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Undifferenced and uncombined GNSS time and frequency transfer with integer ambiguity resolution / Xiaolong Mi in Journal of geodesy, vol 97 n° 2 (February 2023)
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Titre : Undifferenced and uncombined GNSS time and frequency transfer with integer ambiguity resolution Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Xiaolong Mi, Auteur ; Baocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Ahmed El-Mowafy, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : n° 13 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale
[Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière
[Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique
[Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel
[Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis
[Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté
[Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique
[Termes IGN] temps-fréquenceRésumé : (auteur) Precise point positioning (PPP) has been a competitive global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technique for time and frequency transfer. However, the classical PPP is usually based on the ionosphere-free combination of dual-frequency observations, which has limited flexibility in the multi-frequency scenario. More importantly, the unknown integer ambiguities are not restored to the integer nature, making the advantage of high-precision carrier phase observations underutilized. In this contribution, using the undifferenced and uncombined (UDUC) observations, we derive the time and frequency transfer model suitable for multi-constellation and multi-frequency scenarios. Notably, in short- and medium-baseline time and frequency transfer, the ionosphere-fixed and ionosphere-weighted UDUC models are derived, respectively, by making full use of the single-differenced (SD) ionospheric constraints. The proposed model can be applied to short-, medium- and long-baseline time and frequency transfer. The ambiguities are solved in a double-differenced (DD) form and can thus be restored to integers. To verify the feasibility of the model, GPS data from several time laboratories were collected, and the performance of the time and frequency transfer were analyzed with different baseline lengths. The results showed that the ionosphere-fixed and ionosphere-weighted UDUC models with integer ambiguity resolution could improve the frequency stability by 25–60% and 9–30% at an averaging time of several tens of seconds to 1 day for short- and medium-baseline, respectively. Concerning the long-baseline, the UDUC model is 10–25% more stable than PPP for averaging time below a few thousands second and over 1 day. Numéro de notice : A2022-133 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01689-8 Date de publication en ligne : 06/02/2023 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01689-8 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102677
in Journal of geodesy > vol 97 n° 2 (February 2023) . - n° 13[article]PPP-RTK: from common-view to all-in-view GNSS networks / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 12 (December 2022)
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Titre : PPP-RTK: from common-view to all-in-view GNSS networks Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Baocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Pengyu Hou, Auteur ; Robert Odolinski, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 102 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale
[Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière
[Termes IGN] erreur de phase
[Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel
[Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS
[Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis
[Termes IGN] précision du positionnement
[Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïtéRésumé : (auteur) Integer ambiguity resolution-enabled precise point positioning (PPP), otherwise known as PPP real-time kinematic (PPP-RTK), recovers the integer nature of ambiguities at a user receiver by delivering the satellite phase biases (SPBs) estimated from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) network. Due to the rank-deficiency existing between the satellite and receiver phase biases and the ambiguities, the formulation of PPP-RTK model needs to choose a set of unknown parameters as the datum (or the S-basis). Despite the fact that there are non-unique datum choices, one prefers a PPP-RTK model where the estimable SPBs contain a minimum number of datum ambiguities. We will show that otherwise there will be discontinuities occurring in datum ambiguities that will lead to unfavorable jumps in the estimated SPBs and frequent ambiguity resolution (re-)initialization on the user side. For this to occur one normally restricts to a common-view (CV) network, where the satellites are commonly visible to all receivers involved, and constructs the PPP-RTK model by choosing the phase biases and the ambiguities, pertaining to one receiver, as the datum. In doing so the CV model is capable of estimating the SPBs with each bias containing only one datum ambiguity. In this contribution we extend the CV model to an all-in-view (AV) network case where the satellites tracked can differ across receivers, but at least one satellite is commonly visible; this is practical as the network size is normally consisting of baseline lengths of several hundreds of kilometers. Contrary to the CV model, in the AV model the phase biases and the ambiguities pertaining to one satellite is selected as the datum, such that, the number of datum ambiguities entering into the estimable SPBs is always at the minimum as the SPBs are formulated in a between-satellite single-differenced form. The benefits with AV model are that it relieves the stringent satellite visibility as required by the CV model and, at the same time, reduces to the best possible extent any jumps in the estimated SPBs as well as the necessary ambiguity resolution (re-)initialization on the user side. Experiments conducted using multi-GNSS data collected in both CV and AV networks verify that the AV model always outperforms the CV one, as measured by both the time-to-first-fix as well as the positioning accuracy when compared to very precise benchmark coordinates. Numéro de notice : A2022-899 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01693-y Date de publication en ligne : 13/12/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01693-y Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102257
in Journal of geodesy > vol 96 n° 12 (December 2022) . - n° 102[article]Multi-frequency phase-only PPP-RTK model applied to BeiDou data / Pengyu Hou in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022)
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Titre : Multi-frequency phase-only PPP-RTK model applied to BeiDou data Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Pengyu Hou, Auteur ; Baocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Yury V. Yasyukevich, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 76 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale
[Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière
[Termes IGN] données BeiDou
[Termes IGN] erreur de phase
[Termes IGN] fréquence multiple
[Termes IGN] modèle de simulation
[Termes IGN] phase GNSS
[Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel
[Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou
[Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis
[Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté
[Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique
[Termes IGN] trajet multipleRésumé : (auteur) Typically, navigation software processes global navigation satellite system (GNSS) phase observables along with the code observables to achieve high-precision positioning. However, the unmodeled code-related errors, typically multipath effects, may deteriorate the positioning performance. Such effects are well known for the second generation BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS-2). To prevent this adverse effect on the state-of-the-art positioning technique, namely integer ambiguity resolution-enabled precise point positioning (PPP-RTK), we propose a multi-frequency phase-only PPP-RTK model. This model excludes the code observables and addresses the rank deficiency problem underlying the phase observation equations at the undifferenced and uncombined level. To verify the model, we collect five-day triple-frequency BDS 30-s data from a network of seven reference stations (about 112 km apart) to estimate the products on the network side. Based on these products, we conduct simulated dynamic positioning at a user station to test the phase-only PPP-RTK model and compare it with the customary code-plus-phase (CPP) model. The results show that the satellite phase biases, existing only at the third frequency, have a precision of better than two centimeters, while the precision of the satellite clock and ionospheric delay is better than eight centimeters. Due to the strong correlation between individual corrections, it is necessary to assess the quality of combined products, including the satellite clock, satellite phase bias and ionospheric delay, the precision of which is several millimeters to two centimeters, which is sufficiently precise for user positioning. Regarding BDS-2 positioning, the time-to-first-fix (TTFF) of the CPP PPP-RTK is 12 epochs, while it is only three epochs for the phase-only PPP-RTK. The reason why the CPP model underperforms the phase-only model is that the BDS-2 data collected are subject to notable code multipath. We show that the code multipath in the third-generation BDS (BDS-3) data is mild, so the CPP PPP-RTK achieves instantaneous centimeter-level positioning with a TTFF of one epoch. The BDS-3 phase-only PPP-RTK obtains virtually the same positioning results, but the TTFF is two epochs. When combining BDS-2 with BDS-3, the TTFF of both models remains unchanged compared to that of the BDS-3 solutions, implying that ambiguity resolution based on the stronger dual-system CPP model is robust to the BDS-2 code multipath. However, the ambiguity-float solution of the CPP PPP-RTK is adversely affected by the code multipath and requires 43 epochs to convergence, while its phase-only counterpart needs 36 epochs. Numéro de notice : A2022-377 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01263-x Date de publication en ligne : 10/05/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01263-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100637
in GPS solutions > vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022) . - n° 76[article]Estimation of code observation-specific biases (OSBs) for the modernized multi-frequency and multi-GNSS signals: an undifferenced and uncombined approach / Teng Liu in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 8 (August 2021)
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Titre : Estimation of code observation-specific biases (OSBs) for the modernized multi-frequency and multi-GNSS signals: an undifferenced and uncombined approach Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Teng Liu, Auteur ; Baocheng Zhang, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 97 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] code GNSS
[Termes IGN] combinaison linéaire
[Termes IGN] erreur systématique de code différentiel
[Termes IGN] fréquence multiple
[Termes IGN] phase GNSS
[Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique
[Termes IGN] signal GNSS
[Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons
[Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSSRésumé : (auteur) For a long time, code biases of global navigation satellite system (GNSSs) have been parameterized and presented in the differential mode, namely the commonly-known differential code biases (DCB). However, with the continuous modernization of the existing constellations and rapid developments of the new systems, various new frequencies and types of GNSS signals are emerging, which makes the traditional DCB mode less flexible and efficient to handle the new situations and challenges. Recently, code biases in observation-specific representation, which finally provides observation-specific biases (OSBs), turns out to be a good solution and is gradually accepted by the GNSS community, though existing products are generated based on routine procedures and few studies concentrate on the new methods. In view of it, this study aims to propose a rigorous, flexible and efficient approach of OSB estimation for the modernized multi-frequency and, multi-GNSS signals. To achieve this, instead of being-based on linear combinations of raw observations in the existing literature, an extended multi-frequency geometry-free model is first established based on undifferenced and uncombined observations, which can adapt to observations of arbitrary frequencies and types in a compatible and flexible way and is used to extract the various types of linear combinations of the interested OSBs. Then, regarding the previously-obtained linear combinations as virtual observables after station-based ionosphere modeling, all OSB parameters are setup and estimated in a single normal equation, during which a clear identification and elimination of the rank deficiencies in the linear system is carefully conducted by introducing different types of constraints. The proposed new method is validated with one month of real data to generate totally 32 types of OSBs for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, and QZSS. The estimated OSBs are compared with existing OSB and DCB products from other agencies. Results indicate that the proposed method can be used as a flexible and precise method for full-constellation and full-type OSB estimation. Numéro de notice : A2021-584 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-021-01549-x Date de publication en ligne : 12/08/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01549-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98199
in Journal of geodesy > vol 95 n° 8 (August 2021) . - n° 97[article]Integer-estimable FDMA model as an enabler of GLONASS PPP-RTK / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 8 (August 2021)
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Titre : Integer-estimable FDMA model as an enabler of GLONASS PPP-RTK Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Baocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Pengyu Hou, Auteur ; Jiuping Zha, Auteur ; Teng Liu, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 91 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale
[Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière
[Termes IGN] correction ionosphérique
[Termes IGN] décalage d'horloge
[Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel
[Termes IGN] positionnement par GLONASS
[Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS
[Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis
[Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté
[Termes IGN] temps de convergenceRésumé : (auteur) PPP-RTK extends the precise point positioning (PPP) concept by incorporating the idea of integer ambiguity resolution underlying the real-time kinematic (RTK) technique, making rapid initialization and high accuracy attainable with a standalone receiver. While PPP-RTK has been well achieved by using global navigation satellite system code division multiple access observables, GLONASS PPP-RTK is nonetheless challenging due to the nature of frequency division multiple access (FDMA) observables. In this work, we present a GLONASS PPP-RTK concept that takes advantage of the integer-estimable FDMA (IE-FDMA) model recently proposed in Teunissen (in GPS Solut 23(4):1–19, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-019-0889-0) to guarantee rigorous integer ambiguity resolution and simultaneously takes care of the presence of the inter-frequency biases (IFBs) in homogeneous and heterogeneous network configurations. When conducting GLONASS PPP-RTK based on a network of homogeneous receivers, code and phase observation equations are used to construct the IE-FDMA model, in which the IFBs are implicitly eliminated through reparameterization. For a network consisting of heterogeneous receivers, we exclude the code observables and develop a phase-only IE-FDMA model instead, thereby circumventing the adverse effects of IFBs. For verification purposes, we collect a set of five-day global positioning system (GPS) and GLONASS data from two regional networks: one equipped with homogeneous receivers and another with heterogeneous receivers. The results show that the GLONASS-specific network corrections, including satellite clocks, satellite phase biases, and ionospheric delays estimated by the two networks, are as precise as those of their GPS-specific counterparts. Via satellite clock and phase bias corrections, we succeed in fixing both GPS and GLONASS ambiguities, shortening the convergence time to 5 (12) min, compared to 11 (18) min of ambiguity-float positioning in the case of a homogeneous (heterogeneous) network with a data sampling rate of 30 s. For ambiguity-fixed positioning, the convergence time defined in this work also indicates the time to first fix since the positioning error converges to the centimeter level once successful integer ambiguity resolution is achieved. Adding ionospheric corrections further speeds up the initialization in the two networks, with the convergence time being reduced to 0.5 (3) min. Compared with GPS-only positioning, the integration of GPS and GLONASS yields an improvement of 8–34% in accuracy and leads to a reduction of 25–50% in convergence. Numéro de notice : A2021-585 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-021-01546-0 Date de publication en ligne : 26/07/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01546-0 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98200
in Journal of geodesy > vol 95 n° 8 (August 2021) . - n° 91[article]Integer-estimable GLONASS FDMA model as applied to Kalman-filter-based short- to long-baseline RTK positioning / Pengyu Hou in GPS solutions, Vol 24 n° 4 (October 2020)
PermalinkA single-receiver geometry-free approach to stochastic modeling of multi-frequency GNSS observables / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n°4 (April 2020)
PermalinkPPP-RTK based on undifferenced and uncombined observations: theoretical and practical aspects / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°7 (July 2019)
PermalinkReal-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)
PermalinkGPS receiver phase biases estimable in PPP-RTK networks : dynamic characterization and impact analysis / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 6 (June 2018)
PermalinkJoint 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)
PermalinkOn the short-term temporal variations of GNSS receiver differential phase biases / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 5 (May 2017)
PermalinkMulti-GNSS precise point positioning (MGPPP) using raw observations / Teng Liu in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 3 (March 2017)
PermalinkOn the estimability of parameters in undifferenced, uncombined GNSS network and PPP-RTK user models by means of S-system theory / Dennis Odijk in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 1 (January 2016)
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