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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)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 92 n° 11 (November 2018) . - pp 1267 - 1283 Titre : Real-Time Precise Point Positioning (RTPPP) with raw observations and its application in real-time regional ionospheric VTEC modeling Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Teng Liu, Auteur ; Baocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Yunbin Yuan, Auteur ; Min Li, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Article en page(s) : pp 1267 - 1283 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique [Termes IGN] temps réel [Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons Résumé : (Auteur) Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is an absolute positioning technology mainly used in post data processing. With the continuously increasing demand for real-time high-precision applications in positioning, timing, retrieval of atmospheric parameters, etc., Real-Time PPP (RTPPP) and its applications have drawn more and more research attention in recent years. This study focuses on the models, algorithms and ionospheric applications of RTPPP on the basis of raw observations, in which high-precision slant ionospheric delays are estimated among others in real time. For this purpose, a robust processing strategy for multi-station RTPPP with raw observations has been proposed and realized, in which real-time data streams and State-Space-Representative (SSR) satellite orbit and clock corrections are used. With the RTPPP-derived slant ionospheric delays from a regional network, a real-time regional ionospheric Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) modeling method is proposed based on Adjusted Spherical Harmonic Functions and a Moving-Window Filter. SSR satellite orbit and clock corrections from different IGS analysis centers are evaluated. Ten globally distributed real-time stations are used to evaluate the positioning performances of the proposed RTPPP algorithms in both static and kinematic modes. RMS values of positioning errors in static/kinematic mode are 5.2/15.5, 4.7/17.4 and 12.8/46.6 mm, for north, east and up components, respectively. Real-time slant ionospheric delays from RTPPP are compared with those from the traditional Carrier-to-Code Leveling (CCL) method, in terms of function model, formal precision and between-receiver differences of short baseline. Results show that slant ionospheric delays from RTPPP are more precise and have a much better convergence performance than those from the CCL method in real-time processing. 30 real-time stations from the Asia-Pacific Reference Frame network are used to model the ionospheric VTECs over Australia in real time, with slant ionospheric delays from both RTPPP and CCL methods for comparison. RMS of the VTEC differences between RTPPP/CCL method and CODE final products is 0.91/1.09 TECU, and RMS of the VTEC differences between RTPPP and CCL methods is 0.67 TECU. Slant Total Electron Contents retrieved from different VTEC models are also validated with epoch-differenced Geometry-Free combinations of dual-frequency phase observations, and mean RMS values are 2.14, 2.33 and 2.07 TECU for RTPPP method, CCL method and CODE final products, respectively. This shows the superiority of RTPPP-derived slant ionospheric delays in real-time ionospheric VTEC modeling. Numéro de notice : A2018-463 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1118-2 Date de publication en ligne : 29/01/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1118-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=91062 [article]

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)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 22 n° 4 (October 2018) Titre : Method for real-time self-calibrating GLONASS code inter-frequency bias and improvements on single point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Liang Chen, Auteur ; Min Li, Auteur ; Zhigang Hu, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] autoétalonnage [Termes IGN] données GLONASS [Termes IGN] données GPS [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] temps réel Mots-clés libres : code inter-frequency bias (cIFB) Résumé : (Auteur) Utilization of frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) leads to GLONASS pseudorange and carrier phase observations suffering from variable levels inter-frequency bias (IFB). The bias related with carrier phase can be absorbed by ambiguities. However, the unequal code inter-frequency bias (cIFB) will degrade the accuracy of pseudorange observations, which will affect positioning accuracy and convergence of precise point positioning (PPP) when including GLONASS satellites. Based on observations made on un-differenced (UD) ionospheric-free combinations, GLONASS cIFB parameters are estimated as a constant to achieve GLONASS cIFB real-time self-calibration on a single station. A total of 23 stations, with different manufacturing backgrounds, are used to analyze the characteristics of GLONASS cIFB and its relationship with variable receiver hardware. The results show that there is an obvious common trend in cIFBs estimated using broadcast ephemeris for all of the different manufacturers, and there are unequal GLONASS inter-satellite cIFB that match brand manufacture. In addition, a particularly good consistency is found between self-calibrated receiver-dependent GLONASS cIFB and the IFB products of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). Via a comparative experiment, it is also found that the algorithm of cIFB real-time self-calibration not only corrects receiver-dependent cIFB, but can moreover eliminate satellite-dependent cIFB, providing more stable results and further improving global navigation satellite system (GNSS) point positioning accuracy. The root mean square (RMS) improvements of single GLONASS standard point positioning (SPP) reach up to 54.18 and 53.80% in horizontal and vertical direction, respectively. The study’s GLONASS cIFB self-estimation can realize good self-consistency between cIFB and stations, working to further promote convergence efficiency relative to GPS + GLONASS PPP. An average improvement percentage of 19.03% is observed, realizing a near-consistent accuracy with GPS + GLONASS fusion PPP. Numéro de notice : A2018-378 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0774-2 Date de publication en ligne : 17/08/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0774-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=90782 [article]

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)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 92 n° 4 (April 2018) . - pp 401 - 413 Titre : Joint estimation of vertical total electron content (VTEC) and satellite differential code biases (SDCBs) using low-cost receivers Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Baocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Peter J.G. Teunissen, Auteur ; Yunbin Yuan, Auteur ; Hongxing Zhang, Auteur ; Min Li, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Article en page(s) : pp 401 - 413 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] propagation ionosphérique [Termes IGN] récepteur GNSS [Termes IGN] récepteur monofréquence [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons Résumé : (Auteur) Vertical total electron content (VTEC) parameters estimated using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data are of great interest for ionosphere sensing. Satellite differential code biases (SDCBs) account for one source of error which, if left uncorrected, can deteriorate performance of positioning, timing and other applications. The customary approach to estimate VTEC along with SDCBs from dual-frequency GNSS data, hereinafter referred to as DF approach, consists of two sequential steps. The first step seeks to retrieve ionospheric observables through the carrier-to-code leveling technique. This observable, related to the slant total electron content (STEC) along the satellite–receiver line-of-sight, is biased also by the SDCBs and the receiver differential code biases (RDCBs). By means of thin-layer ionospheric model, in the second step one is able to isolate the VTEC, the SDCBs and the RDCBs from the ionospheric observables. In this work, we present a single-frequency (SF) approach, enabling the joint estimation of VTEC and SDCBs using low-cost receivers; this approach is also based on two steps and it differs from the DF approach only in the first step, where we turn to the precise point positioning technique to retrieve from the single-frequency GNSS data the ionospheric observables, interpreted as the combination of the STEC, the SDCBs and the biased receiver clocks at the pivot epoch. Our numerical analyses clarify how SF approach performs when being applied to GPS L1 data collected by a single receiver under both calm and disturbed ionospheric conditions. The daily time series of zenith VTEC estimates has an accuracy ranging from a few tenths of a TEC unit (TECU) to approximately 2 TECU. For 73–96% of GPS satellites in view, the daily estimates of SDCBs do not deviate, in absolute value, more than 1 ns from their ground truth values published by the Centre for Orbit Determination in Europe. Numéro de notice : A2018-062 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-017-1071-5 Date de publication en ligne : 05/10/2017 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-017-1071-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89398 [article]

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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