Centre de documentation
scientifique

On the TEC bias of altimeter satellites / Francisco Azpilicueta in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 10 (October 2021)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 95 n° 10 (October 2021) . - n° 114 Titre : On the TEC bias of altimeter satellites Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Francisco Azpilicueta, Auteur ; Bruno Nava, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 114 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] altimétrie satellitaire par radar [Termes IGN] données DORIS [Termes IGN] données Jason [Termes IGN] données Topex-Poseidon [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons [Termes IGN] traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (auteur) TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3 altimeter missions have provided 27 + years of uninterrupted Total Electron Content (TEC) measurements since 1992, with unprecedented precision. Nevertheless, the issue of a possible systematic bias in the data was identified immediately after first TOPEX measurements were compared with measurements from other sources. The bias issue has remained open for decades, and it has increased in complexity because each new mission had its different bias. The purpose of this paper is to assess the problem of TEC bias of altimeters. Two approaches have been followed. The first one relied on the TEC data series of the four altimeters to determine inter-mission systematic biases using the last available data versions for each mission. The second approach consisted of inspecting the missions’ official reports to trace changes of the inter-mission and inter-version biases, including biases relative to DORIS ionospheric measurements. Both approaches have converged and resulted in the determination of a reference frame where missions, instruments and ionospheric reference levels could be compared. This reference frame was also used to analyze results published in representative papers during the last decades, including ionospheric data from the ENVISAT mission. This reference frame could help to assess TEC levels of the announced new data version of Jason-2, Jason-3 and the imminent Jason-CS/Sentinel missions. The main conclusion of this work is that Jason-1, ‘E’ data version, defines a TEC reference level which is compatible with most of the results found in the literature. Numéro de notice : A2021-747 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-021-01564-y Date de publication en ligne : 04/10/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01564-y Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98706 [article]

ESA UGI (Unified-GNSS-Ionosphere): An open-source software to compute precise ionosphere estimates / Raül Orús-Pérez in Advances in space research, vol 67 n° 1 (January 2021)  

Public [article]  inAdvances in space research > vol 67 n° 1 (January 2021) . - pp 56 - 65 Titre : ESA UGI (Unified-GNSS-Ionosphere): An open-source software to compute precise ionosphere estimates Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Raül Orús-Pérez, Auteur ; Bruno Nava, Auteur ; Juan M Parro-Jimenez, Auteur ; Anton Kashcheyev, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : pp 56 - 65 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] code source libre [Termes IGN] logiciel libre [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] propagation ionosphérique Résumé : (auteur) Ionospheric estimation is becoming more and more important for the new multifrequency positioning algorithms, since they can help to improve greatly the convergence time for acquiring a good positioning error. In this paper, an open source tool to estimate precise ionospheric estimates is presented, namely ESA UGI (Unified-GNSS-Ionosphere). The presentation is done jointly with a methodology to test ionospheric model using a modified NeQuick to generate synthetic data. The results with different option of the ESA UGI shows that it has a good performance below 1 TECU (Total Electron Content Units) in vTEC (vertical Total Electron Content) RMS (Root Mean Squared) for European networks, around 2 TECU in a well-covered African region and between 1 and 6 TECU globally with this synthetic data. It shows as well the capability of changing between different ionosphere models (voxel, multilayer and spherical harmonics) and configuration options. Finally, a test with uncombined PPP actual data is presented showing that instantaneous convergence below 30 cm in 3D RMS position error are achievable in a well sounded area in Europe. Numéro de notice : A2021-485 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.asr.2020.09.011 Date de publication en ligne : 19/09/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.09.011 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97445 [article]

A technique for routinely updating the ITU-R database using radio occultation electron density profiles / Claudio Brunini in Journal of geodesy, vol 87 n° 9 (September 2013)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 87 n° 9 (September 2013) . - pp 813 - 823 Titre : A technique for routinely updating the ITU-R database using radio occultation electron density profiles Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Claudio Brunini, Auteur ; Francisco Azpilicueta, Auteur ; Bruno Nava, Auteur Année de publication : 2013 Article en page(s) : pp 813 - 823 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement du signal [Termes IGN] Formosat / COSMIC [Termes IGN] International Reference Ionosphere [Termes IGN] ionosphère [Termes IGN] mise à jour de base de données [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] orbite basse [Termes IGN] radiooccultation [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons [Termes IGN] trajectographie par GPS Résumé : (Auteur) Well credited and widely used ionospheric models, such as the International Reference Ionosphere or NeQuick, describe the variation of the electron density with height by means of a piecewise profile tied to the F2-peak parameters: the electron density, NmF2 , and the height, hmF2. Accurate values of these parameters are crucial for retrieving reliable electron density estimations from those models. When direct measurements of these parameters are not available, the models compute the parameters using the so-called ITU-R database, which was established in the early 1960s. This paper presents a technique aimed at routinely updating the ITU-R database using radio occultation electron density profiles derived from GPS measurements gathered from low Earth orbit satellites. Before being used, these radio occultation profiles are validated by fitting to them an electron density model. A re-weighted Least Squares algorithm is used for down-weighting unreliable measurements (occasionally, entire profiles) and to retrieve NmF2 and hmF2 values—together with their error estimates—from the profiles. These values are used to monthly update the database, which consists of two sets of ITU-R-like coefficients that could easily be implemented in the IRI or NeQuick models. The technique was tested with radio occultation electron density profiles that are delivered to the community by the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission team. Tests were performed for solstices and equinoxes seasons in high and low-solar activity conditions. The global mean error of the resulting maps—estimated by the Least Squares technique—is between 0.5*1010 and 3.6*1010 elec/m-3 for the F2-peak electron density (which is equivalent to 7 % of the value of the estimated parameter) and from 2.0 to 5.6 km for the height ( ~ 2 %). Numéro de notice : A2013-563 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-013-0648-x Date de publication en ligne : 13/06/2013 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-013-0648-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=32699 [article]

Exemplaires(1)

Code-barres	Cote	Support	Localisation	Section	Disponibilité
266-2013091	SL	Revue	Centre de documentation	Revues en salle	Disponible