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GNSS/INS Kalman filter integrity monitoring with uncertain time correlated error processes / Omar Garcia Crespillo (2022)  

Public Titre : GNSS/INS Kalman filter integrity monitoring with uncertain time correlated error processes Type de document : Thèse/HDR Auteurs : Omar Garcia Crespillo, Auteur ; Jan Skaloud, Directeur de thèse ; Michael Meurer, Directeur de thèse Editeur : Lausanne : Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 180 p. Format : 21 x 30 cm Note générale : bibliographie Thèse présentée pour l'obtention du grade de Docteur ès Sciences Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Navigation et positionnement [Termes IGN] corrélation temporelle [Termes IGN] couplage GNSS-INS [Termes IGN] filtre de Kalman [Termes IGN] fréquence multiple [Termes IGN] modèle d'erreur [Termes IGN] modèle de Gauss-Markov [Termes IGN] navigation inertielle [Termes IGN] norme [Termes IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes IGN] Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring [Termes IGN] système d'extension Résumé : (auteur) Safety-critical navigation applications require that estimation errors be reliably quantified and bounded. Over the last decade, significant effort has been put to guarantee a bounded position estimation by using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) by means of satellite-based or ground-based augmentation systems (SBAS, GBAS) and Advanced Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (ARAIM) for aviation. This has been achieved by carefully designing models that overbound the different residual error components in range measurements (e.g., satellite clock and orbit, tropospheric and multipath among others). On the other hand, and as part of Aircraft based Augmentation Systems (ABAS), the use of Inertial Reference Systems (IRS) has been traditionally included as additional source of redundant navigation information. More recently, the use of Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) with a wider spectrum of possible inertial sensor qualities in tighter integration with single-frequency GNSS has seen its way in a new Minimum Operational Performance Standard (MOPS). New GNSS/INS systems and standards could still benefit from the methodologies and aspects developed for future dual-frequency/multiconstellation GNSS standards. However, safety-related GNSS systems like ARAIM are snapshot-based, that is, the position estimation is performed independently at every epoch, whereas GNSS/INS systems are typically based on Kalman filtering (KF). Therefore, the existing error overbounding models and methodologies are not enough to produce a robust KF position estimation since the impact of time-correlation in measurements must also be accounted for. Moreover, it has been observed that the time-correlation of different GNSS errors presents also some level of uncertain behavior, which makes very challenging for linear dynamic systems to produce a guaranteed solution. As proposed by GNSS Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS), there are sources of time-correlated errors that can be well modelled using a first order Gauss-Markov process (GMP). Using this GMP parametric model, it is possible to capture the uncertain timecorrelated nature of error processes by allowing the variance and time correlation constant of the GMP model to be in a bounded range. Under this situation, the first part of this thesis studies the propagation of the uncertain models through the Kalman filter estimation and provides new theoretical tools in time and frequency domain to bound the KF error estimation covariance. As a result, tight stationary bounding models on the GMP uncertain processes are derived in both continuous and discrete time domain. This is extended to non-stationary models that provide tighter error bounding during an initial transient phase when measurements are first introduced (which will be relevant in scenarios with changing number of visible satellites). The new models can very easily be used during the KF implementation which might be very attractive by regulators and designers. In the second part of the thesis, the new overbounding GMP models are applied for a dual-frequency GPS-Galileo tightly-coupled GNSS/INS integration. The design of the filter and of error models is performed following compatibility with current aviation standards and ARAIM Working Group C results. The impact of the use of the new models is analysed in terms of conservativeness, integrity and continuity based on realistic operational simulations linked to airport runways. The benefit of an overbounded GNSS/INS solution is also compared with the current baseline ARAIM algorithm solution. This thesis supports the evolution of safe GNSS-based positioning systems from only snapshot based to filtered solutions. Ensuring integrity for Kalman filter in general and for GNSS/INS systems in particular is a game changer to achieve higher performance levels for future dualfrequency multi-constellation aviation services and is of vital importance for new ground and air applications like autonomous vehicles or urban air mobility. Note de contenu : Introduction 1- Preliminaries 2- Bounding Kalman Filter with uncertain error processes 3- Application to GNSS/INS integraty monitoring 4- Closing 5- Appendix Numéro de notice : 28688 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Thèse étrangère Note de thèse : Thèse de Doctorat : Sciences : Lausanne : 2022 DOI : sans En ligne : https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/292087?ln=fr Format de la ressource électronique : URL Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100103

Sentinel-1 sensitivity to soil moisture at high incidence angle and the impact on retrieval over seasonal crops / Davide Palmisano in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, Vol 59 n° 9 (September 2021)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > Vol 59 n° 9 (September 2021) . - pp 7308 - 7321 Titre : Sentinel-1 sensitivity to soil moisture at high incidence angle and the impact on retrieval over seasonal crops Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Davide Palmisano, Auteur ; Francesco Mattia, Auteur ; Anna Balenzano, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : pp 7308 - 7321 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] analyse de sensibilité [Termes IGN] angle d'incidence [Termes IGN] bande C [Termes IGN] carte agricole [Termes IGN] Castille-et-Leon (Espagne) [Termes IGN] corrélation temporelle [Termes IGN] cultures [Termes IGN] humidité du sol [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes IGN] Pouilles (Italie) [Termes IGN] réseau hydrographique [Termes IGN] rétrodiffusion [Termes IGN] transfert radiatif Résumé : (auteur) Approximately, 30% of the Sentinel-1 (S-1) swath over land is imaged with incidence angles higher than 40°. Still, the interplay among the scattering mechanisms taking place at such a high incidence and their implications on the backscatter information content is often disregarded. This article investigates, through an experimental and numerical study, the S-1 sensitivity to the surface soil moisture (SSM) over agricultural fields observed at low (~33°) and high (~43°) incidence angles and quantifies the impact of the incidence angle on the SSM retrieval accuracy. The study sites are the Apulian Tavoliere (Italy) and REd de MEDición de la HUmedad del Suelo (REMEDHUS) (Spain), which are both instrumented with a hydrologic network continuously measuring SSM. At low incidence angles, results confirm that for crops such as wheat and barley, dominated in C-band by surface scattering, there exists a good sensitivity of S-1 VV to SSM. At high incidence angles, the sensitivity to SSM holds through the combination of the soil attenuated and double bounce scattering. Conversely, over crops dominated by volume scattering, such as sugar beet, the S-1 VV signal is not correlated with the in situ SSM observations, neither at low nor at high incidence. For all the crops, the sensitivity of S-1 to SSM in VH is found significantly lower than in VV. The impact of the incidence angle on the SSM retrieval has been studied with a recursive algorithm based on a short-term change detection approach. An upper and lower bounds for the worsening of the S-1 VV retrieval performance at far versus near range observations have been estimated. In the worst-case scenario, the root mean square error (RMSE) increases from ~0.056 m 3 /m 3 , at low incidence, to ~0.071 m 3 /m 3 , at high incidence. The mechanism that lowers the retrieval accuracy at high incidence angles is further investigated in the synthetic experiment and its impact on the RMSE is estimated in terms of the volume scattering contribution. Numéro de notice : A2021-646 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3033887 Date de publication en ligne : 10/11/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.3033887 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98351 [article]

Reducing multipath effect of low-cost GNSS receivers for monitoring by considering temporal correlations / Li Zhang in Journal of applied geodesy, vol 14 n° 2 (April 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of applied geodesy > vol 14 n° 2 (April 2020) . - pp 167 – 175 Titre : Reducing multipath effect of low-cost GNSS receivers for monitoring by considering temporal correlations Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Li Zhang, Auteur ; Volker Schwieger, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 167 – 175 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] atténuation du signal [Termes IGN] corrélation temporelle [Termes IGN] coût [Termes IGN] itération [Termes IGN] ligne de base [Termes IGN] oscillation [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] plan de masse [Termes IGN] qualité des données [Termes IGN] récepteur GNSS [Termes IGN] récepteur monofréquence [Termes IGN] réflecteur [Termes IGN] source d'erreur [Termes IGN] trajet multiple Résumé : (auteur) The investigations on low-cost single frequency GNSS receivers at the Institute of Engineering Geodesy (IIGS) show that u-blox GNSS receivers combined with low-cost antennas and self-constructed L1-optimized choke rings can reach an accuracy which almost meets the requirements of geodetic applications (see Zhang and Schwieger [25]). However, the quality (accuracy and reliability) of low-cost GNSS receiver data should still be improved, particularly in environments with obstructions. The multipath effects are a major error source for the short baselines. The ground plate or the choke ring ground plane can reduce the multipath signals from the horizontal reflector (e. g. ground). However, the shieldings cannot reduce the multipath signals from the vertical reflectors (e. g. walls). Because multipath effects are spatially and temporally correlated, an algorithm is developed for reducing the multipath effect by considering the spatial correlations of the adjoined stations (see Zhang and Schwieger [24]). In this paper, an algorithm based on the temporal correlations will be introduced. The developed algorithm is based on the periodic behavior of the estimated coordinates and not on carrier phase raw data, which is easy to use. Because, for the users, coordinates are more accessible than the raw data. The multipath effect can cause periodic oscillations but the periods change over time. Besides this, the multipath effect’s influence on the coordinates is a mixture of different multipath signals from different satellites and different reflectors. These two properties will be used to reduce the multipath effect. The algorithm runs in two steps and iteratively. Test measurements were carried out in a multipath intensive environment; the accuracies of the measurements are improved by about 50 % and the results can be delivered in near-real-time (in ca. 30 minutes), therefore the algorithm is suitable for structural health monitoring applications. Numéro de notice : A2020-217 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1515/jag-2019-0059 Date de publication en ligne : 27/03/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1515/jag-2019-0059 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94910 [article]

A single-receiver geometry-free approach to stochastic modeling of multi-frequency GNSS observables / Baocheng Zhang in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n°4 (April 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 94 n°4 (April 2020) Titre : A single-receiver geometry-free approach to stochastic modeling of multi-frequency GNSS observables Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Baocheng Zhang, Auteur ; Pengyu Hou, Auteur ; Teng Liu, Auteur ; Yunbin Yuan, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Navigation et positionnement [Termes IGN] analyse de variance [Termes IGN] corrélation croisée normalisée [Termes IGN] corrélation temporelle [Termes IGN] fréquence multiple [Termes IGN] méthode des moindres carrés [Termes IGN] méthode robuste [Termes IGN] modèle stochastique [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] récepteur [Termes IGN] traitement de données GNSS [Termes IGN] trajet multiple Résumé : (auteur) The proper choice of stochastic model is of great importance to global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data processing. Whereas extensive investigations into stochastic modeling are mainly based on the relative (or differential) method employing zero and/or short baselines, this work proposes an absolute method that relies upon a stand-alone receiver and works by applying the least-squares variance component estimation to the geometry-free functional model, thus facilitating the characterization of stochastic properties of multi-frequency GNSS observables at the undifferenced level. In developing the absolute method, special care has been taken of the code multipath effects by introducing ambiguity-like parameters to the code observation equations. By means of both the relative and absolute methods, we characterize the precision, cross and time correlation of the code and phase observables of two newly emerging constellations, namely the Chinese BDS and the European Galileo, collected by a variety of receivers of different types at multiple frequencies. Our first finding is that so far as the precision is concerned, the absolute method yields nearly the same numerical values as those derived by the zero-baseline-based relative method. However, the two methods give contradictory results with regard to the cross correlation, which is found (not) to occur between BDS phase observables when use has been made of the relative (absolute) method. Our explanation to this discrepancy is that the cross correlation found in the relative method originates from the parts (antenna, cable, low noise amplifier) shared by two receivers creating a zero baseline. The time correlation is only of significance when the multipath effects are present, as is the case with the short-baseline-based relative method; this correlation turns out to be largely weaker (or ideally absent) in the absolute (or zero-baseline-based relative) method. Moreover, with the absolute method, the stochastic properties determined for two receivers of the same type but subject to different multipath effects are virtually the same. We take this as a convincing evidence that the absolute method is robust against multipath effects. Hence, the absolute method proposed in the present work represents a promising complement to the relative method and appears to be particularly beneficial to GNSS positioning, navigation and timing technologies based on the undifferenced observables, typically the precise point positioning. Numéro de notice : A2020-160 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-020-01366-8 Date de publication en ligne : 09/03/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-020-01366-8 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94817 [article]

An analytic expression for the phase noise of the goldstein–werner filter / Scott Hensley in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 57 n° 9 (September 2019)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 57 n° 9 (September 2019) . - pp 6499 - 6516 Titre : An analytic expression for the phase noise of the goldstein–werner filter Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Scott Hensley, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 6499 - 6516 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] bruit thermique [Termes IGN] corrélation temporelle [Termes IGN] densité spectrale de puissance [Termes IGN] filtrage du bruit [Termes IGN] filtre de Goldstein [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] interféromètrie par radar à antenne synthétique [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] pouvoir de résolution spectrale [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] transformation de Fourier Résumé : (auteur) Interferogram filtering for noise reduction is a key to many radar interferometric applications. Repeat pass radar interferometry often uses data with less than ideal correlation levels resulting from either long spatial or temporal baselines or changes between observations leading to high levels of temporal correlation. To maximize the utility of such pairs filtering the interferogram to get maximal noise reduction is often needed. One technique that has proved quite useful in the geophysical community is power spectral or Goldstein–Werner filtering of the interferogram whereby a power-weighted version of the Fourier transform is used to enhance fringe visibility. Although this paper defining the filter briefly touched upon the spatial resolution and noise reduction induced by the filter, it did not provide a useful formula for predicting the phase noise after filtering. This paper derives a formula for the phase noise obtained from power spectral filtering albeit under the restriction of several simplifying assumptions to make the problem analytically tractable. In particular, it is assumed that the interferometric phase is locally well approximated by a linear phase ramp with nonlinear phase perturbations small in a spectral energy sense compared to the linear term. Numéro de notice : A2019-343 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2906549 Date de publication en ligne : 25/04/2019 En ligne : http://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2906549 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=93378 [article]

Ground displacement measurements / Louis-Marie Gauer (2019)

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Satellite remote sensing of the variability of the continental hydrology cycle in the lower Mekong basin over the last two decades / Binh Pham-Duc (2018)  

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Filtrage de Kalman à bruits corrélés pour le positionnement précis / Ulrich Mambou Kuipou (2016) 

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Three-Corner Hat for the assessment of the uncertainty of non-linear residuals of space-geodetic time series in the context of terrestrial reference frame analysis / Claudio Abbondanza in Journal of geodesy, vol 89 n° 4 (April 2015)  

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