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Precise onboard time synchronization for LEO satellites / Florian Kunzi in Navigation : journal of the Institute of navigation, vol 69 n° 3 (Fall 2022)  

Public [article]  inNavigation : journal of the Institute of navigation > vol 69 n° 3 (Fall 2022) . - n° 531 Titre : Precise onboard time synchronization for LEO satellites Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Florian Kunzi, Auteur ; Oliver Montenbruck, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 531 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Techniques orbitales [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] horloge [Termes IGN] orbite basse [Termes IGN] orbitographie [Termes IGN] oscillateur [Termes IGN] récepteur DORIS [Termes IGN] récepteur GNSS [Termes IGN] récepteur trifréquence [Termes IGN] synchronisation [Termes IGN] temps réel Résumé : (auteur) Onboard time synchronization is an important requirement for a wide range of low Earth orbit (LEO) missions such as altimetry or communication services, and extends to future position, navigation, and timing (PNT) services in LEO. For GNSS-based time synchronization, continuous knowledge about the satellite’s position is required and, eventually, the quality of the position solution defines the timing precision attainable through GNSS measurements. Previous research has shown that real-time GNSS orbit determination of LEO satellites can achieve decimeter-level accuracy. This paper characterizes the performance of GNSS-based real-time clock synchronization in LEO using the satellite Sentinel-6A as a real-world case study. The satellite’s ultra-stable oscillator (USO) and triple-frequency GPS/Galileo receiver provide measurements for a navigation filter representative of real-time onboard processing. Continuous evaluation of actual flight data over 14 days shows that a 3D orbit root-mean-square (RMS) error of 11 cm and a 0.9-ns clock standard deviation can be achieved. Numéro de notice : A2022-822 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.33012/navi.531 Date de publication en ligne : 12/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.33012/navi.531 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101991 [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]

ERTK: extra-wide-lane RTK of triple-frequency GNSS signals / Bofeng Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 9 (September 2017)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 91 n° 9 (September 2017) . - pp 1031 – 1047 Titre : ERTK: extra-wide-lane RTK of triple-frequency GNSS signals Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Bofeng Li, Auteur ; Zhen Li, Auteur ; Zhiteng Zhang, Auteur ; Yu’an Tan, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 1031 – 1047 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] données BeiDou [Termes IGN] données Galileo [Termes IGN] filtrage du signal [Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel [Termes IGN] précision centimétrique [Termes IGN] propagation ionosphérique [Termes IGN] récepteur trifréquence [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (auteur) Triple-frequency signals have thus far been available for all satellites of BeiDou and Galileo systems and for some GPS satellites. The main benefit of triple-frequency signals is their formation of extra-wide-lane (EWL) combinations whose ambiguities can be instantaneously fixed for several 10–100 km baselines. Yet, this benefit has not been fully exploited and only used as a constraint for narrow-lane (NL) ambiguity resolution (AR) in most previous studies. In this study, we comprehensively investigate the real-time kinematic (RTK) capabilities of EWL observations, also referred to as EWL RTK (ERTK). We begin by mathematically expressing the ease of EWL AR and the difficulty of NL AR, respectively, using a numerical demonstration. We then present the mathematical models for ERTK including the ionosphere-ignored, ionosphere-float and ionosphere-smoothed types. The experiments are conducted using a four-station network of real triple-frequency BeiDou data with baseline lengths from 33 to 75 km. The results show that the ionosphere-ignored ERTK achieves real-time solutions with a horizontal accuracy of about 10 cm. Although the ionosphere-float ERTK solutions are very noisy, they can be quickly improved at the centimetre level by further applying the ionosphere-smoothed model. Note that such accurate results are very promising and already satisfy many applications without complicated NL AR. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study to make full use of EWL observations of triple-frequency signals on RTK. Numéro de notice : A2017-464 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-017-1006-1 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-017-1006-1 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=86410 [article]

Impact of GPS differential code bias in dual- and triple-frequency positioning and satellite clock estimation / Haojun Li in GPS solutions, vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017) . - pp 897 – 903 Titre : Impact of GPS differential code bias in dual- and triple-frequency positioning and satellite clock estimation Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Haojun Li, Auteur ; Bofeng Li, Auteur ; Lizhi Lou, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 897 – 903 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] code GPS [Termes IGN] erreur corrélée au temps [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] GPS en mode différentiel [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] récepteur bifréquence [Termes IGN] récepteur trifréquence [Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique Résumé : (auteur) The features and differences of various GPS differential code bias (DCB)s are discussed. The application of these biases in dual- and triple-frequency satellite clock estimation is introduced based on this discussion. A method for estimating the satellite clock error from triple-frequency uncombined observations is presented to meet the need of the triple-frequency uncombined precise point positioning (PPP). In order to evaluate the estimated satellite clock error, the performance of these biases in dual- and triple-frequency positioning is studied. Analysis of the inter-frequency clock bias (IFCB), which is a result of constant and time-varying frequency-dependent hardware delays, in ionospheric-free code-based (P1/P5) single point positioning indicates that its influence on the up direction is more pronounced than on the north and east directions. When the IFCB is corrected, the mean improvements are about 29, 35 and 52% for north, east and up directions, respectively. Considering the contribution of code observations to PPP convergence time, the performance of DCB(P1–P2), DCB(P1–P5) and IFCB in GPS triple-frequency PPP convergence is investigated. The results indicate that the DCB correction can accelerate PPP convergence by means of improving the accuracy of the code observation. The performance of these biases in positioning further verifies the correctness of the estimated dual- and triple-frequency satellite clock error. Numéro de notice : A2017-441 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-016-0578-1 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-016-0578-1 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=86358 [article]

Real-time cycle-slip detection and repair for BeiDou triple-frequency undifferenced observations / Y.-F. Yao in Survey review, vol 48 n° 350 (September 2016)  

Public [article]  inSurvey review > vol 48 n° 350 (September 2016) . - pp 367 - 375 Titre : Real-time cycle-slip detection and repair for BeiDou triple-frequency undifferenced observations Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Y.-F. Yao, Auteur ; J.-X. Gao, Auteur ; J. Wang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 367 - 375 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] détection d'anomalie [Termes IGN] glissement de cycle [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou [Termes IGN] récepteur trifréquence [Termes IGN] signal BeiDou [Termes IGN] temps réel Résumé : (auteur) A new method of real-time cycle-slip detection and repair for BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS) triple-frequency undifferenced observations is proposed. The method, which is based on code–phase and geometry-free phase combinations, composes linearly independent combination observations to uniquely determine the cycle-slip of original frequency phase observations in two independent steps. First, two extra-wide lane (EWL) code–phase combinations are utilised to determine the EWL combination cycle-slips. The sum of the carrier phase combination coefficients is zero. Second, the geometry-free phase combination with a non-zero sum of combination coefficients composes linearly independent combination observations with two code–phase combinations. Ionospheric delay variance systematic deviation is corrected with several previous carrier-phase observations without cycle-slip, which seriously affect the accuracy of the geometry-free phase combination observations. The BDS triple-frequency carrier-phase and code observations of different satellite types at 30 s sampling interval, which involve increased active ionospheric conditions in 1 day, are utilised to test the method. Results show that the proposed method can efficiently detect and accurately repair any cycle-slip combinations in real-time for different satellite types under active ionospheric conditions. No erroneous and leakage judgments are observed in the test. Numéro de notice : A2016-642 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1080/00396265.2015.1133518 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/00396265.2015.1133518 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=81847 [article]

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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GNSS multipath detection using three-frequency signal-to-noise measurements / Philip R.R. Strode in GPS solutions, vol 20 n° 3 (July 2016)  

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Stochastic modeling of triple-frequency BeiDou signals: estimation, assessment and impact analysis / Bofeng Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 7 (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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Advanced modeling and algorithms for high-precision GNSS analysis / Kan Wang (2016)  

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Les évolutions du PPP : l'apport d'une troisième fréquence pour réduire les temps de convergence / Denis Laurichesse in XYZ, n° 144 (septembre - novembre 2015) 

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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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Carrier-phase ambiguity resolution: Handling the biases for improved triple-frequency PPP convergence / Denis Laurichesse in GPS world, vol 26 n° 4 (April 2015)  

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Triple-frequency GPS precise point positioning with rapid ambiguity resolution / Jianghui Geng in Journal of geodesy, vol 87 n° 5 (May 2013)  

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Combinaison linéaire et l'intérêt de la troisième fréquence pour le positionnement en double différence par GPS / L. Tabti in XYZ, n° 124 (septembre - novembre 2010) 

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