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] précision du positionnement [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté Résumé : (auteur) Despite the benefits of integer ambiguity resolution (IAR) in precise point positioning (PPP), observation outages and harsh signal environments still impact float ambiguity estimation in kinematic surveying, consequently resulting in ambiguity-fixed failure. The inertial navigation system (INS) is an autonomous and spontaneous positioning one, which could provide continuous and superior positioning accuracy over short time. Thus, the INS attains more accurate position than code solution. Moreover, the tight integration of INS and PPP is capable of continuous operation where there are less than four satellites available. These advantages can improve float ambiguity estimation and assist in re-initializing the interrupted ambiguity and PPP solution. Based on the good quality of float ambiguity, the ambiguity dilution precision (ADOP) and the size of integer ambiguity search space are reduced, and then, the IAR-PPP is improved. In this work, the INS aiding effect on IAR-PPP was revealed by the sufficient theoretical analysis and performance assessment. A ring laser gyroscope-based navigation-grade IMU and a fiber optic gyroscope-based tactical-grade IMU were utilized to conduct experiments in an open-sky environment and urban area. The assessment adopted the following aspects of ADOP, bootstrapping success rate, time to fix and position errors. It is found that IAR-PPP with INS aiding achieves an enhanced performance during GPS outage when INS could deliver a superior accurate position. For the navigation- and tactical-grade IMU, the INS-aided ambiguity re-fixing performance can be classified as three levels: significant improvement for the outage duration less than 10 s, moderate improvement for the outage duration from 10 to 60 s and a little or zero improvement for the outage duration longer than 60 s. From the viewpoint of the INS-predicted position domain, an accuracy better than 0.1 m and 1.0 m is required for the significant and moderate improvement, while one can only achieve a little or zero improvement if the position error is larger than 1.0 m. Besides, we also performed the INS-aided IAR-PPP in real urban environment. For the urban environments, the span of clean data is often shorter than 30 min due to intermittent signal interruptions; thus, ambiguity re-fixing for PPP always fails. INS-aided information could bridge the data gaps and achieve fast ambiguity re-fixing. In summary, INS aiding information is capable of improving IAR-PPP performance significantly over a short GPS outage. Numéro de notice : A2019-356 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1222-3 Date de publication en ligne : 08/12/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1222-3 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=93424 [article]

GPS inter-frequency clock bias estimation for both uncombined and ionospheric-free combined triple-frequency precise point positioning / Lin Pan in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n° 4 (April 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n° 4 (April 2019) . - pp 473 - 487 Titre : GPS inter-frequency clock bias estimation for both uncombined and ionospheric-free combined triple-frequency precise point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Lin Pan, Auteur ; Xiaohong Zhang, Auteur ; Fei Guo, Auteur ; Jingnan Liu, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 473 - 487 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] erreur systématique interfréquence d'horloge [Termes IGN] mesurage de phase [Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] récepteur trifréquence Résumé : (Auteur) The time-varying biases within carrier phase observations will be integrated with satellite clock offset parameters in the precise clock estimation. The inconsistency among signal-dependent phase biases within a satellite results in the inadequacy of the current L1/L2 ionospheric-free (IF) satellite clock products for the GPS precise point positioning (PPP) involving L5 signal. The inter-frequency clock bias (IFCB) estimation approaches for triple-frequency PPP based on either uncombined (UC) observations or IF combined observations within a single arbitrary combination are proposed in this study. The key feature of the IFCB estimation approaches is that we only need to obtain a set of phase-specific IFCB (PIFCB) estimates between the L1/L5 and L1/L2 IF satellite clocks, and then, we can directly convert the obtained L1/L5 IF PIFCBs into L5 UC PIFCBs and L1/L2/L5 IF PIFCBs by multiplying individual constants. The mathematical conversion formula is rigorously derived. The UC and IF triple-frequency PPP models are developed. Datasets from 171 stations with a globally even distribution on seven consecutive days were adopted for analysis. After 24-h observation, the UC and IF triple-frequency PPP without PIFCB corrections can achieve an accuracy of 8, 6 and 13 mm, and 8, 5 and 13 mm in east, north and up coordinate components, respectively, while the corresponding positioning accuracy of the cases with PIFCB consideration can be improved by 38, 33 and 31%, and 50, 40 and 23% to 5, 4 and 9 mm, and 4, 3 and 10 mm in the three components, respectively. The corresponding improvement in convergence time is 17, 1 and 22% in the three components in UC model, respectively. Moreover, the phase observation residuals on L5 frequency in UC triple-frequency PPP and of L1/L2/L5 IF combination in IF triple-frequency PPP are reduced by about 4 mm after applying PIFCB corrections. The performance improvement in UC triple-frequency PPP over UC dual-frequency PPP is 7, 4 and 2% in terms of convergence time in the three components, respectively. The daily solutions of UC triple-frequency PPP have a comparable positioning accuracy to the UC dual-frequency PPP. Numéro de notice : A2019-155 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1176-5 Date de publication en ligne : 17/07/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1176-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92494 [article]

Multi-GNSS phase delay estimation and PPP ambiguity resolution : GPS, BDS, GLONASS, Galileo / Xingxing Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 6 (June 2018)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 92 n° 6 (June 2018) . - pp 579 – 608 Titre : Multi-GNSS phase delay estimation and PPP ambiguity resolution : GPS, BDS, GLONASS, Galileo Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Xingxing Li, Auteur ; Xin Li, Auteur ; Yongqiang Yuan, Auteur ; Keke Zhang, Auteur ; Xiaohong Zhang, Auteur ; Jens Wickert, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Article en page(s) : pp 579 – 608 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière [Termes IGN] délai d'obtention de la première position [Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou [Termes IGN] positionnement par Galileo [Termes IGN] positionnement par GLONASS [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté Résumé : (Auteur) This paper focuses on the precise point positioning (PPP) ambiguity resolution (AR) using the observations acquired from four systems: GPS, BDS, GLONASS, and Galileo (GCRE). A GCRE four-system uncalibrated phase delay (UPD) estimation model and multi-GNSS undifferenced PPP AR method were developed in order to utilize the observations from all systems. For UPD estimation, the GCRE-combined PPP solutions of the globally distributed MGEX and IGS stations are performed to obtain four-system float ambiguities and then UPDs of GCRE satellites can be precisely estimated from these ambiguities. The quality of UPD products in terms of temporal stability and residual distributions is investigated for GPS, BDS, GLONASS, and Galileo satellites, respectively. The BDS satellite-induced code biases were corrected for GEO, IGSO, and MEO satellites before the UPD estimation. The UPD results of global and regional networks were also evaluated for Galileo and BDS, respectively. As a result of the frequency-division multiple-access strategy of GLONASS, the UPD estimation was performed using a network of homogeneous receivers including three commonly used GNSS receivers (TRIMBLE NETR9, JAVAD TRE_G3TH DELTA, and LEICA). Data recorded from 140 MGEX and IGS stations for a 30-day period in January in 2017 were used to validate the proposed GCRE UPD estimation and multi-GNSS dual-frequency PPP AR. Our results show that GCRE four-system PPP AR enables the fastest time to first fix (TTFF) solutions and the highest accuracy for all three coordinate components compared to the single and dual system. An average TTFF of 9.21 min with 7∘ cutoff elevation angle can be achieved for GCRE PPP AR, which is much shorter than that of GPS (18.07 min), GR (12.10 min), GE (15.36 min) and GC (13.21 min). With observations length of 10 min, the positioning accuracy of the GCRE fixed solution is 1.84, 1.11, and 1.53 cm, while the GPS-only result is 2.25, 1.29, and 9.73 cm for the east, north, and vertical components, respectively. When the cutoff elevation angle is increased to 30∘, the GPS-only PPP AR results are very unreliable, while 13.44 min of TTFF is still achievable for GCRE four-system solutions. Numéro de notice : A2018-153 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-017-1081-3 Date de publication en ligne : 31/10/2017 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-017-1081-3 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89766 [article]

Evaluation of NTCM-BC and a proposed modification for single-frequency positioning / Xiaohong Zhang in GPS solutions, vol 21 n° 4 (October 2017)  

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Initial assessment of the COMPASS/BeiDou-3 : new-generation navigation signals / Xiaohong Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 10 (October 2017)  

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New optimal smoothing scheme for improving relative and absolute accuracy of tightly coupled GNSS/SINS integration / Xiaohong Zhang in GPS solutions, vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017)  

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Ambiguity resolved precise point positioning with GPS and BeiDou / Pan Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 1 (January 2017)  

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Modeling and assessment of triple-frequency BDS precise point positioning / Fei Guo in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 11 (November 2016)  

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Generating GPS satellite fractional cycle bias for ambiguity-fixed precise point positioning / Pan Li in GPS solutions, vol 20 n° 4 (October 2016)  

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Benefits of the third frequency signal on cycle slip correction / Xiaohong Zhang in GPS solutions, vol 20 n° 3 (July 2016)  

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Performance analysis of triple-frequency ambiguity resolution with BeiDou observations / Xiaohong Zhang in GPS solutions, vol 20 n° 2 (April 2016)  

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Snow depth estimation based on multipath phase combination of GPS triple-frequency signals / Kegen Yu in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 53 n° 9 (September 2015)  

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Real-time clock jump compensation for precise point positioning / Fei Guo in GPS solutions, vol 18 n° 1 (january 2014)  

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