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Vertical deformation and residual altimeter systematic errors around continental Australia inferred from a Kalman-based approach / Mohammad-Hadi Rezvani in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 12 (December 2022)
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Titre : Vertical deformation and residual altimeter systematic errors around continental Australia inferred from a Kalman-based approach Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Mohammad-Hadi Rezvani, Auteur ; Christopher S. Watson, Auteur ; Matt A. King, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 96 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale
[Termes IGN] altimètre
[Termes IGN] Australie occidentale (Australie)
[Termes IGN] déformation verticale de la croute terrestre
[Termes IGN] données altimétriques
[Termes IGN] données marégraphiques
[Termes IGN] erreur systématique
[Termes IGN] filtre de Kalman
[Termes IGN] montée du niveau de la mer
[Termes IGN] série temporelle
[Termes IGN] variabilitéRésumé : (auteur) We further developed a space–time Kalman approach to investigate time-fixed and time-variable signals in vertical land motion (VLM) and residual altimeter systematic errors around the Australian coast, through combining multi-mission absolute sea-level (ASL), relative sea-level from tide gauges (TGs) and Global Positioning System (GPS) height time series. Our results confirmed coastal subsidence in broad agreement with GPS velocities and unexplained by glacial isostatic adjustment alone. VLM determined at individual TGs differs from spatially interpolated GPS velocities by up to ~ 1.5 mm/year, yielding a ~ 40% reduction in RMSE of geographic ASL variability at TGs around Australia. Our mission-specific altimeter error estimates are small but significant (typically within ~ ± 0.5–1.0 mm/year), with negligible effect on the average ASL rate. Our circum-Australia ASL rate is higher than previous results, suggesting an acceleration in the ~ 27-year time series. Analysis of the time-variability of altimeter errors confirmed stability for most missions except for Jason-2 with an anomaly reaching ~ 2.8 mm/year in the first ~ 3.5 years of operation, supported by analysis from the Bass Strait altimeter validation facility. Data predominantly from the reference missions and located well off narrow shelf regions was shown to bias results by as much as ~ 0.5 mm/year and highlights that residual oceanographic signals remain a fundamental limitation. Incorporating non-reference-mission measurements well on the shelf helped to mitigate this effect. Comparing stacked nonlinear VLM estimates and altimeter systematic errors with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation shows weak correlation and suggests our approach improves the ability to explore nonlinear localized signals and is suitable for other regional- and global-scale studies. Numéro de notice : A2022-897 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01680-3 Date de publication en ligne : 05/12/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01680-3 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102251
in Journal of geodesy > vol 96 n° 12 (December 2022) . - n° 96[article]Estimating ocean tide loading displacements with GPS and GLONASS / Bogdan Matviichuk in Solid Earth, vol 11 n° 5 (September - October 2020)
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Titre : Estimating ocean tide loading displacements with GPS and GLONASS Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Bogdan Matviichuk, Auteur ; Matt A. King, Auteur ; Christopher S. Watson, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 1849 - 1863 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale
[Termes IGN] données GLONASS
[Termes IGN] données GPS
[Termes IGN] estimation de position
[Termes IGN] surcharge océaniqueRésumé : (auteur) Ground displacements due to ocean tide loading have previously been successfully observed using Global Positioning System (GPS) data, and such estimates for the principal lunar M2 constituent have been used to infer the rheology and structure of the asthenosphere. The GPS orbital repeat period is close to that of several other major tidal constituents (K1, K2, S2); thus, GPS estimates of ground displacement at these frequencies are subject to GPS systematic errors. We assess the addition of GLONASS (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System) to increase the accuracy and reliability of eight major ocean tide loading constituents: four semi-diurnal (M2, S2, N2, K2) and four diurnal constituents (K1, O1, P1, Q1). We revisit a previous GPS study, focusing on 21 sites in the UK and western Europe, expanding it with an assessment of GLONASS and GPS+GLONASS estimates. In the region, both GPS and GLONASS data have been abundant since 2010.0. We therefore focus on the period 2010.0–2014.0, a span considered long enough to reliably estimate the major constituents. Data were processed with a kinematic precise point positioning (PPP) strategy to produce site coordinate time series for each of three different modes: GPS, GLONASS and GPS+GLONASS. The GPS solution with ambiguities resolved was used as a baseline for performance assessment of the additional modes. GPS+GLONASS shows very close agreement with ambiguity resolved GPS for lunar constituents (M2, N2, O1, Q1) but with substantial differences for solar-related constituents (S2, K2, K1, P1), with solutions including GLONASS being generally closer to model estimates. While no single constellation mode performs best for all constituents and components, we propose to use a combination of constellation modes to recover tidal parameters: GPS+GLONASS for most constituents, except for K2 and K1 where GLONASS (north and up) and GPS with ambiguities resolved (east) perform best. Numéro de notice : A2020-837 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.5194/se-11-1849-2020 Date de publication en ligne : 14/10/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1849-2020 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98169
in Solid Earth > vol 11 n° 5 (September - October 2020) . - pp 1849 - 1863[article]Levelling co-located GNSS and tide gauge stations using GNSS reflectometry / Alvaro Santamaria Gomez in Journal of geodesy, vol 89 n° 3 (March 2015)
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Titre : Levelling co-located GNSS and tide gauge stations using GNSS reflectometry Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Alvaro Santamaria Gomez, Auteur ; Christopher S. Watson, Auteur ; Médéric Gravelle, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2015 Article en page(s) : pp 241 - 258 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique
[Termes IGN] analyse comparative
[Termes IGN] erreur systématique
[Termes IGN] étalonnage d'instrument
[Termes IGN] hauteur ellipsoïdale
[Termes IGN] marée océanique
[Termes IGN] marégraphe
[Termes IGN] nivellement
[Termes IGN] point de liaison (géodésie)
[Termes IGN] propagation troposphérique
[Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit
[Termes IGN] réflectance de surface
[Termes IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS
[Termes IGN] signal GPSRésumé : (auteur) The GNSS reflectometry technique provides geometric information on the environment surrounding the GNSS antenna including the vertical distance to a reflecting surface. We use sea-surface reflections of GPS signals, recorded as oscillations in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), to estimate the GNSS to tide gauge (TG) levelling tie, and thus the ellipsoidal heights of the TG. We develop approaches to isolate SNR data dominated by sea-surface reflections and to remove SNR frequency changes caused by the dynamic sea surface. Comparison with in situ levelling at eight sites reveals mean differences at the centimetre level for satellites above 12∘ elevation, with four sites showing differences of 3 cm or smaller. These differences include errors in the in situ levelling, in the antenna calibration model and in the TG measurements, and so represent an upper bound on our technique’s error. Data sampling (1 or 30 s) does not significantly affect the results. We detect systematic errors at the decimetre level related to satellite elevations below 12∘ and to sea-surface height and also differences between results from the L1 and L2 GPS signals larger than 15 cm at two sites. These systematic errors remain unexplained; differences between GPS signals are attributed to receiver-dependent differences in the SNR measurements, while the elevation-dependent error is attributed to unmodelled phase effects such as those caused by tropospheric refraction and sea-surface roughness. Using our approach, we identify a levelling offset of 1.5 cm related to a TG sensor change, illustrating our technique’s value for TG reference monitoring. Numéro de notice : A2015-337 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-014-0784-y Date de publication en ligne : 20/12/2014 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-014-0784-y Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=76705
in Journal of geodesy > vol 89 n° 3 (March 2015) . - pp 241 - 258[article]Evaluating tree detection and segmentation routines on very high resolution UAV LiDAR data / Luke Wallace in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 52 n° 12 (December 2014)
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Titre : Evaluating tree detection and segmentation routines on very high resolution UAV LiDAR data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Luke Wallace, Auteur ; Arko Lucieer, Auteur ; Christopher S. Watson, Auteur Année de publication : 2014 Article en page(s) : pp 7619 - 7628 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image optique
[Termes IGN] arbre (flore)
[Termes IGN] canopée
[Termes IGN] contour
[Termes IGN] détection de cible
[Termes IGN] données lidar
[Termes IGN] drone
[Termes IGN] Eucalyptus globulus
[Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres
[Termes IGN] image à très haute résolution
[Termes IGN] implémentation (informatique)
[Termes IGN] prise de vue aérienne
[Termes IGN] semis de pointsRésumé : (Auteur) Light detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is becoming an increasingly used tool to support decision-making processes within forest operations. Area-based methods that derive information on the condition of a forest based on the distribution of points within the canopy have been proven to produce reliable and consistent results. Individual tree-based methods, however, are not yet used operationally in the industry. This is due to problems in detecting and delineating individual trees under varying forest conditions resulting in an underestimation of the stem count and biases toward larger trees. The aim of this paper is to use high-resolution LiDAR data captured from a small multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle platform to determine the influence of the detection algorithm and point density on the accuracy of tree detection and delineation. The study was conducted in a four-year-old Eucalyptus globulus stand representing an important stage of growth for forest management decision-making process. Five different tree detection routines were implemented, which delineate trees directly from the point cloud, voxel space, and the canopy height model (CHM). The results suggest that both algorithm and point density are important considerations in the accuracy of the detection and delineation of individual trees. The best performing method that utilized both the CHM and the original point cloud was able to correctly detect 98% of the trees in the study area. Increases in point density (from 5 to 50 points/m2) lead to significant improvements (of up to 8%) in the rate of omission for algorithms that made use of the high density of the data. Numéro de notice : A2014-640 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2315649 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2014.2315649 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=75077
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Code-barres Cote Support Localisation Section Disponibilité 065-2014121 RAB Revue Centre de documentation En réserve 3L Disponible Empirical modelling of site-specific errors in continuous GPS data / Michael Moore in Journal of geodesy, vol 88 n° 9 (September 2014)
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Titre : Empirical modelling of site-specific errors in continuous GPS data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Michael Moore, Auteur ; Christopher S. Watson, Auteur ; Matt A. King, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2014 Article en page(s) : pp 887-900 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale
[Termes IGN] données GPS
[Termes IGN] erreur de positionnement
[Termes IGN] modélisation
[Termes IGN] phase GPSRésumé : (Auteur) Continuous global positioning system (GPS) stations propagate biases and spurious signals into the derived parameter time series when the measurements are subject to site-specific effects, such as multipath. This is a particular problem in the investigation of geophysical and atmospheric phenomena where signals may be small in magnitude. A methodology to remove these erroneous signals from long-term time series will significantly increase the usefulness of the derived time series. This work provides the theoretical basis for use of an empirical site model (ESM) derived from post-fit phase residuals to mitigate unmodelled site-specific errors. Additionally, we also investigate the effectiveness of applying an ESM to a regional GPS network and a short baseline solution. Under most observing scenarios, we show that the ESM approach is predicted to improve the precision and accuracy of the site coordinates. However, it is important to note that we found some scenarios where the ESM can introduce a bias. For instance, when the antenna is mounted close to the ground. In this scenario, for a short baseline, we observed the introduction of a 4-mm bias in height. Use of an ESM for the same short baseline with an uncalibrated radome substantially improves the results by removing a large bias of over 10 mm in height. Similarly, application of an ESM derived from historic data yields similar improvements. This demonstrates that the ESM can be a powerful tool when applied to appropriate site-specific configurations and could potentially be implemented in routine GPS analysis for a broad range of applications. Numéro de notice : A2014-458 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-014-0729-5 Date de publication en ligne : 03/06/2014 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-014-0729-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=74030
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