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BDS and GPS side-lobe observation quality analysis and orbit determination with a GEO satellite onboard receiver / Wenwen Li in GPS solutions, vol 27 n° 1 (January 2023)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 27 n° 1 (January 2023) . - n° 18 Titre : BDS and GPS side-lobe observation quality analysis and orbit determination with a GEO satellite onboard receiver Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Wenwen Li, Auteur ; Kecai Jiang, Auteur ; Min Li, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : n° 18 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Techniques orbitales [Termes IGN] code GNSS [Termes IGN] orbite géostationnaire [Termes IGN] orbite précise [Termes IGN] orbitographie [Termes IGN] orbitographie par GNSS [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou [Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS Résumé : (auteur) Multi-GNSS combination can alleviate problems associated with GNSS-based geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellite navigation and orbit determination (OD), such as GNSS availability and observation geometry deterioration. However, only GPS has been widely applied and investigated in GEO missions, whereas GEO OD with BDS requires further exploration. The Chinese GEO satellite TJS-5, equipped with a GPS and BDS-compatible receiver, is the first GEO mission that tracks both BDS 2nd and 3rd generation satellites since BDS global deployment. With the TJS-5 real onboard data, we evaluate BDS side-lobe signal performance and the BDS contribution to GEO OD. Due to transmit antenna gain deficiencies in the side lobes, BDS shows a worse tracking performance than GPS with an average satellite number of 4.3 versus 7.8. Both GPS and BDS reveal inconsistency between carrier-phase and code observations, which reaches several meters and significantly degrades post-dynamic OD calculation. We estimate the consistency as a random walk process in the carrier-phase observation model to reduce its impact. With inconsistency estimated, the post-fit carrier-phase residuals decrease from 0.21 to 0.09 m for both GPS and BDS. The OD precision is significantly improved, from 1.95 to 1.42 m with only GPS and from 3.14 to 2.71 m with only BDS; the GPS and BDS combined OD exhibits the largest improvement from 1.74 to 0.82 m, demonstrating that adding BDS improves the OD precision by 43.3%. The above results indicate that the proposed carrier-phase inconsistency estimation approach is effective for both GPS and BDS and can achieve an orbit precision within 1.0 m using multi-GNSS measurements. Numéro de notice : A2023-026 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01358-5 Date de publication en ligne : 06/11/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01358-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102261 [article]

Estimation of ionospheric total electron content using GNSS observations derived from a smartphone / Li Xu in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 4 (October 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 4 (October 2022) . - n° 138 Titre : Estimation of ionospheric total electron content using GNSS observations derived from a smartphone Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Li Xu, Auteur ; Jiuping Zha, Auteur ; Min Li, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 138 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] pondération [Termes IGN] série de Fourier [Termes IGN] téléphone intelligent [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons [Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements to determine ionospheric total electron content (TEC) are mainly derived from expensive geodetic-grade receivers, which are not conducive to high-density placement. In this work, we present an analysis of the performance of ionospheric TEC determined by GNSS dual-frequency measurements derived from the smartphone, taking the Xiaomi 8 (XMI8) as an example. First, the ionospheric observable is retrieved from the code and carrier phase data using the carrier-to-code leveling technique and a new carrier-to-noise weighting strategy instead of an elevation weighting strategy, considering the characteristic of the GNSS measurements from smartphones. Then, the absolute ionospheric slant TEC (STEC) values are isolated from the ionospheric observables by modeling with the generalized trigonometric series function. The experimental data, covering over 120 h, were taken from two situations: one is the data collected by the original smartphone antenna; the other is the external geodetic-grade antenna. The TEC data obtained from the collocated geodetic-grade receiver are used as reference data to evaluate the performance of the TEC values from XMI8. Compared to the reference data, the evaluation results show that the ionospheric STEC extraction accuracy can reach total electron content unit (TECU) values of 0.17 and 0.11 under the two different situations in the continuous carrier phase satellite arc without cycle slips. In addition, the VTEC modeling accuracy is above 5 and 2 TECU in the two different situations, respectively. Thus, we concluded that consumer-level GNSS chipsets are highly potential in the future to increase the ionospheric monitoring station density due to their low costs and good data quality. Numéro de notice : A2022-713 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01329-w Date de publication en ligne : 04/09/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01329-w Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101591 [article]

Adaptive Kalman filter for real-time precise orbit determination of low earth orbit satellites based on pseudorange and epoch-differenced carrier-phase measurements / Min Li in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 9 (May-1 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 14 n° 9 (May-1 2022) . - n° 2273 Titre : Adaptive Kalman filter for real-time precise orbit determination of low earth orbit satellites based on pseudorange and epoch-differenced carrier-phase measurements Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Min Li, Auteur ; Tianhe Xu, Auteur ; Yali Shi, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 2273 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Techniques orbitales [Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière [Termes IGN] filtre adaptatif [Termes IGN] filtre de Kalman [Termes IGN] matrice de covariance [Termes IGN] mesurage de phase [Termes IGN] orbite basse [Termes IGN] orbitographie [Termes IGN] orbitographie par GNSS [Termes IGN] temps réel Résumé : (auteur) Real-time precise orbit determination (POD) of low earth orbiters (LEOs) is crucial for orbit maintenance as well as autonomous operation for space missions. The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become the dominant technique for real-time precise orbit determination (POD) of LEOs. However, the observation conditions of near-earth space are more critical than those on the ground. Real-time POD accuracy can be seriously affected when the observation environment suffers from strong space events, i.e., a heavy solar storm. In this study, we proposed a reliable adaptive Kalman filter based on pseudorange and epoch-differenced carrier-phase measurements. This approach uses the epoch-differenced carrier phase to eliminate the ambiguities and thus reduces the significant number of unknown parameters. Real calculations demonstrate that four to five observed GPS satellites is sufficient to solve reliable position parameters. Furthermore, with accurate pseudorange and epoch-differenced carrier-phase-based reference orbits, orbital dynamic disturbance can be detected precisely and reliably with an adaptive Kalman filter. Analyses of Swarm-A POD show that sub-meter level real-time orbit solutions can be obtained when the observation conditions are good. For poor observation conditions such as the GRACE-A satellite on 8 September 2017, when fewer than five GPS satellites were observed for 14% of the observation time, 1–2 m orbital accuracy can still be achieved with the proposed approach. Numéro de notice : A2022-386 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14092273 Date de publication en ligne : 08/05/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14092273 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100665 [article]

Multi-GNSS real-time precise clock estimation considering the correction of inter-satellite code biases / Liang Chen in GPS solutions, vol 25 n° 2 (April 2021)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 25 n° 2 (April 2021) . - 17 p. Titre : Multi-GNSS real-time precise clock estimation considering the correction of inter-satellite code biases Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Liang Chen, Auteur ; Min Li, Auteur ; Ying Zhao, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : 17 p. Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] correction [Termes IGN] décalage d'horloge [Termes IGN] erreur systématique inter-systèmes [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou [Termes IGN] positionnement par Galileo [Termes IGN] positionnement par GLONASS [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS [Termes IGN] récepteur GNSS [Termes IGN] temps réel Résumé : (Auteur) For reasons mostly related to chip shape distortions, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) observations are corrupted by receiver-dependent biases. These are often stable in the long term, though numerically different depending on the signal frequency, satellite system and receiver manufacturer. Based on the mixed-differenced model combining undifferenced pseudorange with epoch-differenced carrier phase observations, we present a multi-GNSS real-time precise clock estimation model considering correction of inter-satellite code biases (ISCBs). Pre-estimated receiver-dependent ISCB corrections are introduced to correct the inter-receiver, inter-satellite and inter-system biases largely. Then the number of estimated parameters is reduced to a manageable level for real-time estimation. Comparisons with post-processed data show that compared to undifferenced, epoch-differenced and non-bias-corrected mixed-differenced models, the proposed bias-corrected model can greatly reduce the precise clock offset systematic biases, especially for GLONASS and BeiDou. The test results show the root mean square data reductions are improved by up to 96% for GLONASS, 78% for BeiDou and 40% for GPS and Galileo. Numéro de notice : A2021-092 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-01065-z Date de publication en ligne : 15/01/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-01065-z Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96883 [article]

A multi-frequency and multi-GNSS method for the retrieval of the ionospheric TEC and intraday variability of receiver DCBs / Min Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n° 10 (October 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 94 n° 10 (October 2020) . - 14 p. Titre : A multi-frequency and multi-GNSS method for the retrieval of the ionospheric TEC and intraday variability of receiver DCBs Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Min Li, Auteur ; Yunbin Yuan, Auteur ; Xiao Zhang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 14 p. Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] fréquence multiple [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] positionnement différentiel [Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou [Termes IGN] récepteur GNSS [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons [Termes IGN] variation diurne Résumé : (auteur) As one of the important factors influencing the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) estimation accuracy, receiver differential code biases (DCBs) should be properly removed from global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements. The intraday variability in receiver DCBs (rDCBs), which is usually ignored in the commonly used ionospheric observable retrieval procedure, has been identified as one of the major errors degrading the accuracy of TEC estimation. The modified carrier-to-code leveling (MCCL) method can be adopted to eliminate the impact of the rDCB variability on the retrieval of the ionospheric TEC from dual-frequency (DF) GNSS observations. In this contribution, we extend the MCCL method from two aspects. First, the DF MCCL method is adapted to the multi-frequency (MF) case, in which DF, triple-frequency or even arbitrary-frequency observations can be readily processed to simultaneously estimate both the ionospheric TEC and rDCB variations. Second, the MCCL method is refined to enable the handling of GLONASS data by accounting for the effects of code inter-frequency biases induced by the frequency division multiple access (FDMA) technology. Based on the test results, the retrieval accuracy of the ionospheric TEC using our proposed method can be improved from 9.47 TECu to 2.67 TECu in the presence of significant intraday rDCB variations. We discovered that the maximum difference in the rDCB variations of the same satellite system between different frequency bands can be as large as 10 ns. The dependence of multi-GNSS and MF rDCB variations on the ambient temperature is further verified in this study. The results show that the temperature dependence of rDCB varies among different satellite systems and frequency bands. Compared to the Galileo, GPS and GLONASS satellite systems, the Beidou system (BDS) rDCB estimates exhibit a stronger correlation with the measured temperature. The percentages of stations with the mean absolute Pearson correlation coefficient value above 0.8 are 27.17% for GPS, 30.58% for GLONASS, 43.78% for BDS and 33.9% for Galileo, respectively. Numéro de notice : A2020-650 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-020-01437-w Date de publication en ligne : 12/10/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-020-01437-w Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96083 [article]

Real-Time Precise Point Positioning (RTPPP) with raw observations and its application in real-time regional ionospheric VTEC modeling / Teng Liu in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 11 (November 2018)  

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Method for real-time self-calibrating GLONASS code inter-frequency bias and improvements on single point positioning / Liang Chen in GPS solutions, vol 22 n° 4 (October 2018)  

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Joint estimation of vertical total electron content (VTEC) and satellite differential code biases (SDCBs) using low-cost receivers / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 4 (April 2018)  

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Precise orbit determination of the Fengyun-3C satellite using onboard GPS and BDS observations / Min Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 11 (November 2017)  

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Estimation and analysis of Galileo differential code biases / Min Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 3 (March 2017)  

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Real-time high-precision earthquake monitoring using single-frequency GPS receivers / Min Li in GPS solutions, vol 19 n° 1 (January 2015)  

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Initial results of precise orbit and clock determination for COMPASS navigation satellite system / Qile Zhao in Journal of geodesy, vol 87 n° 5 (May 2013)  

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