Definition and implementation of a new service for precise GNSS positioning
Definition and implementation of a new service for precise GNSS positioning
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2017-09
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Paulo Sérgio De Oliveira Junior
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Paulo Sérgio De Oliveira Junior
PPP (Precise Point Positioning) is a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) method, based on SSR (State Space Representation) concept. Thanks to recent improvements in atmospheric models, Real-time PPP (RT-PPP) can also be improved. The main objective of this work is to study the RT-PPP and the optimized infrastructure in terms of costs and benefits to realize the method using atmospheric corrections. Therefore, different configurations of a dense and regular GNSS network existing in France, the Orpheon network, are used. This network has about 160 sites and is owned by Geodata-Diffusion (Hexagon Geosystems). Initially, ‘float PPP-RTK’ was evaluated, it corresponds to RT-PPP with improvements resulting from network corrections, although with ambiguities kept float. Further on, network corrections are applied to improve “PPP-RTK” where ambiguities are fixed to their integer values. For the float PPP-RTK, a modified version of the RTKLib 2.4.3 (beta) package is used to apply network corrections. First-order ionospheric effects were eliminated by the iono-free combination and zenith tropospheric delay estimated. The corrections were applied by introducing a priori constrained tropospheric parameters. Adaptive modeling based on OFCs (Optimal Fitting Coefficients) has been developed to describe the behavior of the troposphere, using estimates of tropospheric delays for Orpheon stations. This solution allows one-way communication between the server and the user. The gains achieved in convergence time to 10 centimeters accuracy were statistically quantified. Network topology was assessed by reducing the number of reference stations (up to 75%) using a sparse network configuration. In the second step, PPP-RTK is realized using the PPP-Wizard 1.3 software and CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) real-time products for orbits, clocks and phase biases of satellites. The RT-IPPP (RT-Integer PPP) is performed with estimation of tropospheric and ionospheric delays. Ionospheric and tropospheric corrections are introduced as a priori parameters constrained in PPP-RTK. To generate ionospheric corrections, it was implemented an Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) algorithm. Improvements achieved in horizontal positioning due to external SSR corrections from a (dense or sparse) network are promising and may be useful for applications that depend primarily on horizontal positioning.