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Estimation and representation of regional atmospheric corrections for augmenting real-time single-frequency PPP / Peiyuan Zhou in GPS solutions, vol 24 n° 1 (January 2020)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 24 n° 1 (January 2020) Titre : Estimation and representation of regional atmospheric corrections for augmenting real-time single-frequency PPP Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Peiyuan Zhou, Auteur ; Jin Wang, Auteur ; Zhixi Nie, Auteur ; Yang Gao, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Navigation et positionnement [Termes IGN] correction atmosphérique [Termes IGN] correction ionosphérique [Termes IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes IGN] décalage d'horloge [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] Quasi-Zenith Satellite System [Termes IGN] récepteur monofréquence [Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes IGN] satellite GPS [Termes IGN] station GNSS [Termes IGN] temps réel [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons Résumé : (Auteur) Real-time single-frequency precise point positioning (PPP) can be significantly augmented by applying high-quality atmospheric corrections. In previous work, the satellite-and-station-specific slant total electron content (STEC) ionospheric corrections, derived from a regional reference network, are commonly used to augment single-frequency PPP for improving positioning accuracy and faster convergence. However, since the users are required to interpolate STEC ionospheric corrections from nearby reference stations, either duplex communication links should be established or all corrections of the reference network must be retrieved, which makes it inefficient to provide augmentation services to many users. Moreover, the regional tropospheric corrections are generally neglected in augmenting real-time single-frequency PPP. In this study, we present a method to estimate and represent tropospheric and ionospheric corrections from a regional reference network, which can be efficiently disseminated to users through a simplex communication link. First, the uncombined dual-frequency PPP, with external ionospheric constraints derived from international GNSS service predicted global ionospheric map, is used for estimating atmospheric delays with observations from a regional GNSS reference network. Then, the atmospheric delays are properly represented to facilitate real-time transmission by applying a polynomial model for the representation of zenith wet tropospheric corrections, and satellite-specific STEC maps for representing the slant ionospheric corrections. The above results in only simple communication links required to retrieve the regional atmospheric corrections for real-time single-frequency PPP augmentation. Observations from a regional network of 30 GNSS reference stations with inter-station distances of about 70 km during a 1-week-long period, including both quiet and active geomagnetic conditions, are used for generating the regional atmospheric corrections. The results indicate that the average root-mean-square errors of the obtained regional tropospheric and ionospheric corrections are better than 0.01 and 0.05 m when compared with those derived from dual-frequency uncombined PPP, respectively. The positioning accuracy of the single-frequency PPP augmented with regional atmospheric corrections is at 0.141 m horizontally and 0.206 m vertically under a 95% confidence level, a significant improvement compared to single-frequency PPP without atmospheric augmentation. The convergence time is also significantly reduced with 70.4% of the positioning sessions achieving instantaneous 3D convergence. Numéro de notice : A2020-023 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-019-0920-5 Date de publication en ligne : 13/11/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-019-0920-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94466 [article]

Quality assessment of CNES real-time ionospheric products / Zhixi Nie in GPS solutions, vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019) Titre : Quality assessment of CNES real-time ionospheric products Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Zhixi Nie, Auteur ; Hongzhou Yang, Auteur ; Peiyuan Zhou, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] qualité de service [Termes IGN] récepteur monofréquence [Termes IGN] temps réel [Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons Résumé : (Auteur) Real-time single-frequency precise point positioning (RT-SF-PPP) has become a desired positioning approach because it can achieve high positioning accuracy with a low-cost global navigation satellite system (GNSS) chipset or receiver. For single-frequency precise point positioning (SF-PPP) applications, the ionospheric delay is a dominant error source, and thus the quality of applied ionospheric products is critical to the performance of SF-PPP. To meet the demands of the RT-SF-PPP users, the international GNSS service (IGS) is planning to provide open-access real-time ionospheric products. By now, the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) is the only IGS analysis center (AC) to broadcast real-time ionospheric vertical total electron content (VTEC) message through its real-time service (RTS). The quality of the CNES real-time ionospheric products is drawing increasing attention from the GNSS community. We evaluate the quality of CNES real-time VTEC message both in the ionospheric correction domain and positioning domain. First, 374 consecutive days of CNES VTEC products are collected and compared with the IGS final global ionospheric map (GIM) products. Second, slant total electron content (STEC) computed with CNES VTEC message is fully assessed with respect to STEC derived from dual-frequency GNSS measurements. Finally, RT-SF-PPP is conducted for assessing the quality of CNES real-time ionospheric products in the positioning domain. The degree and order of the spherical harmonic expansions broadcasted in the CNES VTEC messages changed from 6 to 12 in the time span of collected data, the effects of higher degree and order parameters are investigated at the same time in the experiments above. Numéro de notice : A2019-054 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0802-2 Date de publication en ligne : 15/11/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0802-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92083 [article]