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Integrity investigation of global ionospheric TEC maps for high-precision positioning / Jiaojiao Zhao in Journal of geodesy, vol 95 n° 3 (March 2021)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 95 n° 3 (March 2021) . - n° 35 Titre : Integrity investigation of global ionospheric TEC maps for high-precision positioning Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jiaojiao Zhao, Auteur ; Manuel Hernández-Pajares, Auteur ; Ningbo Wang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 35 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] carte ionosphérique mondiale [Termes IGN] erreur moyenne quadratique [Termes IGN] International GNSS Service [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] modèle stochastique [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] tempête magnétique [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) Aside from the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) information, root-mean-square (RMS) maps are also provided as the standard deviations of the corresponding TEC errors in global ionospheric maps (GIMs). As the RMS maps are commonly used as the accuracy indicator of GIMs to optimize the stochastic model of precise point positioning algorithms, it is of crucial importance to investigate the reliability of RMS maps involved in GIMs of different Ionospheric Associated Analysis Centers (IAACs) of the International GNSS Service (IGS), i.e., the integrity of GIMs. We indirectly analyzed the reliability of RMS maps by comparing the actual error of the differential STEC (dSTEC) with the RMS of the dSTEC derived from the RMS maps. With this method, the integrity of seven rapid IGS GIMs (UQRG, CORG, JPRG, WHRG, EHRG, EMRG, and IGRG) and six final GIMs (UPCG, CODG, JPLG, WHUG, ESAG and IGSG) was examined under the maximum and minimum solar activity conditions as well as the geomagnetic storm period. The results reveal that the reliability of the RMS maps is significantly different for the GIMs from different IAACs. Among these GIMs, the values in the RMS maps of UQRG are large, which can be used as ionospheric protection level, while the RMS values in EHRG and ESAG are significantly lower than the realistic RMS. The rapid and final GIMs from CODE, JPL and WHU provide quite reasonable RMS maps. The bounding performance of RMS maps can be influenced by the location of the stations, while the influence of solar activity and the geomagnetic storm is not obvious. Numéro de notice : A2021-220 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-021-01487-8 Date de publication en ligne : 22/02/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-021-01487-8 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97188 [article]

Reducing convergence time of precise point positioning with ionospheric constraints and receiver differential code bias modeling / Yan Xiang in Journal of geodesy, vol 94 n°1 (January 2020)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 94 n°1 (January 2020) Titre : Reducing convergence time of precise point positioning with ionospheric constraints and receiver differential code bias modeling Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yan Xiang, Auteur ; Yang Gao, Auteur ; Yihe Li, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] carte ionosphérique mondiale [Termes IGN] double différence [Termes IGN] horloge du récepteur [Termes IGN] mesurage de phase [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] phase [Termes IGN] positionnement différentiel [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique [Termes IGN] temps de convergence [Termes IGN] teneur totale en électrons Résumé : (auteur) Long convergence time has limited the wide application of traditional precise point positioning (PPP) based on an ionosphere-free combination of dual-frequency observations. Different from the traditional PPP, the uncombined PPP method based on raw observations estimates ionospheric delays. When external ionospheric information is available, it can be applied as a constraint to help shorten the convergence time, as a result of the reduced correlation between the position and the ionospheric parameters. The receiver differential code biases (DCBs) will be a concern, however, when applying the external ionospheric information. For receiver DCBs, it is usually assumed that the biases can be absorbed by the receiver clock parameters. We have demonstrated that the receiver DCBs cannot be fully assimilated by one receiver code clock parameter because the receiver DCBs have different effects on the code and carrier phase measurements at any frequency. Additional parameters are necessary to model the receiver DCBs so that their effects on the positioning solution can be minimized. We developed an ionosphere-constrained PPP model to incorporate ionospheric total electron content (TEC) in the slant (STEC) and vertical (VTEC) when leveraging a regional network and global ionospheric maps (GIMs). Both static and kinematic experimental results show that the convergence time and the positioning accuracy can be improved significantly. Accuracies at the first epoch of 0.4 m for GIM constraints, and 0.2 m for the regional constraints, are achievable. The convergence time to 1 dm horizontal accuracy is reduced to 7.5 min at a 68% confidence level. Numéro de notice : A2020-149 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-019-01334-x Date de publication en ligne : 02/01/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-019-01334-x Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94781 [article]

Helmert-VCE-aided fast-WTLS approach for global ionospheric VTEC modelling using data from GNSS, satellite altimetry and radio occultation / Andong Hu in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°6 (June 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°6 (June 2019) . - pp 877 - 888 Titre : Helmert-VCE-aided fast-WTLS approach for global ionospheric VTEC modelling using data from GNSS, satellite altimetry and radio occultation Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Andong Hu, Auteur ; Zishen Li, Auteur ; Brett Anthony Carter, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 877 - 888 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] carte ionosphérique mondiale [Termes IGN] données altimétriques [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] méthode des moindres carrés [Termes IGN] modèle ionosphérique [Termes IGN] occultation du signal [Termes IGN] pondération [Termes IGN] retard ionosphèrique [Termes IGN] teneur verticale totale en électrons [Termes IGN] variance Résumé : (auteur) Vertical total electron content (VTEC) global ionospheric maps (GIM) are commonly used to correct the ionospheric delay of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals for single-frequency positioning and other ionospheric studies. The measurements observed by inhomogeneously distributed ground reference stations are the only data used to generate the GIMs. Thus the accuracy of the GIMs over ocean and polar regions is relatively poor due to the lack of measurements over these regions. In this study, space-borne VTECs obtained from ocean-altimetry and GNSS radio occultation measurements are incorporated into the modelling process. Since the three types of VTEC data have different qualities, the weight for each type of data is determined using the Helmert-variance component estimation (Helmert-VCE) method. In addition, unlike the traditional weighted least squares (WLS) estimation method in which the design matrix of observation equations is fixed, in this study, the design matrix, especially those elements in design matrix that are derived from the coordinates of either tangent point or ionospheric pierce point, are considered to be inaccurate. Thus they are adjusted together with the unknown coefficient parameters of the fitting model using the fast-weighted total least squares (fast-WTLS) technique. The proposed approach, named Helmert-WTLS, was tested using the data in the period of day of year (DOY) 217–224, 2016 and validated using GIMs produced by the research team for ionosphere and precise positioning based on BDS/GNSS (GIPP) at the Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Comparison results showed that the GIMs (with a 2 h temporal resolution) generated using the new approach can improve the determination of ionospheric TEC by 0.28 TEC units (TECU) over those from the Helmert-VCE-aided WLS approach (w.r.t CAS references, respectively) and by 1.61 TECU better than those from WLS, in terms of the mean of all root-mean-squares errors of all 2 h time slots in the 8-day testing period. In addition, in comparison with out-of-sample Jason-3 observations, results from the proposed method also outperformed Helmert-VCE-aided WLS, CAS and CODE models by 1.5, 2.4 and 2.4 TECU, respectively. Numéro de notice : A2019-352 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-018-1210-7 Date de publication en ligne : 14/11/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1210-7 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=93398 [article]