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An advanced residual error model for tropospheric delay estimation / Szabolcs Rózsa in GPS solutions, Vol 24 n° 4 (October 2020)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > Vol 24 n° 4 (October 2020) . - 15 p. Titre : An advanced residual error model for tropospheric delay estimation Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Szabolcs Rózsa, Auteur ; Bence Ambrus, Auteur ; Ildiko Juni, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 15 p. Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] erreur de positionnement [Termes IGN] modèle d'erreur [Termes IGN] modèle météorologique [Termes IGN] perturbation ionosphérique [Termes IGN] résidu [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes IGN] série temporelle Résumé : (auteur) Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are widely used for safety-of-life positioning applications. Such applications require high integrity, availability, and continuity of the positioning service. Integrity is assessed by the definition of a protection level, which is an estimation of the maximum positioning error at extremely low probability levels. The emergence of multi-frequency civilian signals and the availability of satellite-based augmentation systems improve the modeling of ionospheric disturbances considerably. As a result, in many applications the tropospheric delay tends to become one of the limiting factors of positioning—especially at low elevation angles. The currently adopted integrity concepts employ a global constant to model the variance of the residual tropospheric delay error. We introduce a new approach to derive residual tropospheric delay error models using the extreme value analysis technique. Seventeen years of global numerical weather model fields are analyzed, and new residual error models are derived for some recently developed tropospheric delay models. Our approach provides models that consider both the geographical location and the seasonal variation of meteorological parameters. Our models are validated with a 17-year-long time series of zenith tropospheric delay estimates as provided by the International GNSS Service. The results show that the developed models are still conservative, while the maximal residual error of the tropospheric delay is still improved by 39–55%. This improvement yields higher service availability and continuity in safety-of-life applications of GNSS. Numéro de notice : A2020-522 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-01017-7 Date de publication en ligne : 07/08/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-01017-7 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95695 [article]