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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)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 24 n° 1 (January 2020) Titre : Estimation and representation of regional atmospheric corrections for augmenting real-time single-frequency PPP Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Peiyuan Zhou, Auteur ; Jin Wang, Auteur ; Zhixi Nie, Auteur ; Yang Gao, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Navigation et positionnement [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction atmosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction ionosphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] décalage d'horloge [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes descripteurs IGN] Quasi-Zenith Satellite System [Termes descripteurs IGN] récepteur monofréquence [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard ionosphèrique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] satellite GPS [Termes descripteurs IGN] station GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] temps réel [Termes descripteurs IGN] teneur totale en électrons Résumé : (Auteur) Real-time single-frequency precise point positioning (PPP) can be significantly augmented by applying high-quality atmospheric corrections. In previous work, the satellite-and-station-specific slant total electron content (STEC) ionospheric corrections, derived from a regional reference network, are commonly used to augment single-frequency PPP for improving positioning accuracy and faster convergence. However, since the users are required to interpolate STEC ionospheric corrections from nearby reference stations, either duplex communication links should be established or all corrections of the reference network must be retrieved, which makes it inefficient to provide augmentation services to many users. Moreover, the regional tropospheric corrections are generally neglected in augmenting real-time single-frequency PPP. In this study, we present a method to estimate and represent tropospheric and ionospheric corrections from a regional reference network, which can be efficiently disseminated to users through a simplex communication link. First, the uncombined dual-frequency PPP, with external ionospheric constraints derived from international GNSS service predicted global ionospheric map, is used for estimating atmospheric delays with observations from a regional GNSS reference network. Then, the atmospheric delays are properly represented to facilitate real-time transmission by applying a polynomial model for the representation of zenith wet tropospheric corrections, and satellite-specific STEC maps for representing the slant ionospheric corrections. The above results in only simple communication links required to retrieve the regional atmospheric corrections for real-time single-frequency PPP augmentation. Observations from a regional network of 30 GNSS reference stations with inter-station distances of about 70 km during a 1-week-long period, including both quiet and active geomagnetic conditions, are used for generating the regional atmospheric corrections. The results indicate that the average root-mean-square errors of the obtained regional tropospheric and ionospheric corrections are better than 0.01 and 0.05 m when compared with those derived from dual-frequency uncombined PPP, respectively. The positioning accuracy of the single-frequency PPP augmented with regional atmospheric corrections is at 0.141 m horizontally and 0.206 m vertically under a 95% confidence level, a significant improvement compared to single-frequency PPP without atmospheric augmentation. The convergence time is also significantly reduced with 70.4% of the positioning sessions achieving instantaneous 3D convergence. Numéro de notice : A2020-023 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-019-0920-5 date de publication en ligne : 13/11/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-019-0920-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94466 [article]

Parallel computation of regional CORS network corrections based on ionospheric-free PPP / Linyang Li in GPS solutions, vol 23 n° 3 (July 2019)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 23 n° 3 (July 2019) Titre : Parallel computation of regional CORS network corrections based on ionospheric-free PPP Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Linyang Li, Auteur ; Zhiping Lu, Auteur ; Zhengsheng Chen, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Navigation et positionnement [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] fractional cycle bias [Termes descripteurs IGN] Global Navigation Satellite System [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] station de référence Résumé : (auteur) Global navigation satellite system real-time processing requires low latency, high timeliness, and high computational efficiency. A typical application is providing corrections using data from a regional Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network. Usually the wide-lane and narrow-lane fractional cycle biases (FCBs) are determined at the server and broadcast to users to fix undifferenced ambiguity. Also, a tropospheric model is established at the server and broadcast to users to obtain accurate and reliable a priori zenith total delays for precise point positioning (PPP) using the ionospheric-free (IF) observation combination. Currently, serial methods are typically applied, i.e., all reference stations are involved in estimating the wide-lane and narrow-lane FCBs and establishing a regional tropospheric delay model. To improve the efficiency and shorten the latency, we develop a parallel computation method for regional CORS network corrections based on IF PPP by adopting a multicore parallel computing technology task parallel library, wherein parallel computations involving the FCBs, tropospheric delays, and tropospheric model are successively performed based on data parallelism, in which the same operation is performed concurrently on elements in an array, and task parallelism, which refers to one or more independent tasks running concurrently. Data covering four seasons from the Hong Kong and southwestern America CORS networks are utilized in the experiment. The single differenced FCBs between satellites are determined within each full pass, and a tropospheric model with an internal accuracy better than 1.4 cm and an external accuracy better than 1.6 cm is derived at the server. With the parallel implementation, the speedup ratios of FCB estimation and tropospheric modeling are 1.79, 3.15, 5.59, and 9.69 times higher for dual-core, quad-core, octa-core, and hexadeca-core platforms, respectively, than for a single-core platform. Numéro de notice : A2019-196 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-019-0864-9 date de publication en ligne : 13/05/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-019-0864-9 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92650 [article]

High-resolution models of tropospheric delays and refractivity based on GNSS and numerical weather prediction data for alpine regions in Switzerland / Karina Wilgan in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°6 (June 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°6 (June 2019) . - pp 819 - 835 Titre : High-resolution models of tropospheric delays and refractivity based on GNSS and numerical weather prediction data for alpine regions in Switzerland Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Karina Wilgan, Auteur ; Alain Geiger, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 819 - 835 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] Alpes [Termes descripteurs IGN] collocation par moindres carrés [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données météorologiques [Termes descripteurs IGN] interféromètrie par radar à antenne synthétique [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle mathématique [Termes descripteurs IGN] précision de l'estimation [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] réfraction [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] Suisse Résumé : (auteur) The tropospheric delay of a microwave signal affects all space geodetic techniques. One possibility of modeling the delay is by introducing tropospheric models from external data sources. In this study, we present high-resolution models of tropospheric total refractivity and zenith total delay (ZTD) for the alpine area in Switzerland. The troposphere models are based on different combinations of data sources, including numerical weather prediction (NWP) model COSMO-1 with high spatial resolution of 1.1 km × 1.1 km, GNSS data from permanent geodetic stations and GPS L1-only data from low-cost permanent stations. The tropospheric parameters are interpolated to the arbitrary locations by the least-squares collocation method using the in-house developed software package COMEDIE (Collocation of Meteorological Data for Interpretation and Estimation of Tropospheric Pathdelays). The first goal of this study is to validate the obtained models with the reference radiosonde and GNSS data to show the improvement w.r.t. the previous studies that used lower resolution input data. In case of total refractivity, the profiles reconstructed from COSMO-1 model show the best agreement with the reference radiosonde measurements, with an average bias of 1.1 ppm (0.6% of the total refractivity value along a vertical profile) and standard deviation of 2.6 ppm (1.6%) averaged from the whole profile. The radiosondes are assimilated into COSMO-1 model; thus, a high correlation is expected, and this comparison is not independent. In case of ZTD, the GNSS-based model shows the highest agreement with the reference GNSS data, with an average bias of 0.2 mm (0.01%) and standard deviation of 4.3 mm (0.2%). For COSMO-based model, the agreement is also very high, especially compared to our previous studies with lower resolution NWPs. The average bias is equal to − 2.5 mm (0.1%) with standard deviation of 9.2 mm (0.5%). The second goal of this study is to test the feasibility of calculating high-resolution troposphere models over a limited area from coarser data sets. We calculate the ZTD models with spatial resolution of 20 m for a test area in Matter Valley. We include the information from the low-cost GPS stations (X-Sense), to also assess the performance and future usability of such stations. We validate the models based on three data sources w.r.t. the reference GNSS data. For the station located inside the area of the study, the models have an agreement of few mm with the reference data. For stations located further away from the study area, the agreement for X-Sense is smaller, but the standard deviations of residuals are still below 15 mm. We consider also another factor of evaluating the high-resolution models, i.e., spatial variability of the data. For designing a GNSS network, also for the tropospheric estimates, the height variability of the network may be as important as the horizontal distribution. The GNSS-based models are built from the coarsest network; thus, their variability is the lowest. The variability of X-Sense-based stations is the highest; thus, such data may be suitable for building troposphere models for very high-resolution applications. Numéro de notice : A2019-350 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1203-6 date de publication en ligne : 01/10/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1203-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=93394 [article]

Undifferenced zenith tropospheric modeling and its application in fast ambiguity recovery for long-range network RTK reference stations / Dezhong Chen in GPS solutions, vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019) Titre : Undifferenced zenith tropospheric modeling and its application in fast ambiguity recovery for long-range network RTK reference stations Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Dezhong Chen, Auteur ; Shirong Ye, Auteur ; Caijun Xu, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel [Termes descripteurs IGN] propagation troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] résidu [Termes descripteurs IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Termes descripteurs IGN] station de référence [Termes descripteurs IGN] station permanente Résumé : (Auteur) A large number of continuously operating reference station (CORS) networks have been established around the world to support various high-precision navigation and positioning applications. However, the presence of significant tropospheric delays makes rapid ambiguity recovery for long inter-station baselines of network real-time kinematic (RTK) systems a major challenge. Since tropospheric delays are strongly temporally correlated over short periods, we propose an undifferenced (UD) zenith tropospheric prediction model to effectively correct tropospheric errors on the subsequent epoch measurements. Using 2-h sessions of the independent baselines in a CORS network, the ambiguities are easily and reliably resolved with the conventional ionospheric-free combination method. The derived double-differenced (DD), ionospheric-free residuals are then converted to UD residuals for each satellite and all stations. The UD residuals and the corresponding wet coefficients of each satellite are used to construct the zenith tropospheric model. The model is reconstructed every 5 min for each station. The slant tropospheric errors of observations within this period can be predicted using the established models. Seven independent baselines with an average length of 97 km are used to test the ambiguity recovery performance of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed tropospheric prediction model can efficiently reduce the effects of slant tropospheric errors and improve the float solution of ambiguities. The average initialization time with the proposed method is less than 111.5 s, which is a 45% improvement with respect to the conventional approach. The proposed method was shown to be effective for fast ambiguity recovery of long-range baselines between reference stations. Numéro de notice : A2019-051 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0815-x date de publication en ligne : 02/01/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0815-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92078 [article]

A two-stage tropospheric correction model combining data from GNSS and numerical weather model / Jan Douša in GPS solutions, vol 22 n° 3 (July 2018)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 22 n° 3 (July 2018) Titre : A two-stage tropospheric correction model combining data from GNSS and numerical weather model Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jan Douša, Auteur ; Michal Elias, Auteur ; Pavel Vaclavovic, Auteur ; Krystof Eben, Auteur ; Pavel Krč, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données météorologiques [Termes descripteurs IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard hydrostatique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] station permanente Résumé : (Auteur) We have developed a new concept for providing tropospheric augmentation corrections. The two-stage correction model combines data from a Numerical Weather Model (NWM) and precise ZTDs estimated from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) permanent stations in regional networks. The first-stage correction is generated using the background NWM forecast only. The second-stage correction results from an optimal combination of the background model data and GNSS (near) real-time tropospheric products. The optimum correction is achieved when using NWM for the hydrostatic delay modeling and for vertical scaling, while GNSS products are used for correcting the non-hydrostatic delay. The method is assessed in several variants including study of the combination of NWM and GNSS data, spatial densification of the original NWM grid, and GNSS ZTD densification using tropospheric linear horizontal gradients. The first-stage correction can be characterized by overall accuracy of about 10 mm for ZTD (1-sigma). The second-stage correction supported with GNSS tropospheric products improved the first-stage correction by a factor of 2–4 in terms of the ZTD accuracy and by a factor of 2.5 in terms of its spatio-temporal stability. Numéro de notice : A2018-373 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0742-x date de publication en ligne : 29/05/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0742-x Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=90767 [article]

A new ZTD model based on permanent ground-based GNSS-ZTD data / M. Ding in Survey review, vol 48 n° 351 (October 2016)  

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A new computerized ionosphere tomography model using the mapping function and an application to the study of seismic-ionosphere disturbance / Jian Kong in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 8 (August 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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Multi-GNSS meteorology: real-time retrieving of atmospheric water vapor from BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, and GPS observations / Xingxing Li in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 53 n° 12 (December 2015)

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Atmospheric water vapour sensing by means of differntial absorption spectrometry using solar and lunar radiation / Stefan Walter Münch (2014)  

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Blind tropospheric model for Austria / Paoline Prevost (2014) 

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DORIS and GPS monitoring of the Gavdos calibration site in Crete / Pascal Willis in Advances in space research, vol 51 n° 8 (April 2013)  

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Zenith delay correction with GPT2w / Grégory Pain (2013) 

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IDS contribution to ITRF2008 / Jean-Jacques Valette in Advances in space research, vol 46 n° 12 (15/12/2010)  

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Estimation des déplacements causés par la surchage océanique dans l'ouest de la France à l'aide des réseaux GPS permanents / François Fund in XYZ, n° 124 (septembre - novembre 2010)

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