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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)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 23 n° 1 (January 2019) Titre : Impact of GPS antenna phase center models on zenith wet delay and tropospheric gradients Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yohannes Getachew Ejigu, Auteur ; Addisu Hunegnaw, Auteur ; Kibrom Ebuy Abraha, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes descripteurs IGN] antenne GPS [Termes descripteurs IGN] centre de phase [Termes descripteurs IGN] données GPS [Termes descripteurs IGN] gradient de troposphère [Termes descripteurs IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes descripteurs IGN] teneur intégré en vapeur d'eau [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement de données GNSS Résumé : (Auteur) Today Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) tropospheric products, such as zenith total delays (ZTD) and zenith wet delays (ZWD), are widely used as complementary data sets in numerical weather prediction models. In particular, the wet delays are treated as unknown parameters in GNSS processing and are estimated with other parameters such as station coordinates. In this study, we investigate the effects of Phase Center Correction (PCC) models on ZWD, integrated water vapor (IWV) and horizontal gradients derived from Global Positioning System (GPS) observations. Two solutions were generated using the GAMIT software over the European Reference Frame (EUREF) Permanent GNSS Network (EPN). The first (reference) solution was derived by applying the International GNSS Service (IGS) type-mean PCC models, while for the second solution PCC models from individual calibrations were used. The solutions were generated identically, except for the PCC model differences. The tropospheric products from the two solutions were then compared, with the assumption that common signals would be differenced out. The comparison of the two solutions clearly shows a bias in all tropospheric products, which can be attributed to PCC model deficiencies. Overall, mean biases of 1.8, 0.3, 0.14 and 0.19 mm are evident in ZWD, IWV, North–South and East–West gradients, respectively. Moreover, the differences between the two solutions show seasonal variations. For all antenna types, the ZWD and IWV differences are dominated by white plus power-law noise, with the latter characterizing the low-frequency spectrum. On the other hand, the horizontal gradients exhibit a white plus first-order autoregressive noise characteristic with less than 1% white noise. The individual PCC model provides a better fit to an external independent model in terms of gradient estimates and also provides up to 3% more carrier phase integer ambiguity resolution. Numéro de notice : A2019-056 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s10291-018-0796-9 date de publication en ligne : 25/10/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-018-0796-9 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92085 [article]

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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Tropospheric delay modelling for the EGNOS augmentation system / Kamil Kazmierski in Survey review, vol 49 n° 357 (December 2017)  

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Improving the modeling of the atmospheric delay in the data analysis of the Intensive VLBI sessions and the impact on the UT1 estimates / Tobias Nilsson in Journal of geodesy, vol 91 n° 7 (July 2017)  

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Optimum stochastic modeling for GNSS tropospheric delay estimation in real-time / Tomasz Hadas in GPS solutions, vol 21 n° 3 (July 2017)  

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