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Outliers and uncertainties in GNSS ZTD estimates from double-difference processing and precise point positioning / Katarzyna Stępniak in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022) . - n° 74 Titre : Outliers and uncertainties in GNSS ZTD estimates from double-difference processing and precise point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Katarzyna Stępniak, Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Pawel Wielgosz, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : n° 74 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] double différence [Termes IGN] ERA5 [Termes IGN] incertitude des données [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] valeur aberrante [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (auteur) Double-difference (DD) analysis and precise point positioning (PPP) are two widely used processing approaches to analyze ground-based GNSS measurements. We investigate the quality of the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) estimates produced from both processing approaches for a regional network over 1 year and show that DD solutions contain more numerous and larger ZTD outliers. The accuracy of both DD and PPP solutions strongly depends on the data processing procedure and models. We analyze the impact of mapping functions, satellite orbit and clock products and ambiguity resolution (fixed vs. float) on ZTD estimates. The results are assessed from station position repeatability and ZTD differences with respect to the ERA5 reanalysis. As expected, mapping functions have the strongest impact, with VMF1 being more accurate than GMF. Surprisingly, the impact of the ambiguity resolution and satellite products is rather weak in the PPP solution. We speculate that this results from the fact that final satellite products have reached a high level of accuracy and that other error sources now dominate static PPP solutions. A time and frequency analysis reveal unprecedented spurious sub-daily signals in the ZTD time series, which occur at the frequency of the GPS satellite repeat period and its harmonics. This suggests that sub-daily GPS ZTD estimates contain a significant part of the residual modeling errors due to satellite orbits, tidal models, mapping functions and multipath, which still need to be improved. Numéro de notice : A2022-359 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01261-z Date de publication en ligne : 29/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01261-z Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100578 [article]

Antenna phase center correction differences from robot and chamber calibrations: the case study LEIAR25 / Grzegorz Krzan in GPS solutions, vol 24 n° 2 (April 2020)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 24 n° 2 (April 2020) Titre : Antenna phase center correction differences from robot and chamber calibrations: the case study LEIAR25 Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Grzegorz Krzan, Auteur ; Karol Dawidowicz, Auteur ; Pawel Wielgosz, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] antenne GLONASS [Termes IGN] antenne GNSS [Termes IGN] antenne GPS [Termes IGN] centre de phase [Termes IGN] chambre anéchoïque [Termes IGN] correction du signal [Termes IGN] étalonnage d'instrument [Termes IGN] instrumentation Leica [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] robot [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] signal GNSS Résumé : (auteur) In recent years, the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have been intensively modernized, resulting in the introduction of new carrier frequencies for GPS and GLONASS and the development of new satellite systems such as Galileo and BeiDou (BDS). For this reason, the absolute field antenna calibrations performed so far for the two legacy carrier frequencies, the GPS and GLONASS, seem to be insufficient. Hence, all antennas will require a re-calibration of their phase center variations for the new signals to ensure the highest measurement accuracy. Currently, two absolute calibration methods are used to calibrate GNSS antennas: field calibration using a robot and calibration in an anechoic chamber. Unfortunately, differences in these methodologies also result in a disparity in the obtained antenna phase center corrections (PCC). Therefore, we analyze the differences between individual PCC obtained with these two methods, specifically for the Leica AR-25 antenna model (LEIAR25). In addition, the influence of PCC differences on the GNSS-derived position time series for 19 EUREF Permanent GNSS Network (EPN) stations was also assessed. The results show that the calibration method has a noticeable impact on PCC models. PCC differences determined for the ionosphere-free combination may reach up over 20 mm and can be transferred to the position domain. Further tests concerning the positioning accuracy showed that for horizontal coordinates differences between solutions were mostly below 1 mm, exceeding 2 mm only at two stations for the GLONASS solution. However, the height component differences exceeded 5 mm for four, six and six stations out of 19 for the GPS, GLONASS and Galileo solutions, respectively. These differences are strongly dependent on large L2 calibration differences. Numéro de notice : A2020-081 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-0957-5 Date de publication en ligne : 11/02/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-0957-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94650 [article]

Carrier phase bias estimation of geometry-free linear combination of GNSS signals for ionospheric TEC modeling / Anna Krypiak-Gregorczyk in GPS solutions, vol 22 n° 2 (April 2018)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 22 n° 2 (April 2018) . - pp 22 - 45 Titre : Carrier phase bias estimation of geometry-free linear combination of GNSS signals for ionospheric TEC modeling Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Anna Krypiak-Gregorczyk, Auteur ; Pawel Wielgosz, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Article en page(s) : pp 22 - 45 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] combinaison linéaire [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique [Termes IGN] signal GNSS [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (Auteur) The ionosphere can be modeled and studied using multi-frequency GNSS signals and their geometry-free linear combination. Therefore, a number of GNSS-derived ionospheric models have been developed and applied in a broad range of applications. However, due to the complexity of estimating the carrier phase ambiguities, most of these models are based on low-accuracy carrier phase smoothed pseudorange data. This, in turn, critically limits their accuracy and applicability. Therefore, we present a new methodology of estimating the phase bias of the scaled L1 and L2 carrier phase difference which is a function of the ambiguities, the ionospheric delay, and hardware delays. This methodology is suitable for ionospheric modeling at regional and continental scales. In addition, we present its evaluation under varying ionospheric conditions. The test results show that the carrier phase bias of geometry-free linear combination can be estimated with a very high accuracy, which consequently allows for calculating ionospheric TEC with the uncertainty lower than 1.0 TECU. This high accuracy makes the resulting ionosphere model suitable for improving GNSS positioning for high-precision applications in geosciences. Numéro de notice : A2018-160 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0711-4 Date de publication en ligne : 16/02/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0711-4 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89783 [article]

Reduction of ZTD outliers through improved GNSS data processing and screening strategies [Interactive discussion] / Katarzyna Stępniak in Atmospheric measurement techniques, vol 11 n° 3 (March 2018)  

Public [article]  inAtmospheric measurement techniques > vol 11 n° 3 (March 2018) . - pp 1347 - 1361 Titre : Reduction of ZTD outliers through improved GNSS data processing and screening strategies [Interactive discussion] Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Katarzyna Stępniak, Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Pawel Wielgosz, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Projets : 3-projet - voir note / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : pp 1347 - 1361 Note générale : Bibliographie This work has been supported by Polish National Science Centre grant no. UMO-2015/19/B/ST10/02758. The study was partially carried out during Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) in the framework of ES1206 COST Action. Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Systèmes de référence et réseaux [Termes IGN] Bernese [Termes IGN] coordonnées GPS [Termes IGN] double différence [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] Pologne [Termes IGN] réseau géodésique local [Termes IGN] réseau géodésique permanent [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] valeur aberrante Résumé : (Auteur) Though Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data processing has been significantly improved over the years, it is still commonly observed that zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) estimates contain many outliers which are detrimental to meteorological and climatological applications. In this paper, we show that ZTD outliers in double-difference processing are mostly caused by sub-daily data gaps at reference stations, which cause disconnections of clusters of stations from the reference network and common mode biases due to the strong correlation between stations in short baselines. They can reach a few centimetres in ZTD and usually coincide with a jump in formal errors. The magnitude and sign of these biases are impossible to predict because they depend on different errors in the observations and on the geometry of the baselines. We elaborate and test a new baseline strategy which solves this problem and significantly reduces the number of outliers compared to the standard strategy commonly used for positioning (e.g. determination of national reference frame) in which the pre-defined network is composed of a skeleton of reference stations to which secondary stations are connected in a star-like structure. The new strategy is also shown to perform better than the widely used strategy maximizing the number of observations available in many GNSS programs. The reason is that observations are maximized before processing, whereas the final number of used observations can be dramatically lower because of data rejection (screening) during the processing. The study relies on the analysis of 1 year of GPS (Global Positioning System) data from a regional network of 136 GNSS stations processed using Bernese GNSS Software v.5.2. A post-processing screening procedure is also proposed to detect and remove a few outliers which may still remain due to short data gaps. It is based on a combination of range checks and outlier checks of ZTD and formal errors. The accuracy of the final screened GPS ZTD estimates is assessed by comparison to ERA-Interim reanalysis. Numéro de notice : A2018-065 Affiliation des auteurs : LASTIG LAREG+Ext (2012-mi2018) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/amt-11-1347-2018 Date de publication en ligne : 08/03/2018 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1347-2018 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89407 [article]

Accounting for Galileo–GPS inter-system biases in precise satellite positioning / Jacek Paziewski in Journal of geodesy, vol 89 n° 1 (January 2015)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 89 n° 1 (January 2015) . - pp 81 - 93 Titre : Accounting for Galileo–GPS inter-system biases in precise satellite positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jacek Paziewski, Auteur ; Pawel Wielgosz, Auteur Année de publication : 2015 Article en page(s) : pp 81 - 93 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] acquisition de données [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] double différence [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] fusion de données [Termes IGN] positionnement différentiel [Termes IGN] signal Galileo [Termes IGN] signal GPS [Termes IGN] stabilité dans le temps Résumé : (auteur) Availability of two overlapping frequencies L1/E1 and L5/E5a of the signals transmitted by GPS and Galileo systems offers the possibility of tightly combining observations from both systems in a single observational model. A tightly combined observational model assumes a single reference satellite for all observations from both Galileo and GPS systems. However, when inter-system double-differenced observations are created, receiver inter-system bias is introduced. This study presents the results and the methodology for estimation and accounting for phase and code GPS-Galileo inter-system bias in precise relative positioning. The research investigates the size and temporal stability of the estimated bias for different receiver pairs as well as examines the influence of accounting for the inter-system bias on the user position solution. The obtained numerical results are based on four experiments carried out at different locations and time periods using both real and simulated GNSS data. Numéro de notice : A2015-329 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-014-0763-3 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-014-0763-3 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=76654 [article]

Analysis of long-range network RTK during a severe ionospheric storm / Pawel Wielgosz in Journal of geodesy, vol 79 n° 9 (December 2005)  

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