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Impact of the third frequency GNSS pseudorange and carrier phase observations on rapid PPP convergences / Jiang Guo in GPS solutions, vol 25 n° 2 (April 2021)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 25 n° 2 (April 2021) . - 12 p. Titre : Impact of the third frequency GNSS pseudorange and carrier phase observations on rapid PPP convergences Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jiang Guo, Auteur ; Jianghui Geng, Auteur ; Chen Wang, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : 12 p. Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] bruit (théorie du signal) [Termes IGN] fréquence multiple [Termes IGN] ligne de base [Termes IGN] mesurage de pseudo-distance [Termes IGN] modèle fonctionnel [Termes IGN] modèle stochastique [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Termes IGN] signal BeiDou [Termes IGN] signal Galileo [Termes IGN] signal GNSS [Termes IGN] temps de convergence Résumé : (Auteur) New GNSS signals have significantly augmented positioning service and promoted algorithmic innovations such as rapid PPP convergence. With the emerging of multifrequency signals, it becomes essential to thoroughly explore the contribution of third frequency pseudorange and carrier phase toward PPP. In this study, we research the role of the third frequency observations on accelerating PPP convergence, commencing from both stochastic and functional models. We first constructed the stochastic model depending on the observation noise and then introduced two uncombined functional models with respect to different inter-frequency bias (IFB) estimation strategies. The double-differenced residuals based on a zero baseline were used to evaluate the signal noises, which were 0.09, 0.07, 0.11, 0.01 and 0.09 m for Galileo E1/E5a/E5b/E5/E6 pseudorange and 0.24, 0.31 and 0.05 m for BeiDou B1/B2/B3. Besides, carrier phase observations E5a/E5/E6/B1I/B3I shared a comparable signal noise of 0.002 m, while the signal noises of E1/E5b/B2I were 0.003 m. Both BeiDou-2/Galileo and Galileo-only float PPP were implemented based on the dataset collected from 25 stations, spanning 30 days. Triple-frequency Galileo PPP achieved convergence successfully in 19.9 min if observations were weighted according to observation precision, showing a comparable performance of dual-frequency PPP. Meanwhile, the convergence time of triple-frequency float PPP was further shortened to 19.2 min when satellite pair IFBs were eliminated by estimating a second satellite clock. While the improvement of triple-frequency float PPP was marginal, triple-frequency PPP-AR using signals E1/E5a/E6 shortened the initialization time of the dual-frequency counterpart by 38%. Moreover, the performance of triple-frequency PPP-AR kept almost unchanged after we excluded the third frequency pseudorange observations. We thus suggest that the contribution of the third frequency to PPP mainly rests on ambiguity resolution, favored by the additional carrier phase observations. Numéro de notice : A2021-090 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-01079-7 date de publication en ligne : 10/01/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-01079-7 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96875 [article]

On the interoperability of IGS products for precise point positioning with ambiguity resolution / Simon Banville in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n°1 (January 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 94 n°1 (January 2020) Titre : On the interoperability of IGS products for precise point positioning with ambiguity resolution Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Simon Banville, Auteur ; Jianghui Geng, Auteur ; Sylvain Loyer, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] horloge du satellite [Termes IGN] international GPS service for geodynamics [Termes IGN] interopérabilité [Termes IGN] longitude [Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] positionnement statique [Termes IGN] précision millimétrique [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté Résumé : (auteur) Techniques enabling precise point positioning with ambiguity resolution (PPP-AR) were developed over a decade ago. Several analysis centers of the International GNSS Service (IGS) have implemented such strategies into their software packages and are generating (experimental) PPP-AR products including satellite clock and bias corrections. While the IGS combines individual orbit and clock products as standard to provide a more reliable solution, interoperability of these new PPP-AR products must be confirmed before they can be combined. As a first step, all products are transformed into a common observable-specific representation of biases. It is then confirmed that consistency is only ensured by considering both clock and bias products simultaneously. As a consequence, the satellite clock combination process currently used by the IGS must be revisited to consider not only clocks but also biases. A combination of PPP-AR products from six analysis centers over a one-week period is successfully achieved, showing that alignment of phase clocks can be achieved with millimeter precision thanks to the integer properties of the clocks. In the positioning domain, PPP-AR solutions for all products show improved longitude estimates of daily static positions by nearly 60% over float solutions. The combined products generally provide equivalent or better results than individual analysis center contributions, for both static and kinematic solutions. Numéro de notice : A2020-150 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-019-01335-w date de publication en ligne : 03/01/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-019-01335-w Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94782 [article]

GPS satellite clock determination in case of inter-frequency clock biases for triple-frequency precise point positioning / Jiang Guo in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 10 (October 2018)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 92 n° 10 (October 2018) . - pp 1133 - 1142 Titre : GPS satellite clock determination in case of inter-frequency clock biases for triple-frequency precise point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jiang Guo, Auteur ; Jianghui Geng, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Article en page(s) : pp 1133 - 1142 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] horloge atomique [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] satellite GPS Résumé : (Auteur) Significant time-varying inter-frequency clock biases (IFCBs) within GPS observations prevent the application of the legacy L1/L2 ionosphere-free clock products on L5 signals. Conventional approaches overcoming this problem are to estimate L1/L5 ionosphere-free clocks in addition to their L1/L2 counterparts or to compute IFCBs between the L1/L2 and L1/L5 clocks which are later modeled through a harmonic analysis. In contrast, we start from the undifferenced uncombined GNSS model and propose an alternative approach where a second satellite clock parameter dedicated to the L5 signals is estimated along with the legacy L1/L2 clock. In this manner, we do not need to rely on the correlated L1/L2 and L1/L5 ionosphere-free observables which complicates triple-frequency GPS stochastic models, or account for the unfavorable time-varying hardware biases in undifferenced GPS functional models since they can be absorbed by the L5 clocks. An extra advantage over the ionosphere-free model is that external ionosphere constraints can potentially be introduced to improve PPP. With 27 days of triple-frequency GPS data from globally distributed stations, we find that the RMS of the positioning differences between our GPS model and all conventional models is below 1 mm for all east, north and up components, demonstrating the effectiveness of our model in addressing triple-frequency observations and time-varying IFCBs. Moreover, we can combine the L1/L2 and L5 clocks derived from our model to calculate precisely the L1/L5 clocks which in practice only depart from their legacy counterparts by less than 0.006 ns in RMS. Our triple-frequency GPS model proves convenient and efficient in combating time-varying IFCBs and can be generalized to more than three frequency signals for satellite clock determination. Numéro de notice : A2018-460 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-017-1106-y date de publication en ligne : 28/12/2017 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-017-1106-y Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=91057 [article]

Rapid initialization of real-time PPP by resolving undifferenced GPS and GLONASS ambiguities simultaneously / Jianghui Geng in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 4 (April 2017)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 91 n° 4 (April 2017) . - pp 361 - 374 Titre : Rapid initialization of real-time PPP by resolving undifferenced GPS and GLONASS ambiguities simultaneously Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jianghui Geng, Auteur ; Chuang Shi, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 361 - 374 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Allemagne [Termes IGN] positionnement par GLONASS [Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] récepteur bifréquence [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Termes IGN] temps réel Résumé : (auteur) Rapid initialization of real-time precise point positioning (PPP) has constantly been a difficult problem. Recent efforts through multi-GNSS and multi-frequency data, though beneficial indeed, have not proved sufficiently effective in reducing the initialization periods to far less than 10 min. Though this goal can be easily reached by introducing ionosphere corrections as accurate as a few centimeters, a dense reference network is required which is impractical for wide-area applications. Leveraging the latest development of GLONASS PPP ambiguity resolution (PPP-AR) technique, we propose a composite strategy, where simultaneous GPS and GLONASS dual-frequency PPP-AR is carried out, and herein, the reliability of partial AR improves dramatically. We used 14 days of data from a German network and divided them into hourly data to test this strategy. We found that the initialization periods were shortened drastically from over 25 min when only GPS data were processed to about 6 min when GPS and GLONASS PPP-AR were accomplished simultaneously. More encouragingly, over 50% of real-time PPP solutions could be initialized successfully within 5 min through our strategy, in contrast to only 4% when only GPS data were used. We expect that our strategy can provide a promising route to overcoming the difficulty of achieving PPP initializations within a few minutes. Numéro de notice : A2017-105 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0969-7 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=84495 [article]

GLONASS fractional-cycle bias estimation across inhomogeneous receivers for PPP ambiguity resolution / Jianghui Geng in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 4 (April 2016)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 90 n° 4 (April 2016) . - pp 379 - 396 Titre : GLONASS fractional-cycle bias estimation across inhomogeneous receivers for PPP ambiguity resolution Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jianghui Geng, Auteur ; Yehuda Bock, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 379 - 396 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] positionnement par GLONASS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté Résumé : (auteur) The key issue to enable precise point positioning with ambiguity resolution (PPP-AR) is to estimate fractional-cycle biases (FCBs), which mainly relate to receiver and satellite hardware biases, over a network of reference stations. While this has been well achieved for GPS, FCB estimation for GLONASS is difficult because (1) satellites do not share the same frequencies as a result of Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) signals; (2) and even worse, pseudorange hardware biases of receivers vary in an irregular manner with manufacturers, antennas, domes, firmware, etc., which especially complicates GLONASS PPP-AR over inhomogeneous receivers. We propose a general approach where external ionosphere products are introduced into GLONASS PPP to estimate precise FCBs that are less impaired by pseudorange hardware biases of diverse receivers to enable PPP-AR. One month of GLONASS data at about 550 European stations were processed. From an exemplary network of 51 inhomogeneous receivers, including four receiver types with various antennas and spanning about 800 km in both longitudinal and latitudinal directions, we found that 92.4 % of all fractional parts of GLONASS wide-lane ambiguities agree well within ±0.15 cycles with a standard deviation of 0.09 cycles if global ionosphere maps (GIMs) are introduced, compared to only 51.7 % within ±0.15 cycles and a larger standard deviation of 0.22 cycles otherwise. Hourly static GLONASS PPP-AR at 40 test stations can reach position estimates of about 1 and 2 cm in RMS from ground truth for the horizontal and vertical components, respectively, which is comparable to hourly GPS PPP-AR. Integrated GLONASS and GPS PPP-AR can further achieve an RMS of about 0.5 cm in horizontal and 1–2 cm in vertical components. We stress that the performance of GLONASS PPP-AR across inhomogeneous receivers depends on the accuracy of ionosphere products. GIMs have a modest accuracy of only 2–8 TECU (Total Electron Content Unit) in vertical which confines PPP-AR to an approximately 800×800 km area in Europe. We expect that a regional ionosphere map with a better than 1 TECU accuracy is likely to improve the GLONASS PPP-AR efficiency. Numéro de notice : A2016-251 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-015-0879-0 date de publication en ligne : 26/12/2015 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-015-0879-0 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=80759 [article]

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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