GPS卫星星历的精度分析

利用全球GPS永久性跟踪站WUHN(武汉)站在SA取消前后五天的广播星历文件计算得到在视卫星的位置和钟差，与事后IGS精密星历提供的卫星位置和钟差进行比较分析，说明SA取消对广播星历的影响。     

GNSS广播星历轨道和钟差精度分析

为了对多个全球导航卫星系统（global navigation satellite system, GNSS）当前的广播星历精度进行一个全面的分析,对比了2014—2018年共5 a的GNSS广播星历与精密星历,并对全球定位系统（global positioning system, GPS）、格洛纳斯卫星导航系统（global navigation satellite system, GLONASS）、伽利略卫星导航系统（Galileo satellite navigation system, Galileo）、北斗卫星导航系统（BeiDou navigation satellite system, BDS）、准天顶卫星系统（quasi-zenith satellite system, QZSS）等5个系统的广播星历长期精度变化进行了分析。结果表明:5 a中GPS的广播星历轨道及钟差精度最稳定;GLONASS的广播星历轨道精度稳定性较好,但其钟差精度存在较大的离散度;Galileo得益于具备全面运行能力（full operational capability, FOC）卫星的大量发射及运行,其广播星历轨道、钟差精度大幅度变好,切向轨道、法向轨道与钟差精度已赶超GPS;BDS的广播星历轨道精度离散度较大,钟差精度出现不稳定现象;QZSS的广播星历轨道与钟差精度的稳定性与离散度相对最差。以2018年1 a的广播星历与精密星历为例分析了各个系统当前的广播星历精度,结果表明,当前GPS、GLONASS、Galileo、BDS、QZSS的考虑轨道误差与钟差误差贡献的空间信号测距误差（signal-in-space ranging error,SISRE）分别为0.806 m、2.704 m、0.320 m、1.457 m、1.645 m,表明Galileo广播星历整体精度最高,GPS次之,其次分别是BDS、QZSS和GLONASS。只考虑轨道误差贡献的SISRE分别为0.167 m、0.541 m、0.229 m、0.804 m、0.675 m,表明GPS广播星历轨道精度最高,其次分别是Galileo、GLONASS、QZSS和BDS。GPS卫星广播星历中新型号卫星的钟差精度总体要优于旧型号卫星。     

四大GNSS广播星历精度评估与对比分析

分析了 目前广播星历精度评估中存在的问题,详细论述了广播星历精度评估过程中对精密星历进行天线相位中心改正的取值方法,提出了利用单颗星单日钟差均值作二次差对广播星历钟差的系统性偏差进行改正的方法.选取2019-09-01-2019-11-01 共计62天的多模 GNSS 实验(multi-GNSS experiment,...     

Long-term behavior and statistical characterization of BeiDou signal-in-space errors

GPS Solutions - We derive orbit and clock errors for BeiDou satellites from March 1, 2013, to September 30, 2016 by comparing broadcast ephemerides with the precise ephemerides produced by Wuhan...     

Time-Relative Positioning with a Single Civil GPS Receiver

Time-relative positioning is a recent method for processing GPS phase observations. The operational method undertaken in this paper consists of the following steps: first, recording phase observations at a station of known coordinates; second, moving the GPS receiver to an unknown station (which can be located up to a few hundred meters away, dependint on what type of transportation – e. g., walking, motorcycle – is available) while continuously observing carrier phases; and, third, recording phase observations at a second station of unknown coordinates with a single GPS receiver. To obtain the position of the unknown station relative to the first (known) station, the processing method uses combined observations taken at two different epochs and two different stations with the same receiver. For this reason, the errors that vary between two epochs must be taken into account in an appropriate way, especially errors in satellite clock corrections and ephemerides, and errors related to tropospheric and ionospheric delays. Ionospheric modeling using IONEX files (the ionospheric maps calculated by the International GPS Service) was also tested to correct L1 phase observations. This method has been used to calculate short vectors with an accuracy of a few centimeters (for a processing interval of 30 s) using a single civil GPS receiver. ? 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

GPS导航电文核心定位参数发展演变分析

文章总结了GPS空间信号接口控制文件的发展历程,对比了现有3种导航电文类型的电文结构及播发方式, 详细分析了星历参数、钟差参数及完好性参数等核心定位参数的发展演变特点和改进效果. 结果表明:GPS新型导航电文采用增加核心定位参数和减小量化单位的方法,提高了广播星历和钟差产品的精度. 增加两个参数后,地面星历拟合位置误差均方根(RMS)平均值由0.137 m减小为0.025 m. 为适应高精度星历拟合模型,距离量化单位也减小至毫米量级. 通过减小卫星钟差参数的量化单位,预报1 h钟差误差RMS由0.097 m减小至0.042 m.      

Single GPS receiver time-relative positioning with loop misclosure corrections

Time-relative positioning makes use of observations taken at two different epochs and stations with a single global positioning system (GPS) receiver to determine the position of the unknown station with respect to the known station. The limitation of this method is the degradation over time of the positioning accuracy due to the temporal variation of GPS errors (ionospheric delay, satellite clock corrections, satellite ephemerides, and tropospheric delay). The impact of these errors is significantly reduced by adding to the one-way move from the known to the unknown station, a back move to the known station. A loop misclosure is computed from the coordinates obtained at the known station at the beginning and at the end of the loop, and is used to correct the coordinates of the unknown station. The field tests, presented in this paper, show that using the loop misclosure corrections, time-relative positioning accuracy can be improved by about 60% when using single frequency data, and by about 40% with dual frequency data. For a 4-min processing interval (an 8-min loop) and a 95% probability level, errors remain under 20 cm for the horizontal components and 36 cm for the vertical component with single frequency data; and under 11 cm for the horizontal components and 29 cm for the vertical component with dual frequency data.     

Galileo系统服务中断前后广播星历精度对比分析

2019年7月中旬发生的Galileo服务中断事件,在整个卫星导航发展史上都是较为罕见的重大事故。本文选取Galileo服务中断前后的广播星历,从纵向（利用中断前后29 d的数据）和横向（与其他主要系统进行对比）两个维度,通过卫星位置、速度、钟差、空间信号测距误差4个方面,对中断事件前后广播星历计算精度进行了较为全面的分析。结果表明：从纵向维度来看,服务中断前,Galileo健康卫星数发生剧烈变化,卫星钟差精度普遍发散,卫星位置、速度精度未发生明显异常,服务恢复后各项指标随之恢复正常。从横向维度来看,与GPS相比,Galileo系统目前在卫星位置速度精度、卫星钟差精度方面已表现出优于GPS的性能,在空间信号测距误差（SISRE）方面,Galileo轨道精度具有明显优势,平均SISRE达到0.27 m。GPS与BDS相当,GPS平均SISRE达到0.61 m,BDS的3类卫星MEO、IGSO和GEO分别达到0.76、0.58和0.68 m;QZSS的IGSO和GEO卫星平均SISRE分别达到0.85和0.99 m。GLONASS轨道精度稍差,平均SISRE为1.05 m。     

SBAS星历改正数及UDRE参数生成算法分析

星基增强系统(satellite based augmentation system,SBAS)通过地球同步轨道卫星实时播发导航卫星星历改正数和完好性参数,以提升用户定位精度和完好性。采用最小方差法解算GPS星历改正数,利用卡方统计进行改正数完好性检核,并依据星历改正数方差-协方差信息计算SBAS用户差分距离误差(user differential range error,UDRE)和信息类型28(message type 28, MT28)等完好性参数。利用中国区域27个监测站的实测数据,首先以国际GNSS服务组织的精密轨道和钟差产品为参考解算星历改正数,结果表明,钟差改正精度优于0.1 m,轨道改正精度优于0.4 m;然后解算广播星历改正数,并生成UDRE和MT28参数,广播星历残余误差卡方检验值均小于告警门限,保证了改正数的完好性;最后利用生成的改正数进行SBAS定位解算,得到定位结果的水平精度优于0.7 m,垂直精度优于1.0 m,对比GPS单点定位,所提算法的水平和垂直方向精度分别提升了30%和40%。     

SBAS orbit and satellite clock corrections for precise point positioning

The quality of real-time GPS positions based on the method of precise point positioning (PPP) heavily depends on the availability and accuracy of GPS satellite orbits and satellite clock corrections. Satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) provide such corrections but they are actually intended to be used for wide area differential GPS with positioning results on the 1-m accuracy level. Nevertheless, carrier phase-based PPP is able to achieve much more accurate results with the same correction values. We applied SBAS corrections for dual-frequency PPP and compared the results with PPP obtained using other real-time correction data streams, for example, the GPS broadcast message and precise corrections from the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales and the German Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt. Among the three existing SBAS, the best results were achieved for the North American wide area augmentation system (WAAS): horizontal and vertical position accuracies were considerably smaller than 10 cm for static 24-h observation data sets and smaller than 30 cm for epoch-by-epoch solutions with 2 h of continuous observations. The European geostationary navigation overlay service and the Japanese multi-functional satellite augmentation system yield positioning results with biases of several tens of centimeters and variations larger by factors of 2–4 as compared to WAAS.     

Temporal impact of selected GPS errors on point positioning

This paper is aimed at investigating the stability of point positions over time in support of applications that require high position stability when differential GPS is not feasible. One such application is the use of a P3-Orion aircraft offshore for magnetic measurement in support of submarine detection. Temporal changes in several GPS errors lead to variability in the computed positions, so it is not the absolute errors, but rather their temporal variations that are of importance. Furthermore, the temporal variability of the different error sources may dictate a certain algorithm approach and processing strategy. This paper analyzes the temporal variations of the broadcast satellite clock model and orbit parameters, as well as ionospheric errors, because these will typically be the dominant errors for real-time point positioning. These three errors are analyzed independently. A tropospheric correction is applied when computing all of the position results, so the tropospheric error itself is not investigated. Satellite clock and orbit errors are analyzed by comparing broadcast and precise post-mission SV clock corrections and orbits. For the ionosphere, the effect is separated using dual-frequency data. The analysis comprises primarily of assessing error behaviors and magnitudes through time and frequency analyses. In this way, the differences in variability of the errors are easily determined. The effect of each error in the position domain is also investigated in addition to the combined effect. Results show that, on a typical day when single frequency data are processed with broadcast orbit and clock data, the root mean square (RMS) of the changes in the position errors over a 50-s interval is about 5.8 cm in northing, 4.0 in easting, and 11.0 cm in height. When using precise orbits and clocks, in addition to dual frequency data, these values improve by 46–56% to 2.7 cm in northing, 2.2 cm in easting, and 4.9 cm in height. Under severe ionospheric activity, the RMS of the errors decrease from 8.1 to 3.3 cm in northing, 5.7 to 2.6 cm in easting, and 17.0 to 4.9 cm in height, which are improvements of 54–71%. Electronic Publication     

GPS卫星广播星历轨道误差突变性分析

针对GPS卫星播发的广播星历存在误差突变的问题进行了有关研究。利用切比雪夫多项式,分别以不同的拟合时段计算卫星轨道坐标,然后分别与对应历元的IGS精密星历所提供的GPS卫星的坐标进行比较,发现了某些GPS卫星广播星历轨道误差变化的规律。这对如何削弱广播星历的轨道误差,提高导航与定位精度是十分有益的。     

GPS长距离和多测段定位中广播星历的改进方法

本文分析了广播星历误差对ＧＰＳ长基线和多测段定位结果的影响，由此提出了旨在减弱卫星轨道误差对于相对定位精度影响的一种简便而又实用的方法，即先按卫星运动的力学模型建立状态方程，其初始状态向量由某组广播星历得出，由每组广播星历建立观测方程，由数值积分得出的参考轨道由广播星历ｔｏｅ时刻的位置和速度观测值的最小二乘平差所得的改正后的轨道，不仅可消除各组广播星历间的不一致性，而且其精度也高于任何一组广播星历     

长距离GPS/BDS双系统网络RTK方法

基于区域参考站网的网络实时动态定位(real-time kinematic,RTK)方法是实现全球定位系统(global positioning system,GPS)、北斗卫星导航系统(BeiDou satellite navigation system,BDS)高精度定位的主要手段。研究了一种长距离GPS/BDS双系统网络RTK方法,首先采用长距离参考站网GPS/BDS多频观测数据确定宽巷整周模糊度,利用引入大气误差参数的参数估计模型解算GPS/BDS双差载波相位整周模糊度;然后按照长距离参考站网观测误差特性的不同,分类处理参考站观测误差,利用误差内插法计算流动站观测误差,以改正流动站GPS/BDS双系统载波相位观测值的观测误差;最后使用流动站多频载波相位整周模糊度解算方法确定GPS/BDS载波相位整周模糊度并解算位置参数。使用长距离连续运行参考站(continuously operating reference stations,CORS)网的实测数据进行实验,结果表明,该方法能够利用长距离GPS/BDS参考站网实现流动站的厘米级定位。     

风云三号D星天基BDS实时定位性能分析

随着北斗三号卫星导航系统(BeiDou navigation satellite system-3, BDS-3)开始向全球提供导航服务,独立使用BDS为在轨运行的卫星提供全球覆盖、全时段的定位服务成为可能。结合风云三号D星(FengYun-3D, FY-3D)全球卫星导航系统掩星探测仪(global navigation satellite system occultation sounder, GNOS)的真实在轨数据对天基BDS的定位性能进行了详细的分析。首先,使用BDS真实广播星历计算了在不同轨道高度下的可见卫星数和定位精度因子（position dilution of precision, PDOP）,并结合精密星历分析了广播星历的轨道误差、时钟误差及空间信号测距误差(signal-in-space range error, SISRE)。仿真结果表明,在95%的置信水平下,从地面到2 000 km的轨道高度,BDS在全球范围内最小可见卫星数为6,最大PDOP小于5,星座可用性已经达到100%,全球平均可见卫星数BDS比GPS(global positioning syste...     

基于单个GPS/BDS信标台增强的实时精密单点定位

随着IGS实时服务的推广,实时轨道、钟差产品可用于实时PPP;然而,在一些通讯条件差的地方,如偏远山区和广袤的海洋,差分信号的播发与接收仍然是实时PPP的障碍。文中提出一种基于单个GPS/BDS信标台的实时PPP定位方法:基站采用广播星历和无电离层伪距、相位观测值,实时估计耦合轨道、钟误差;单向通讯的方式播发给用户端,减小通讯量,提高用户端的定位性能。经过分别距参考站约200km和300km的流动站进行验证,通过约10~12min收敛,GPS/BDS组合可得到水平优于20cm的定位精度。本案验证了采用广播星历进行实时PPP的可行性,为海洋和偏远地区提供一种高精度定位方法。     

Polynomial interpolation of GPS satellite coordinates

This article describes an algorithm for polynomial interpolation of GPS satellite coordinates and its implementation in MATLAB. The algorithm is intended for real-time processing software and computes the position and velocity of GPS satellites from both broadcast and precise ephemerides. Tests with different orders of polynomials, and with different time spans used for polynomial fitting, show suitable settings with respect to the required interpolation precision.     

Optimal design of broadcast ephemeris parameters for a navigation satellite system

Computation of broadcast ephemerides is a fundamental task in satellite navigation and positioning. The GPS constellation is composed of medium-earth-orbit (MEO) satellites, and therefore can employ a uniform parameter set to produce broadcast ephemerides. However, other navigation satellite systems such as Compass and IRNSS may include a mixture of inclined-geosynchronous-orbit (IGSO), geostationary-earth-orbit (GEO) and MEO satellites, requiring different parameter sets for each type of orbit. We analyze the variational characteristics of satellite ephemerides with respect to orbital elements; then present a method to design an optimal parameter set for broadcast ephemerides, and derive the parameter sets for IGSO, GEO, and MEO satellites. The computational complexities of the user algorithms for the optimal parameter sets are equivalent to that of the standard GPS user algorithm. Simulation and statistical analyses indicate that the optimal parameter set is $ \left\{ {\sqrt {A_{0} } ,e_{0} ,i_{0} ,\Upomega_{0} ,M_{0} ,\omega_{0} ,\dot{\Upomega },\dot{u},\dot{i},C_{\Upomega c3} ,C_{\Upomega s3} ,C_{uc2} ,C_{us2} ,C_{rc2} ,C_{rs2} } \right\} $ for IGSO and GEO satellites, and $ \left\{ {\sqrt {A_{0} } ,e_{0} ,i_{0} ,\Upomega_{0} ,M_{0} ,\omega_{0} ,\dot{\Upomega },\dot{u},\dot{i},C_{uc2} ,C_{us2} ,C_{rc2} ,C_{rs2} ,C_{ic2} ,C_{is2} } \right\} $ for MEO satellites.     

GNSS广播星历的精度评定

由于卫星广播星历有能被用户实时观测到的特点,因此为导航和实时定位提供了方便。精密星历是高精度的事后星历,而广播星历是由全球定位系统的地面控制部分所确定和提供,并经过卫星向全球用户公开播发的一种预报星历。本文选取了GPS和GLONASS卫星系统,并对GPS和GLONASS广播星历与精密星历计算的卫星位置对比分析,最后得出广播星历的精度与卫星和原子钟的类型有关的结论。     

北斗导航卫星相位中心修正

北斗卫星导航系统（BeiDou navigation satellite system,BDS）发播电文时利用卫星钟差a₀参数修正了B3频点相位中心与质心差异的大部分偏差,利用卫星群延时间参数（timing group delay,Tgd）修正不同频点相位中心的差异部分。该方法实质是利用各向同性的卫星钟差修正具有各向异性的天线相位中心偏差,改正精度有限。为进一步提高广播星历精度,提出了先对卫星位置进行相位中心改正,再对相位中心的轨迹进行广播星历拟合的处理方法,分别比较了两种改正方法对用户距离误差（user range error,URE）以及精密单点定位精度的影响。分析表明,两种方法都能使URE和定位精度得到提高,且新方法比利用卫星钟差a₀参数的修正精度提高了约76%,定位精度提高了约12.5%,同时新方法的改正精度不受时空因素影响。利用广播星历拟合修正天线相位中心与不进行天线相位中心比较,定位精度提高约38.1%。最后分析了Tgd参数修正各频点天线相位中心不一致的残差,影响在毫米级,可以用于修正相位中心的频间差异。