中国西部现今地壳形变与地震活动特征

以1999-2004年间中国西部地区近650个GPS站点的观测资料为基础,采用二维“高张力样条”函数内插算法获得了连续地壳形变场。结果表明,相对于稳定欧亚参考框架,中国西部现今地壳运动西强东弱,北向运动从西向东逐渐减弱,东向运动逐渐增强,青藏高原东缘及附近地区是东向运动的消减区带;主应变从西向东由压缩应变转变为拉伸应变;最大剪应变主要位于喜马拉雅地块及其东部地区;中国西部地区地震活动在空间分布上似乎集中发生在印度板块北东向挤压欧亚板块的两条共扼带内,与地壳形变场有一定对应关系,地壳形变的高应变率区为中强地震多发地带。     

基于多基站网络的VRS差分改正信息的方法分析

基于虚拟参考站VRS(Virtual Reference Stations)的GPS测量技术是近几年应用在网络RTK中的热门技术,文中首先介绍VRS的基本原理,然后利用站际星际二次差分技术,推导虚拟观测值,最后讨论研究虚拟参考站的双差改正数的内插算法。     

小波技术在GPS基线解算数据预处理中的应用

采用小波技术对GPS观测数据进行处理。应用小波变换技术对GPS相位观测值进行周跳的探测和修复。GPS相位观测值可以作为时间序列来进行分析,作为时间函数,它所表现出来的是一条光滑度很好的曲线,一旦出现周跳,这种光滑性就被破坏,从发生周跳的历元开始,后继相位观测值序列发生等量阶跃,通过小波变换的信号特性检测原理,能够有效地探测出周跳的发生,这种方法对于缩小模糊度搜索空间及提高模糊度解的有效性有明显的作用,从而提高基线解算的精度。     

基于GPS数据的浑河断裂带抚顺市区段现今活动性定量分析

浑河断裂带是深大断裂-郯庐断裂的北延分支,横贯抚顺市区,在断裂带之上及其两侧建有诸多大型工矿企业及民用建筑,断裂带的稳定与否关系到抚顺市的城市安全。近期,浑河断裂带抚顺市区段的个别次级断裂发生活动,并已造成严重的城市建筑破坏。局部断裂活动的成因,为城市决策者所关注。本文利用抚顺市城市平面控制网相隔17a的两期GPS测量数据,应用大地形变分析的理论方法,对浑河断裂带抚顺市区段的稳定性进行了定量分析,得出结论:浑河断裂带抚顺市区段的宏观地质构造在此期间活动性不明显。     

基于GPS的四川地区现时地壳形变分析

对四川区域网多年数据进行处理,得到欧亚框架下的测站运动速度,采用刚性地块假设下的最小二乘拟合方法,得到川滇、川青、扬子地块的运动速度分别为(17.6±1.0)mm/a、(11.4±0.7)mm/a、(9.6±1.1)mm/a,地块运动方向逐渐由SE向SEE变化;作为川滇地块东边界的鲜水河断裂、安宁河-则木河断裂运动速度远大于龙门山断裂,显示了其较强的活动性。     

Bringing GPS into harsh environments for fully automated deformation monitoring

Engineering projects that require deformation monitoring frequently utilize geodetic sensors to measure displacements of target points located in the deformation zone. In situations where control stations and targets are separated by a kilometer or more, GPS can offer higher precision position updates at more frequent intervals than can normally be achieved using total station technology. For large-scale deformation projects requiring the highest precision, it is therefore advisable to use a combination of the two sensors. In response to the need for high precision, continuous GPS position updates in harsh deformation monitoring environments, a software has been developed that employs triple-differenced carrier-phase measurements in a delayed-state Kalman filter. Two data sets were analyzed to test the capabilities of the software. In the first test, a GPS antenna was displaced using a translation stage to mimic slow deformation. In the second test, data collected at a large open pit mine were processed. It was shown that the delayed-state Kalman filter developed could detect millimeter-level displacements of a GPS antenna. The actual precision attained depends upon the amount of process noise infused at each epoch to accommodate the antenna displacements. Higher process noise values result in quicker detection times, but at the same time increase the noise in the solutions. A slow, 25 mm displacement was detected within 30 min of the full displacement with sigma values in E, N and U of ±10 mm or better. The same displacement could also be detected in less than 5 h with sigma values in E, N and U of ±5 mm or better. The software works best for detecting long period deformations (e.g., 20 mm per day or less) for which sigma values of 1–2 mm are attained in all three solution components. It was also shown that the triple-differenced carrier-phase observation can be used to significantly reduce the effects of residual tropospheric delay that would normally plague double-differenced observations in harsh GPS environments.

Spin rate estimation of sounding rockets using GPS wind-up

Carrier phase wind-up is a well-known effect that arises from the relative rotation between a transmitting and receiving antenna. In GPS measurements at L1 frequency, this effect translates into an error of 19.029 cm per full relative rotation of antennas. Since this effect is independent of the satellite elevation for pure rotation about the antenna boresight axis, it is usually absorbed by the clock estimation in navigation algorithms. Therefore, the impact of wind-up is usually neglected for applications that do not require accuracies to the cm level like RTK. However, in receiving platforms with high rotation rate, the accumulated wind-up value can be important and actually be larger than receiver noise or even ionospheric variations. Therefore, in such scenarios, the wind-up contribution can be isolated and used as a source of information to compute the spin rate of such platforms using an appropriate combination of GPS observables. This work shows some results of a coarse, yet simple, approach to monitor the rotation angle and spin-rate of spin stabilized sounding rockets flown by DLR.     

Using GPS multipath to measure soil moisture fluctuations: initial results

Measurements of soil moisture are important for studies of climate and weather forecasting, flood prediction, and aquifer recharge studies. Although soil moisture measurement networks exist, most are sparsely distributed and lack standardized instrumentation. Measurements of soil moisture from satellites have extremely large spatial footprints (40–60 km). A methodology is described here that uses existing networks of continuously-operating GPS receivers to measure soil moisture fluctuations. In this technique, incoming signals are reflected off and attenuated by the ground before reception by the GPS receiver. These multipath reflections directly affect signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data routinely collected by GPS receivers, creating amplitude variations that are a function of ground reflectivity and therefore soil moisture content. After describing this technique, multipath reflection amplitudes at a GPS site in Tashkent, Uzbekistan are compared to estimates of soil moisture from the Noah land surface model. Although the GPS multipath amplitudes and the land surface model are uncalibrated, over the 70-day period studied, they both rise sharply following each rainfall event and slowly decrease over a period of ∼10 days.     

GPS signal acquisition using the repeatability of successive code phase measurements

This paper introduces a new method for GPS signal acquisition, which is based on the repeatability of successive code phase measurements and the M-of-N search algorithm. The performance of the proposed method in terms of probability of signal detection is similar to that of traditional methods, except that the calculation of the probability of detection does not rely on the noise distribution or the Carrier-to-Noise ratio (C/N₀). The code phase repeatability-based method is presented along with equations for probability of detection and probability of false detection. If the distribution of the noise is known, it also provides an estimate of the C/N₀. The proposed method is illustrated for coherent and non-coherent acquisition and C/N₀ estimation.     

公交车站台智能显示牌系统设计与实现——以南充市的一个站台为例

介绍了一种基于GIS/GPS/GSM技术的实时显示公交车运动状态和时间的电子显示牌设计方案。以南充市为例,在利用GPS系统对车辆精确定位的基础上,采用GSM无线通讯网关实现消息的传输,并在电子地图上实时的显示出公交车辆的位置、状态和各路公交车到达客人所在目的站点所需用的时间,方便人们更有效快捷地选择交通工具。本文重点分析了系统的各组成部分的功能和实现方式,最后采用VC++6.0和MapXtreme2004开发实现了该系统。