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Modeling the VLBI delay for Earth satellites / Frédéric Jaron in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°7 (July 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°7 (July 2019) . - pp 953 - 961 Titre : Modeling the VLBI delay for Earth satellites Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Frédéric Jaron, Auteur ; Axel Nothnagel, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 953 - 961 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] E-GRASP [Termes descripteurs IGN] Geodetic Reference Antenna in Space [Termes descripteurs IGN] interférométrie à très grande base [Termes descripteurs IGN] point de liaison (géodésie) [Termes descripteurs IGN] poursuite de satellite [Termes descripteurs IGN] propagation du signal [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] système international de référence céleste Résumé : (auteur) Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of satellites orbiting the Earth and emitting an artificial radio signal have the potential of becoming an important technique for improving the frame ties between celestial and terrestrial reference frames. Modeling the delay of the signal reception at one station with respect to the other station of a baseline is a fundamental step for correlation and parameter estimation. The near-field VLBI delay models developed so far include numerical computation, which may become expensive in terms of computation time. This applies especially when partial derivatives are to be computed, which is the normal case for least squares adjustments. Furthermore, all the models are formulated in the barycentric celestial reference system requiring large numbers. Here we present an analytical expression for the VLBI delay for the special case of satellites orbiting the Earth, observed by ground-based radio telescopes. We analytically solve the light time equation for each signal propagation path from the source to receiver one and to receiver two under the simplification of linearizing the trajectory of the satellite. By approximating the motion of the Earth as uniform during the short signal travel times we are able to work in the geocentric celestial reference system. We investigate differences between numerical and analytical solutions by simulating VLBI observations of Earth satellites. These tests reveal that delays computed with the analytical formula are consistent with those computed with the numerical solution below the detection level of VLBI but at less computational cost. Numéro de notice : A2019-354 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1217-0 date de publication en ligne : 20/11/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1217-0 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=93408 [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]

The impact of relative and absolute GNSS positioning strategies on estimated coordinates and ZWD in the framework of meteorological applications / Alessandro Fermi in Applied geomatics, vol 11 n° 1 (March 2019)  

Public [article]  inApplied geomatics > vol 11 n° 1 (March 2019) . - pp 25 - 38 Titre : The impact of relative and absolute GNSS positioning strategies on estimated coordinates and ZWD in the framework of meteorological applications Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Alessandro Fermi, Auteur ; Eugenio Realini, Auteur ; Giovanna Venuti, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 25 - 38 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] coordonnées GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données météorologiques [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement absolu [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement différentiel [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] teneur en vapeur d'eau Résumé : (Auteur) Since many years, the GNSS has been regarded by the meteorological community as one of the systems for atmospheric water vapour remote sensing. Time series of wet delays, estimated as by-products of accurate positioning, have been assimilated into numerical weather prediction models. However, a dedicated use the system for water vapour monitoring is still under investigation. Ad hoc dense networks have been designed and implemented to collect data at a high spatial resolution, baseline lengths lower than 10 km, with the aim of describing the high spatial and temporal variability of tropospheric water vapour. Within this framework, the paper reports a study on how the positioning strategy affects the estimated coordinates and tropospheric parameters. The study was conducted on the data collected by an experimental network of geodetic receivers, used as single or dual frequency ones. More specifically, investigations were made on the use of L1-only or iono-free combinations in differential positioning of receivers 100 to 10 km apart, finding that L1-only data provide more accurate results. Therefore, comparisons between local coordinates and ZWD obtained from relative and absolute positioning were performed to provide the statistics of the differences; the agreement between the results for short baselines is always better than 1 cm standard deviation. In order to assess the differences in the results that can be obtained from the two strategies when applied to the same observation set, a further comparison was carried out in terms of baseline components and ZWD increments. It results that, even for dense networks, the differential approach produces accurate results without losing information compared to the absolute one. Numéro de notice : A2019-159 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s12518-018-0234-2 date de publication en ligne : 19/07/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s12518-018-0234-2 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92520 [article]

A new global grid model for the determination of atmospheric weighted mean temperature in GPS precipitable water vapor / Liangke Huang in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n° 2 (February 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n° 2 (February 2019) . - pp 159 - 176 Titre : A new global grid model for the determination of atmospheric weighted mean temperature in GPS precipitable water vapor Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Liangke Huang, Auteur ; Weiping Jiang, Auteur ; Lilong Liu, Auteur ; Hua Chen, Auteur ; Shirong Ye, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 159 - 176 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] coordonnées GPS [Termes descripteurs IGN] données météorologiques [Termes descripteurs IGN] erreur moyenne quadratique [Termes descripteurs IGN] Global Geodetic Observing System [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle de géopotentiel [Termes descripteurs IGN] prévision météorologique [Termes descripteurs IGN] radiosondage [Termes descripteurs IGN] régression linéaire [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) In ground-based global positioning system (GPS) meteorology, atmospheric weighted mean temperature, Tm, plays a very important role in the progress of retrieving precipitable water vapor (PWV) from the zenith wet delay of the GPS. Generally, most of the existing Tm models only take either latitude or altitude into account in modeling. However, a great number of studies have shown that Tm is highly correlated with both latitude and altitude. In this study, a new global grid empirical Tm model, named as GGTm, was established by a sliding window algorithm using global gridded Tm data over an 8-year period from 2007 to 2014 provided by TU Vienna, where both latitude and altitude variations are considered in modeling. And the performance of GGTm was assessed by comparing with the Bevis formula and the GPT2w model, where the high-precision global gridded Tm data as provided by TU Vienna and the radiosonde data from 2015 are used as reference values. The results show the significant performance of the new GGTm model against other models when compared with gridded Tm data and radiosonde data, especially in the areas with great undulating terrain. Additionally, GGTm has the global mean RMSPWV and RMSPWV/PWV values of 0.26 mm and 1.28%, respectively. The GGTm model, fed only by the day of the year and the station coordinates, could provide a reliable and accurate Tm value, which shows the possible potential application in real-time GPS meteorology, especially for the application of low-latitude areas and western China. Numéro de notice : A2019-077 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1148-9 date de publication en ligne : 15/05/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1148-9 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92191 [article]

Impact of GPS antenna phase center models on zenith wet delay and tropospheric gradients / Yohannes Getachew Ejigu in GPS solutions, vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019)  

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Atmospheric artifacts correction with a covariance-weighted linear model over mountainous regions / Zhongbo Hu in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 56 n° 12 (December 2018)  

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Performance analysis of PPP positioning method by using IGS real-time service / Tatjana Kuzmić in Geodetski vestnik, vol 62 n° 4 (December 2018 - February 2019)  

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PPPH : a MATLAB-based software for multi-GNSS precise point positioning analysis / Berkay Bahadur in GPS solutions, vol 22 n° 4 (October 2018)  

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Assessment of local GNSS baselines at co-location sites / Iván Herrera Pinzón in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 9 (September 2018)  

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The impact of solid Earth-tide model error on tropospheric zenith delay estimates and GPS coordinate time series / Fei Li in Survey review, vol 50 n° 361 (July 2018)  

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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)  

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Modeling tropospheric wet delays with national GNSS reference network in China for BeiDou precise point positioning / Fu Zheng in Journal of geodesy, vol 92 n° 5 (May 2018)  

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Reduction of ZTD outliers through improved GNSS data processing and screening strategies [Interactive discussion] / Katarzyna Stępniak in Atmospheric measurement techniques, vol 11 n° 3 (March 2018)  

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Precipitable water vapour content from ESR/SKYNET sun–sky radiometers : validation against GNSS/GPS and AERONET over three different sites in Europe / Monica Campanelli in Atmospheric measurement techniques, vol 11 n° 1 (January 2018)    

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