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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 Note générale : bibliographie 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]

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)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 58 n° 2 (February 2020) . - pp 1373 - 1379 Titre : Mapping precipitable water vapor time series from Sentinel-1 interferometric SAR Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Pedro Mateus, Auteur ; João Catalão, Auteur ; Giovanni Nico, Auteur ; Pedro Benevides, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 1373 - 1379 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes descripteurs IGN] Appalaches [Termes descripteurs IGN] cartographie [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes descripteurs IGN] interferométrie différentielle [Termes descripteurs IGN] itération [Termes descripteurs IGN] méthode des moindres carrés [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] optimisation (mathématiques) [Termes descripteurs IGN] phase GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] série temporelle [Termes descripteurs IGN] vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) In this article, a methodology to retrieve the precipitable water vapor (PWV) from a differential interferometric time series is presented. We used external data provided by atmospheric weather models (e.g., ERA-Interim reanalysis) to constrain the initial state and by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to phase ambiguities elimination introduced by phase unwrapping algorithm. An iterative least-square is then used to solve the optimization problem. We applied the presented methodology to two time series of differential PWV maps estimated from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired by the Sentinel-1A, over the southwest part of the Appalachian Mountains (USA). The results were validated using an independent GNSS data set and also compared with atmospheric weather prediction data. The GNSS PWV observations show a strong correlation with the estimated PWV maps with a root-mean-square error less than 1 mm. These results are very encouraging, particularly for the meteorology community, providing crucial information to assimilate into numerical weather models and potentially improve the forecasts. Numéro de notice : A2020-098 Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2946077 date de publication en ligne : 28/10/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2946077 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94672 [article]

Sensitivity of GPS tropospheric estimates to mesoscale convective systems in West Africa / Samuel Nahmani in Atmospheric chemistry and physics, vol 19 n° 14 (July 2019)    

Public [article]  inAtmospheric chemistry and physics > vol 19 n° 14 (July 2019) . - pp 9541 - 9561 Titre : Sensitivity of GPS tropospheric estimates to mesoscale convective systems in West Africa Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Samuel Nahmani , Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Françoise Guichard, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 9541 - 9561 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] Afrique occidentale [Termes descripteurs IGN] analyse de sensibilité [Termes descripteurs IGN] bande C [Termes descripteurs IGN] convection [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GPS [Termes descripteurs IGN] GAMIT [Termes descripteurs IGN] GIPSY-OASIS [Termes descripteurs IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes descripteurs IGN] meso échelle [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] Niger [Termes descripteurs IGN] propagation troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] résidu [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] signal GPS Résumé : (Auteur) This study analyzes the characteristics of GPS tropospheric estimates (zenith wet delays – ZWDs, gradients, and post-fit phase residuals) during the passage of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and evaluates their sensitivity to the research-level GPS data processing strategy implemented. Here, we focus on MCS events observed during the monsoon season of West Africa. This region is particularly well suited for the study of these events due to the high frequency of MCS occurrences in the contrasting climatic environments between the Guinean coast and the Sahel. This contrast is well sampled with data generated by six African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) GPS stations. Tropospheric estimates for a 3-year period (2006–2008), processed with both the GAMIT and GIPSY-OASIS software packages, were analyzed and intercompared. First, the case of a MCS that passed over Niamey, Niger, on 11 August 2006 demonstrates a strong impact of the MCS on GPS estimates and post-fit residuals when the GPS signals propagate through the convective cells as detected on reflectivity maps from the MIT C-band Doppler radar. The estimates are also capable of detecting changes in the structure and dynamics of the MCS. However, the sensitivity is different depending on the tropospheric modeling approach adopted in the software. With GIPSY-OASIS, the high temporal sampling (5 min) of ZWDs and gradients is well suited for detecting the small-scale, short-lived, convective cells, while the post-fit residuals remain quite small. With GAMIT, the lower temporal sampling of the estimated parameters (hourly for ZWDs and daily for gradients) is not sufficient to capture the rapid delay variations associated with the passage of the MCS, but the post-fit phase residuals clearly reflect the presence of a strong refractivity anomaly. The results are generalized with a composite analysis of 414 MCS events observed over the 3-year period at the six GPS stations with the GIPSY-OASIS estimates. A systematic peak is found in the ZWDs coincident with the cold pool crossing time associated with the MCSs. The tropospheric gradients reflect the path of the MCS propagation (generally from east to west). This study concludes that ZWDs, gradients, and post-fit phase residuals provide relevant and complementary information on MCSs passing over or in the vicinity of a GPS station. Numéro de notice : A2019-572 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/acp-19-9541-2019 date de publication en ligne : 29/07/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-9541-2019 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94444 [article]

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Improving the modeling of the atmospheric delay in the data analysis of the Intensive VLBI sessions and the impact on the UT1 estimates / Tobias Nilsson in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 7 (July 2017)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 91 n° 7 (July 2017) . - pp 857 - 866 Titre : Improving the modeling of the atmospheric delay in the data analysis of the Intensive VLBI sessions and the impact on the UT1 estimates Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Tobias Nilsson, Auteur ; Benedikt Soja, Auteur ; Kyriakos Balidakis, Auteur ; Maria Karbon, Auteur ; Robert Heinkelmann, Auteur ; Zhiguo Deng, Auteur ; Harald Schuh, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 857 - 866 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] analyse de données [Termes descripteurs IGN] filtre de Kalman [Termes descripteurs IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes descripteurs IGN] interférométrie à très grande base [Termes descripteurs IGN] longueur du jour [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] temps universel Résumé : (Auteur) The very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) Intensive sessions are typically 1-h and single-baseline VLBI sessions, specifically designed to yield low-latency estimates of UT1-UTC. In this work, we investigate what accuracy is obtained from these sessions and how it can be improved. In particular, we study the modeling of the troposphere in the data analysis. The impact of including external information on the zenith wet delays (ZWD) and tropospheric gradients from GPS or numerical weather prediction models is studied. Additionally, we test estimating tropospheric gradients in the data analysis, which is normally not done. To evaluate the results, we compared the UT1-UTC values from the Intensives to those from simultaneous 24-h VLBI session. Furthermore, we calculated length of day (LOD) estimates using the UT1-UTC values from consecutive Intensives and compared these to the LOD estimated by GPS. We find that there is not much benefit in using external ZWD; however, including external information on the gradients improves the agreement with the reference data. If gradients are estimated in the data analysis, and appropriate constraints are applied, the WRMS difference w.r.t. UT1-UTC from 24-h sessions is reduced by 5% and the WRMS difference w.r.t. the LOD from GPS by up to 12%. The best agreement between Intensives and the reference time series is obtained when using both external gradients from GPS and additionally estimating gradients in the data analysis. Numéro de notice : A2017-298 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern En ligne : http://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-016-0985-7 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=85333 [article]

Robust GPS/BDS/INS tightly coupled integration with atmospheric constraints for long-range kinematic positioning / Houzeng Han in GPS solutions, vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017) . - pp 1285 – 1299 Titre : Robust GPS/BDS/INS tightly coupled integration with atmospheric constraints for long-range kinematic positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Houzeng Han, Auteur ; Jian Wang, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : pp 1285 – 1299 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] BDS-INS [Termes descripteurs IGN] GPS-INS [Termes descripteurs IGN] incertitude de position [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement cinématique [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement inertiel [Termes descripteurs IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Termes descripteurs IGN] signal BeiDou [Termes descripteurs IGN] signal GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] système à couplage étroit Résumé : (auteur) The combination of new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) has brought great benefits to reliable positioning and ambiguity resolution (AR), especially in restricted environments. However, kinematic positioning over long ranges is still a challenge due to the presence of significant atmospheric uncertainties, which contaminates the AR process. We present a tightly coupled strategy to integrate GNSS and inertial navigation system (INS) by adding ionospheric and tropospheric delay parameters and extending the stepwise AR by applying the partial ambiguity resolution (PAR) strategy. With the aid of INS predictions, the instantaneous AR can be achieved with the proposed atmospheric prediction model, along with a dual-frequency constraint ambiguity validation test. To remove the faults in both dynamic model and measurement model, a robust innovation filtering algorithm is proposed. A field vehicular test was conducted to validate the positioning performance of the proposed algorithm over long ranges. The results show that a reliable positioning solution is obtainable for the global positioning system (GPS)/BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS)/INS integration system with baseline larger than 130 km. The average number of fixable ambiguities reaches 14.43 by applying PAR. In addition, the fixing ratio of having fixed more than three ambiguities reaches 98.57%. The results also indicate that the robust innovation filtering can efficiently detect the discrepancies in the filter. Numéro de notice : A2017-446 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-017-0612-y En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-017-0612-y Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=86367 [article]

Tropospheric refractivity and zenith path delays from least-squares collocation of meteorological and GNSS data / Karina Wilgan in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 2 (February 2017)  

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Quantitative assessment of meteorological and tropospheric Zenith Hydrostatic Delay models / Di Zhang in Advances in space research, vol 58 n° 6 (September 2016)  

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A high-quality reprocessed ground-based GPS dataset for atmospheric process studies, radiosonde and model evaluation, and reanalysis of HyMeX Special Observing Period / Olivier Bock in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol 142 n° S1 (August 2016)  

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Comparative analysis of real-time precise point positioning zenith total delay estimates / F.A. Ahmed in GPS solutions, vol 20 n° 2 (April 2016)  

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Correction troposphérique des interférogrammes issus d’images radar par mesures GNSS et modèle global d’atmosphère / Vincent Dubreuil (2016)

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Modeling and sensing the vertical structure of the atmospheric path delay by microwave radiometry to correct SAR interferograms / Patrizia Basili in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 52 n° 2 (February 2014)  

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Modélisation de la propagation troposphérique des signaux de positionnement par satellites : un tour d'horizon / Camille Desjardins (2014) 

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Are numerical weather model outputs helpful to reduce tropospheric delay signals in InSAR data? / Youhei Kinoshita in Journal of geodesy, vol 87 n° 3 (March 2013)  

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Experimental study on the atmospheric delay based on GPS, SAR Interferometry, and numerical weather model data / P. Mateus in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 51 n° 1 Tome 1 (January 2013)  

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Zenith delay correction with GPT2w / Grégory Pain (2013) 

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