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An improved constrained simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique for ionospheric tomography / Yi Bin Yao in GPS solutions, Vol 24 n° 3 (July 2020)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > Vol 24 n° 3 (July 2020) Titre : An improved constrained simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique for ionospheric tomography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yi Bin Yao, Auteur ; Changzhi Zhai, Auteur ; Jian Kong, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] interpolation [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] reconstruction 3D [Termes descripteurs IGN] teneur totale en électrons [Termes descripteurs IGN] tomographie [Termes descripteurs IGN] voxel Résumé : (auteur) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is now widely used for continuous ionospheric observations. Three-dimensional computerized ionospheric tomography (3DCIT) is an important tool for the reconstruction of electron density distributions in the ionosphere through effective use of the GNSS data. More specifically, the 3DCIT technique is able to resolve the three-dimensional electron density distributions over the reconstructed area based on the GNSS slant total electron content (STEC) observations. We present an Improved Constrained Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique (ICSIRT) algorithm that differs from the traditional ionospheric tomography methods in 3 ways. First, the ICSIRT computes the electron density corrections based on the product of the intercept and electron density within voxels so that the assignment of corrections at different heights becomes more reasonable. Second, an Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation is used to restrict the electron density values in the voxels not traversed by GNSS rays, thereby ensuring the smoothness of the reconstructed region. Also, to improve the reconstruction accuracy around the HmF2 (the peak height of the F2 layer) altitude, a multiresolution grid is adopted in the vertical direction, with a 10-km resolution from 200 to 420 km and a 50-km resolution at other altitudes. The new algorithm has been applied to the GNSS data over the European and North American regions in different case studies that involve different seasonal conditions as well as a major storm. In the European region experiment, reconstruction results show that the new ICSIRT algorithm can effectively improve the reconstruction of the GNSS data. The electron density profiles retrieved from ICSIRT are much closer to the ionosonde observations than those from its predecessor, namely, the Constrained Simultaneous Iteration Reconstruction Technique (CSIRT). The reconstruction accuracy is significantly improved. In the North American region experiment, the electron density profiles in ICSIRT results show better agreement with incoherent scatter radar observations than CSIRT, even for the topside profiles. Numéro de notice : A2020-227 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-00981-4 date de publication en ligne : 18/04/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-00981-4 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94958 [article]

SIMuRG: System for Ionosphere Monitoring and Research from GNSS / Yury V. Yasyukevich in GPS solutions, Vol 24 n° 3 (July 2020)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > Vol 24 n° 3 (July 2020) Titre : SIMuRG: System for Ionosphere Monitoring and Research from GNSS Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yury V. Yasyukevich, Auteur ; Alexander V. Kiselev, Auteur ; Ilyav Zhivetiev, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] collecte de données [Termes descripteurs IGN] ionosphère [Termes descripteurs IGN] perturbation ionosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] récepteur GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] site web [Termes descripteurs IGN] surveillance [Termes descripteurs IGN] teneur totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) Currently, more than 6000 operating GNSS receivers deliver observations to multiple servers. Ionospheric data are derived from these measurements providing outstanding space coverage and time resolution. There are about 200 million independent measurements daily. Researchers need sophisticated software tools to deal with such a large amount of data. We present recent advances and products from the System for Ionosphere Monitoring and Research from GNSS (SIMuRG). Currently, SIMuRG provides the total electron content (TEC) variations filtered within 2–10 min, 10–20 min, and 20–60 min, the Rate of the TEC Index, the Along Arc TEC Rate index, and the vertical TEC. SIMuRG is an online service at http://simurg.iszf.irk.ru. The system can be used free of charge and allows calculating both maps and series for arbitrary time intervals and geographic regions. All the data products are available in the form of data or figures. We discuss the system and its geophysics applications. Numéro de notice : A2020-327 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-00983-2 date de publication en ligne : 24/04/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-00983-2 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95208 [article]

Improved supervised learning-based approach for leaf and wood classification from LiDAR point clouds of forests / Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 58 n° 5 (May 2020)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 58 n° 5 (May 2020) . - pp 3057 - 3070 Titre : Improved supervised learning-based approach for leaf and wood classification from LiDAR point clouds of forests Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Auteur ; Kim Calders, Auteur ; Matheus B. Vicari, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 3057 - 3070 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Lasergrammétrie [Termes descripteurs IGN] apprentissage automatique [Termes descripteurs IGN] apprentissage dirigé [Termes descripteurs IGN] atmosphère terrestre [Termes descripteurs IGN] canopée [Termes descripteurs IGN] classification dirigée [Termes descripteurs IGN] classification par forêts aléatoires [Termes descripteurs IGN] données lidar [Termes descripteurs IGN] faisceau laser [Termes descripteurs IGN] feuille (végétation) [Termes descripteurs IGN] foresterie [Termes descripteurs IGN] forêt feuillue [Termes descripteurs IGN] forêt tropicale [Termes descripteurs IGN] plus proche voisin (algorithme) [Termes descripteurs IGN] précision de la classification [Termes descripteurs IGN] Python (langage de programmation) [Termes descripteurs IGN] semis de points [Termes descripteurs IGN] transfert radiatif Résumé : (auteur) Accurately classifying 3-D point clouds into woody and leafy components has been an interest for applications in forestry and ecology including the better understanding of radiation transfer between canopy and atmosphere. The past decade has seen an increase in the methods attempting to classify leaves and wood in point clouds based on radiometric or geometric features. However, classification purely based on radiometric features is sensor-specific, and the method by which the local neighborhood of a point is defined affects the accuracy of classification based on geometric features. Here, we present a leaf-wood classification method combining geometrical features defined by radially bounded nearest neighbors at multiple spatial scales in a machine learning model. We compared the performance of three different machine learning models generated by the random forest (RF), XGBoost, and lightGBM algorithms. Using multiple spatial scales eliminates the need for an optimal neighborhood size selection and defining the local neighborhood by radially bounded nearest neighbors makes the method broadly applicable for point clouds of varying quality. We assessed the model performance at the individual tree- and plot-level on field data from tropical and deciduous forests, as well as on simulated point clouds. The method has an overall average accuracy of 94.2% on our data sets. For other data sets, the presented method outperformed the methods in literature in most cases without the need for additional postprocessing steps that are needed in most of the existing methods. We provide the entire framework as an open-source python package. Numéro de notice : A2020-232 Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2947198 date de publication en ligne : 31/10/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2947198 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94970 [article]

Comparative analysis of different atmospheric surface pressure models and their impacts on daily ITRF2014 GNSS residual time series / Zhao Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n°4 (April 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 94 n°4 (April 2020) Titre : Comparative analysis of different atmospheric surface pressure models and their impacts on daily ITRF2014 GNSS residual time series Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Zhao Li, Auteur ; Chen Wu, Auteur ; Tonie M. van Dam, Auteur ; Paul Rebischung , Auteur ; Zuheir Altamimi , Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Projets : 1-Pas de projet / Note générale : bibliographie This research is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Project 2016YFB0502101), the European Commission/Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaboration Scheme sponsored by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. E-PolyU 501/16), and the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (Grant No. 41525014). Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Systèmes de référence et réseaux [Termes descripteurs IGN] analyse comparative [Termes descripteurs IGN] coefficient de corrélation [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] International Terrestrial Reference Frame [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] pression atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] radar JPL [Termes descripteurs IGN] série temporelle [Termes descripteurs IGN] station GNSS Résumé : (auteur) To remove atmospheric pressure loading (ATML) effect from GNSS coordinate time series, surface pressure (SP) models are required to predict the displacements. In this paper, we modeled the 3D ATML surface displacements using the latest MERRA-2 SP grids, together with four other products (NCEP-R-1, NCEP-R-2, ERA-Interim and MERRA) for 596 globally distributed GNSS stations, and compared them with ITRF2014 residual time series. The five sets of ATML displacements are highly consistent with each other, particularly for those stations far away from coasts, of which the lowest correlations in the Up component for all the four models w.r.t MERRA-2 become larger than 0.91. ERA-Interim-derived ATML displacement performs best in reducing scatter of the GNSS height for 90.3% of the stations (89.3% for NCEP-R-1, 89.1% for NCEP-R-2, 86.4% for MERRA and 85.1% for MERRA-2). We think that this may be possibly due to the 4D variational data assimilation method applied. Considering inland stations only, more than 96% exhibit WRMS reduction in the Up direction for all five models, with an average improvement of 3–4% compared with the original ITRF2014 residual time series before ATML correction. Most stations (> 67%) also exhibit horizontal WRMS reductions based on the five models, but of small magnitudes, with most improvements (> 76%) less than 5%. In particular, most stations in South America, South Africa, Oceania and the Southern Oceans show larger WRMS reductions with MERRA-2, while all other four SP datasets lead to larger WRMS reduction for the Up component than MERRA-2 in Europe. Through comparison of the daily pressure variation from the five SP models, we conclude that the bigger model differences in the SP-induced surface displacements and their impacts on the ITRF2014 residuals for coastal/island stations are mainly due to the IB correction based on the different land–sea masks. A unique high spatial resolution land–sea mask should be applied in the future, so that model differences would come from only SP grids. Further research is also required to compare the ATML effect in ice-covered and high mountainous regions, for example the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in China, the Andes in South America, etc., where larger pressure differences between models tend to occur. Numéro de notice : A2020-159 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-020-01370-y date de publication en ligne : 20/03/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-020-01370-y Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94813 [article]

The impact of second-order ionospheric delays on the ZWD estimation with GPS and BDS measurements / Shaocheng Zhang in GPS solutions, vol 24 n° 2 (April 2020)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 24 n° 2 (April 2020) Titre : The impact of second-order ionospheric delays on the ZWD estimation with GPS and BDS measurements Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Shaocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Lei Fang, Auteur ; Guangxing Wang, Auteur ; Wei Li, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] champ géomagnétique [Termes descripteurs IGN] décalage d'horloge [Termes descripteurs IGN] données BeiDou [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GPS [Termes descripteurs IGN] gradient d'ionosphère [Termes descripteurs IGN] méthode des moindres carrés [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard ionosphèrique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) Since millimeter accuracy is required in many GNSS applications such as real-time zenith wet delay (ZWD) estimation, the higher-order ionospheric delays on GNSS signals are no longer negligible. We calculated the second-order ionospheric delays (I2) and analyzed the impact on the ZWD estimation with GPS-only and combined GPS/BDS observations. The undifferenced PPP model with fixed coordinates was used to estimate the ZWD and horizontal gradients. The method of blockwise sequential least squares was utilized to eliminate the receiver clock biases and compute the I2 impact on the ZWDs. The I2 delays on each GNSS satellite observations were calculated with the CODE final TEC map and the 12th generation of the international geomagnetic reference field (IGRF-12) model. The statistical results with the actual observation geometry show that the I2 delays can reach over 10 mm during the daytime, and the corresponding impact on the estimated ZWD can reach up to several millimeters. At station HKWS, the maximum I2 impact with GPS only reaches up to 3.1 mm and is still 2.4 mm when both GPS and BDS observations are used. The simulated I2 impact on the ZWD could reach several millimeters, even though the TEC and geomagnetic values were calculated from relatively moderate background models. Compared with the 5–10 mm precision of real-time ZWD estimation, the I2 delays must not be ignored, especially during high VTEC periods. Numéro de notice : A2020-082 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-020-0954-8 date de publication en ligne : 04/02/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-020-0954-8 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94651 [article]

Mapping precipitable water vapor time series from Sentinel-1 interferometric SAR / Pedro Mateus in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 58 n° 2 (February 2020)  

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Assessing the quality of ionospheric models through GNSS positioning error: methodology and results / Adria Rovira-Garcia in GPS solutions, vol 24 n° 1 (January 2020)  

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Efficiency of updating the ionospheric models using total electron content at mid- and sub-auroral latitudes / Daria S. Kotova in GPS solutions, vol 24 n° 1 (January 2020)  

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Estimation and representation of regional atmospheric corrections for augmenting real-time single-frequency PPP / Peiyuan Zhou in GPS solutions, vol 24 n° 1 (January 2020)  

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Impact of thermospheric mass density on the orbit prediction of LEO satellites / Changyong He in Space weather, vol 18 n° 1 (January 2020)  

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Reducing convergence time of precise point positioning with ionospheric constraints and receiver differential code bias modeling / Yan Xiang in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n°1 (January 2020)  

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Measuring phase scintillation at different frequencies with conventional GNSS receivers operating at 1 Hz / Viet Khoi Nguyen in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°10 (October 2019)  

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Performance evaluation of real-time global ionospheric maps provided by different IGS analysis centers / Xiaodong Ren in GPS solutions, vol 23 n° 4 (October 2019)  

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A 4D tomographic ionospheric model to support PPP-RTK / German Olivares-Pulido in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n° 9 (September 2019)  

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Consistency and analysis of ionospheric observables obtained from three precise point positioning models / Yan Xiang in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n° 8 (August 2019)  

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