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Validation of regional and global ionosphere maps from GNSS measurements versus IRI2016 during different magnetic activity / Ahmed Sedeek in Journal of applied geodesy, vol 16 n° 3 (July 2022)  

Public [article]  inJournal of applied geodesy > vol 16 n° 3 (July 2022) . - pp 229 - 240 Titre : Validation of regional and global ionosphere maps from GNSS measurements versus IRI2016 during different magnetic activity Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ahmed Sedeek, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 229 - 240 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Afrique du nord [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] harmonique sphérique [Termes IGN] International Reference Ionosphere [Termes IGN] interpolation [Termes IGN] Matlab [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] station GNSS [Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) This manuscript explores the divergence of the Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) estimated from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements using global, regional, and International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) models over low to high latitude regions during various magnetic activity. The VTEC is estimated using a territorial network consisting of 7 GNSS stations in Egypt and 10 GNSS stations from the International GNSS Service (IGS) Global network. The impact of magnetic activity on VTEC is investigated. Due to the deficiency of IGS receivers in north Africa and the shortage of GNSS measurements, an extra high interpolation is done to cover the deficit of data over North Africa. A MATLAB code was created to produce VTEC maps for Egypt utilizing a territorial network contrasted with global maps of VTEC, which are delivered by the Center for Orbit Determination in Europe (CODE). Thus we can have genuine VTEC maps estimated from actual GNSS measurements over any region of North Africa. A Spherical Harmonics Expansion (SHE) equation was modelled using MATLAB and called Local VTEC Model (LVTECM) to estimate VTEC values using observations of dual-frequency GNSS receivers. The VTEC calculated from GNSS measurement using LVTECM is compared with CODE VTEC results and IRI-2016 VTEC model results. The analysis of outcomes demonstrates a good convergence between VTEC from CODE and estimated from LVTECM. A strong correlation between LVTECM and CODE reaches about 96 % and 92 % in high and low magnetic activity, respectively. The most extreme contrasts are found to be 2.5 TECu and 1.3 TECu at high and low magnetic activity, respectively. The maximum discrepancies between LVTECM and IRI-2016 are 9.7 TECu and 2.3 TECu at a high and low magnetic activity. Variation in VTEC due to magnetic activity ranges from 1–5 TECu in moderate magnetic activity. The estimated VTEC from the regional network shows a 95 % correlation between the estimated VTEC from LVTECM and CODE with a maximum difference of 5.9 TECu. Numéro de notice : A2022-495 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1515/jag-2021-0046 Date de publication en ligne : 09/02/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1515/jag-2021-0046 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100985 [article]

The RTM harmonic correction revisited / R. Klees in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 6 (June 2022)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 96 n° 6 (June 2022) . - n° 39 Titre : The RTM harmonic correction revisited Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : R. Klees, Auteur ; Kurt Seitz, Auteur ; D.C. Slobbe, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 39 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes IGN] analyse harmonique [Termes IGN] anomalie de pesanteur [Termes IGN] Auvergne [Termes IGN] correction des altitudes [Termes IGN] géoïde local [Termes IGN] harmonique sphérique [Termes IGN] hauteur ellipsoïdale [Termes IGN] méthode des moindres carrés [Termes IGN] modèle de géopotentiel local [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de terrain [Termes IGN] Norvège [Termes IGN] quasi-géoïde [Termes IGN] résidu Résumé : (auteur) In this paper, we derive improved expressions for the harmonic correction to gravity and, for the first time, expressions for the harmonic correction to potential and height anomaly. They need to be applied at stations buried inside the masses to transform internal values into harmonically downward continued values, which are then input to local quasi-geoid modelling using least-squares collocation or least-squares techniques in combination with the remove-compute-restore approach. Harmonic corrections to potential and height anomaly were assumed to be negligible so far resulting in yet unknown quasi-geoid model errors. The improved expressions for the harmonic correction to gravity, and the new expressions for the harmonic correction to potential and height anomaly are used to quantify the approximation errors of the commonly used harmonic correction to gravity and to quantify the magnitude of the harmonic correction to potential and height anomaly. This is done for two test areas with different topographic regimes. One comprises parts of Norway and the North Atlantic where the presence of deep, long, and narrow fjords suggest extreme values for the harmonic correction to potential and height anomaly and corresponding large errors of the commonly used approximation of the harmonic correction to gravity. The other one is located in the Auvergne test area with a moderate topography comprising both flat and hilly areas and therefore may be representative for many areas around the world. For both test areas, two RTM surfaces with different smoothness are computed simulating the use of a medium-resolution and an ultra-high-resolution reference gravity field, respectively. We show that the errors of the commonly used harmonic correction to gravity may be as large as the harmonic correction itself and attain peak values in areas of strong topographic variations of about 100 mGal. Moreover, we show that this correction may introduce long-wavelength biases in the computed quasi-geoid model. Furthermore, we show that the harmonic correction to height anomaly can attain values on the order of a decimetre at some points. Overall, however, the harmonic correction to height anomaly needs to be applied only in areas of strong topographic variations. In flat or hilly areas, it is mostly smaller than one centimetre. Finally, we show that the harmonic corrections increase with increasing smoothness of the RTM surface, which suggests to use a RTM surface with a spatial resolution comparable to the finest scales which can be resolved by the data rather than depending on the resolution of the global geopotential model used to reduce the data. Numéro de notice : A2022-414 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01625-w Date de publication en ligne : 30/05/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01625-w Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100769 [article]

Empirical comparison between stochastic and deterministic modifiers over the French Auvergne geoid computation test-bed / Ropesh Goyal in Survey review, vol 54 n° 382 (January 2022)  

Public [article]  inSurvey review > vol 54 n° 382 (January 2022) . - pp 57 - 69 Titre : Empirical comparison between stochastic and deterministic modifiers over the French Auvergne geoid computation test-bed Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ropesh Goyal, Auteur ; Jonas Ågren, Auteur ; Will E. Featherstone, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 57 - 69 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] Auvergne [Termes IGN] géoïde local [Termes IGN] harmonique sphérique [Termes IGN] méthode déterministe [Termes IGN] NGF-IGN69 [Termes IGN] nivellement par GPS [Termes IGN] processus stochastique [Termes IGN] quasi-géoïde Résumé : (auteur) Since 2006, several different groups have computed geoid and/or quasigeoid (quasi/geoid) models for the Auvergne test area in central France using various approaches. In this contribution, we compute and compare quasigeoid models for Auvergne using Curtin University of Technology’s and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology’s approaches. These approaches differ in many ways, such as their treatment of the input data, choice of type of spherical harmonic model (combined or satellite-only), form and sequence of correction terms applied, and different modified Stokes’s kernels (deterministic or stochastic). We have also compared our results with most of the previously reported studies over Auvergne in order to seek any improvements with respect to time [exceptions are when different subsets of data have been used]. All studies considered here compare the computed quasigeoid models with the same 75 GPS-levelling heights over Auvergne. The standard deviation for almost all of the computations (without any fitting) is of the order of 30–40 mm, so there is not yet any clear indication whether any approach is necessarily better than any other nor improving over time. We also recommend more standardisation on the presentation of quasi/geoid comparisons with GPS-levelling data so that results from different approaches over the same areas can be compared more objectively. Numéro de notice : A2022-111 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1080/00396265.2021.1871821 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/00396265.2021.1871821 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99628 [article]

Tropospheric and range biases in Satellite Laser Ranging / Mateusz Drożdżewski in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 9 (September 2021)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 95 n° 9 (September 2021) . - n° 100 Titre : Tropospheric and range biases in Satellite Laser Ranging Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Mateusz Drożdżewski, Auteur ; Krzysztof Sosnica, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 100 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre [Termes IGN] correction troposphérique [Termes IGN] données Lageos [Termes IGN] données TLS (télémétrie) [Termes IGN] erreur systématique [Termes IGN] géocentre [Termes IGN] harmonique sphérique [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] télémétrie laser sur satellite Résumé : (auteur) The Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) technique provides very accurate distance measurements to artificial Earth satellites. SLR is employed for the realization of the origin and the scale of the terrestrial reference frame. Despite the high precision, SLR observations can be affected by various systematic errors. So far, range biases were used to account for systematic measurement errors and mismodeling effects in SLR. Range biases are constant for all elevation angles and independent of the measured distance to a satellite. Recently, intensity-dependent biases for single-photon SLR detectors and offsets of barometer readings and meteorological devices were reported for some SLR stations. In this paper, we study the possibility of the direct estimation of tropospheric biases from SLR observations to LAGEOS satellites. We discuss the correlations between the station heights, range biases, tropospheric biases, and their impact on the repeatability of station coordinates, geocenter motion, and the global scale of the reference frame. We found that the solution with the estimation of tropospheric biases provides more stable station coordinates than the solution with the estimation of range biases. From the common estimation of range and tropospheric biases, we found that most of the systematic effects at SLR stations are better absorbed by elevation-dependent tropospheric biases than range biases which overestimate the total bias effect. The estimation of tropospheric biases changes the SLR-derived global scale by 0.3 mm and the geocenter coordinates by 1 mm for the Z component, causing thus an offset in the realization of the reference frame origin. Estimation of range biases introduces an offset in some SLR-derived low-degree spherical harmonics of the Earth’s gravity field. Therefore, considering elevation-dependent tropospheric and intensity biases is essential for deriving high-accuracy geodetic parameters. Numéro de notice : A2021-621 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-021-01554-0 Date de publication en ligne : 21/08/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01554-0 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98237 [article]

Gravitational field modelling near irregularly shaped bodies using spherical harmonics: a case study for the asteroid (101955) Bennu / Blažej Bucha in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 5 (May 2021)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 95 n° 5 (May 2021) . - n° 56 Titre : Gravitational field modelling near irregularly shaped bodies using spherical harmonics: a case study for the asteroid (101955) Bennu Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Blažej Bucha, Auteur ; Fernando Sanso, Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 56 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes IGN] astéroïde [Termes IGN] champ de gravitation [Termes IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre [Termes IGN] convergence [Termes IGN] harmonique sphérique [Termes IGN] intégrale de Newton Résumé : (auteur) We apply three spherical-harmonic-based techniques to deliver external gravitational field models of the asteroid (101955) Bennu within its circumscribing sphere. This region is known to be peculiar for external spherical harmonic expansions, because it may lead to a divergent series. The studied approaches are (i) spectral gravity forward modelling via external spherical harmonics, (ii) the least-squares estimation from surface gravitational data using external spherical harmonics and (iii) the combination of internal and external series expansions. While the first method diverges beyond any reasonable doubts, we show that the other two methods may ensure relative accuracy from ∼10−6 to 10−8 in the vicinity of Bennu. This is possible even with the second method, despite the fact that it relies on a single series of external spherical harmonics. Our main motivation was to study conceptual differences between spherical harmonic coefficients from satellite data (analogy to the first method) and from surface gravitational data (the second method). Such coefficients are available through the popular spherical-harmonic-based models of the Earth’s gravitational field and often are combined together. We show that the coefficients from terrestrial data may lead to a divergence effect of partial sums, though excellent accuracy can be achieved when such model is used in full. Under (presently) extreme but realistic conditions, the divergence effect of partial sums may affect many near-surface geoscientific applications, such as the geoid/quasigeoid computation or residual terrain modelling. Computer codes (Fortran, MATLAB) and data produced within the study are made freely available at http://edisk.cvt.stuba.sk/~xbuchab/. Numéro de notice : A2021-347 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-021-01493-w Date de publication en ligne : 22/04/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01493-w Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97591 [article]

ON GLONASS pseudo-range inter-frequency bias solution with ionospheric delay modeling and the undifferenced uncombined PPP / Zheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 3 (March 2021)  

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A hybrid approach for recovering high-resolution temporal gravity fields from satellite laser ranging / Anno Löcher in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 1 (January 2021)  

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Self-consistent determination of the Earth’s GM, geocenter motion and figure axis orientation / Alexandre Couhert in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n° 12 (December 2020)  

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Improved arctic ocean mass variability inferred from time-variable gravity with constraints and dual leakage correction / Dapeng Mu in Marine geodesy, Vol 43 n° 3 (May 2020)  

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A line integral approach for the computation of the potential harmonic coefficients of a constant density polyhedron / Olivier Jamet in Journal of geodesy, Vol 94 n°3 (March 2020)  

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ITRF2014, Earth figure changes, and geocenter velocity: Implications for GIA and recent ice melting / Laurent Métivier in Journal of geophysical research : Solid Earth, vol 125 n° 2 (February 2020)  

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Data-adaptive spatio-temporal filtering of GRACE data / Paoline Prevost in Geophysical journal international, vol 219 n° 3 (December 2019)  

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Mass variation observing system by high low inter-satellite links (MOBILE) : a new concept for sustained observation of mass transport from space / Roland Pail in Journal of geodetic science, vol 9 n° 1 (January 2019)  

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Toward a global horizontal and vertical elastic load deformation model derived from GRACE and GNSS station position time series / Kristel Chanard in Journal of geophysical research : Solid Earth, vol 123 n° 4 (April 2018)  

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Transformation between surface spherical harmonic expansion of arbitrary high degree and order and double Fourier series on sphere / Toshio Fukushima in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 2 (February 2018)  

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