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A New High Precision Wide Area DGPS System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

V. Ashkenazi ,
C. H. J. Chao ,
W. Chen ,
C. J. Hill  and
T. Moore
T. Moore
Affiliation:
(Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, The University of Nottingham)
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This paper describes an advanced method, and the corresponding algorithms, which could provide a high precision Wide Area Differential GPS (WADGPS). The service would be suitable for single or dual frequency users, and could be introduced with very few reference stations. The two main components of the service are a precise, near real-time orbit determination of the GPS satellites, and an accurate estimation and modelling of ionospheric and tropospheric effects. Broad principles of the processing algorithms and results of both simulation and real data tests are described. User positioning accuracies of better than 2·5 m (r.m.s.) in plan and 3·0 m (r.m.s.) in height are achieved by both single and dual frequency scenarios.

Wide Area Differential GPS (WADGPS) is being developed to overcome the main drawbacks of conventional or Local Area Differential GPS (LADGPS), where positional accuracy of a user degrades as the reference-to-user separation increases. The spatial decorrelation of the error sources, notably the atmospheric propagation and satellite orbital errors inherent in GPS, are the main causes of this accuracy degradation. Several organizations are involved in WADGPS research, and different conceptual approaches have been suggested. The proposed methods all share a common basic assumption: that the error sources which affect the system are broken down into individual error components and are modelled separately. The variance between the different techniques comes from the way in which the different error components are modelled.

Keywords

1. Satellite navigation.2. Differential systems.
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 109 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1997

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