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An accurate train positioning method using tightly-coupled GPS + BDS PPP/IMU strategy / Wei Jiang in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022) . - n° 67 Titre : An accurate train positioning method using tightly-coupled GPS + BDS PPP/IMU strategy Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Wei Jiang, Auteur ; Mengyang Liu, Auteur ; Baigen Cai, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 67 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] ambiguïté entière [Termes IGN] Chine [Termes IGN] filtre de Kalman [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] positionnement inertiel [Termes IGN] positionnement par BeiDou [Termes IGN] positionnement par GPS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] signal GPS [Termes IGN] simple différence [Termes IGN] train Résumé : (auteur) A new GNSS/IMU tightly coupled positioning system is introduced to train positioning. To fulfil a train control system’s aim of reducing the need to install trackside equipment, the GNSS precise point positioning (PPP) method is applied in place of the conventional differential GNSS method. As the railway environment has the character of long operational mileage and complex GNSS measurement conditions, the GPS and BDS constellations are combined with measurement processing to improve the system’s continuity and stability. Ultra-rapid GNSS orbit and clock product is used for real-time PPP. The GNSS-PPP and IMU are tightly coupled using an Extended Kalman filter with single-differenced ionospheric-free GPS + BDS carrier phase and pseudorange observations. The carrier phase ambiguities are estimated as “float” values every epoch to reduce the impact of GNSS signal loss-of-lock and cycle slips. A train experiment was conducted on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to evaluate system performance. The results show that the proposed system has a better performance than the conventional methods, including GPS + BDS PPP, LC GPS + BDS PPP/IMU and TC GPS PPP/IMU, with 52.1%, 49.4% and 52.1%, respectively. The tightly-coupled GPS + BDS PPP/IMU system under conditions of partly blocked GNSS coverage was evaluated to evaluate the system's continuity. It was confirmed that the proposed system had more stable positioning results and higher positioning accuracy. Numéro de notice : A2022-361 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01250-2 Date de publication en ligne : 08/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01250-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100580 [article]

Global forecasting of ionospheric vertical total electron contents via ConvLSTM with spectrum analysis / Jinpei Chen in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022) . - n° 69 Titre : Global forecasting of ionospheric vertical total electron contents via ConvLSTM with spectrum analysis Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jinpei Chen, Auteur ; Nan Zhi, Auteur ; Haofan Liao, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 69 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] analyse diachronique [Termes IGN] analyse spectrale [Termes IGN] apprentissage profond [Termes IGN] carte ionosphérique mondiale [Termes IGN] classification par réseau neuronal convolutif [Termes IGN] correction ionosphérique [Termes IGN] modèle dynamique [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] temps de convergence [Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) The widely used GNSS correction services for high precision positioning take advantage of accurate real-time TEC forecasting based on vertical total electron content (VTEC) maps. The methods for modeling and forecasting are mainly based on overly simplified assumptions, which in principle cannot reflect the real situations due to limitations of the mathematical formulations. Therefore, these methods cannot comprehensively capture the features of ionospheric TEC in spatial–temporal series. To overcome the problems caused by such assumptions, we combine ConvLSTM (convolutional long short-term memory) with spectrum analysis. The method allows the extraction of high-resolution spatial–temporal patterns of the ionospheric VTEC maps and accelerates the convergence time of neural networks. Extensive experiments have been carried out for short- and long-term forecasting and demonstrated that the performance of our method is better than other state-of-the-art models developed for various time series analysis methods. Based on the data from global ionospheric maps (GIMs) products, the results show that the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of global VTEC forecasting by our method substantially improves for two hours intervals over the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 compared to existing methods, specifically, 20–50% reduction on 1 or 2 h forecasting in terms of RMSE. In addition, the method is sufficient to support real-time forecasting since it takes less than one second to output global forecasting solutions. With these properties, we can facilitate real-time and highly accurate ionosphere correction services beneficial to numerous GNSS correct services and positioning terminals. Numéro de notice : A2022-378 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01253-z Date de publication en ligne : 13/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01253-z Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100638 [article]

Multi-frequency phase-only PPP-RTK model applied to BeiDou data / Pengyu Hou in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022) . - n° 76 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 multiple Résumé : (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 [article]

Outliers and uncertainties in GNSS ZTD estimates from double-difference processing and precise point positioning / Katarzyna Stępniak in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 3 (July 2022) . - n° 74 Titre : Outliers and uncertainties in GNSS ZTD estimates from double-difference processing and precise point positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Katarzyna Stępniak, Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur ; Pierre Bosser , Auteur ; Pawel Wielgosz, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Projets : VEGAN / Bock, Olivier Article en page(s) : n° 74 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] double différence [Termes IGN] ERA5 [Termes IGN] incertitude des données [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] valeur aberrante [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (auteur) Double-difference (DD) analysis and precise point positioning (PPP) are two widely used processing approaches to analyze ground-based GNSS measurements. We investigate the quality of the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) estimates produced from both processing approaches for a regional network over 1 year and show that DD solutions contain more numerous and larger ZTD outliers. The accuracy of both DD and PPP solutions strongly depends on the data processing procedure and models. We analyze the impact of mapping functions, satellite orbit and clock products and ambiguity resolution (fixed vs. float) on ZTD estimates. The results are assessed from station position repeatability and ZTD differences with respect to the ERA5 reanalysis. As expected, mapping functions have the strongest impact, with VMF1 being more accurate than GMF. Surprisingly, the impact of the ambiguity resolution and satellite products is rather weak in the PPP solution. We speculate that this results from the fact that final satellite products have reached a high level of accuracy and that other error sources now dominate static PPP solutions. A time and frequency analysis reveal unprecedented spurious sub-daily signals in the ZTD time series, which occur at the frequency of the GPS satellite repeat period and its harmonics. This suggests that sub-daily GPS ZTD estimates contain a significant part of the residual modeling errors due to satellite orbits, tidal models, mapping functions and multipath, which still need to be improved. Numéro de notice : A2022-359 Affiliation des auteurs : UMR IPGP-Géod+Ext (2020- ) Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01261-z Date de publication en ligne : 29/04/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01261-z Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100578 [article]

Regional ionospheric corrections for high accuracy GNSS positioning / Tam Dao in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 10 (May-2 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 14 n° 10 (May-2 2022) . - n° 2463 Titre : Regional ionospheric corrections for high accuracy GNSS positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Tam Dao, Auteur ; Ken Harima, Auteur ; Brett Anthony Carter, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 2463 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Australie [Termes IGN] Continuously Operating Reference Station network [Termes IGN] correction ionosphérique [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique Résumé : (auteur) Centimetre-level accurate ionospheric corrections are required for a high accuracy and rapid convergence of Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GNSS positioning solutions. This research aims to evaluate the accuracy of a local/regional ionospheric delay model using a linear interpolation method across Australia. The accuracy of the ionospheric corrections is assessed as a function of both different latitudinal regions and the number and spatial density of GNSS Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORSs). Our research shows that, for a local region of 5° latitude ×10° longitude in mid-latitude regions of Australia (~30° to 40°S) with approximately 15 CORS stations, ionospheric corrections with an accuracy of 5 cm can be obtained. In Victoria and New South Wales, where dense CORS networks exist (nominal spacing of ~100 km), the average ionospheric corrections accuracy can reach 2 cm. For sparse networks (nominal spacing of >200 km) at lower latitudes, the average accuracy of the ionospheric corrections is within the range of 8 to 15 cm; significant variations in the ionospheric errors of some specific satellite observations during certain periods were also found. In some regions such as Central Australia, where there are a limited number of CORSs, this model was impossible to use. On average, centimetre-level accurate ionospheric corrections can be achieved if there are sufficiently dense (i.e., nominal spacing of approximately 200 km) GNSS CORS networks in the region of interest. Based on the current availability of GNSS stations across Australia, we propose a set of 15 regions of different ionospheric delay accuracies with extents of 5° latitude ×10° longitude covering continental Australia. Numéro de notice : A2022-400 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14102463 Date de publication en ligne : 20/05/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14102463 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100703 [article]

Adaptive Kalman filter for real-time precise orbit determination of low earth orbit satellites based on pseudorange and epoch-differenced carrier-phase measurements / Min Li in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 9 (May-1 2022)  

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Characteristics of the BDS-3 multipath effect and mitigation methods using precise point positioning / Ran Lu in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 2 (April 2022)  

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Detection and mitigation of GNSS spoofing via the pseudorange difference between epochs in a multicorrelator receiver / Xiangyong Shang in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 2 (April 2022)  

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Regularized integer least-squares estimation: Tikhonov’s regularization in a weak GNSS model / Zemin Wu in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 4 (April 2022)  

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A search step optimization in an ambiguity function-based GNSS precise positioning / Sławomir Cellmer in Survey review, vol 54 n° 383 (March 2022)  

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Validating a new GNSS-based sea level instrument (CalNaGeo) at Senetosa Cape / Pascal Bonnefond in Marine geodesy, vol 45 n° 2 (March 2022)  

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A method of vision aided GNSS positioning using semantic information in complex urban environment / Rui Zhai in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 4 (February-2 2022)  

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A batch algorithm for GNSS carrier phase cycle slip correction / Brian Breitsch in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 60 n° 2 (February 2022)  

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Best integer equivariant position estimation for multi-GNSS RTK: a multivariate normal and t-distributed performance comparison / Robert Odolinski in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 1 (January 2022)  

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A comprehensive assessment of four-satellite QZSS constellation: navigation signals, broadcast ephemeris, availability, SPP, interoperability with GPS, and ISB against GPS / Xuanping Li in Survey review, vol 54 n° 382 (January 2022)  

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