北斗广域差分分区综合改正数定位性能分析

目前北斗广域分米级星基增强系统在钟差改正数、轨道改正数的基础上,提出了基于相位观测值的分区综合改正数,介绍了分区综合改正数的概念及单频、双频用户的使用方法与定位模型。利用中国范围不同地区的北斗观测数据和对应的分区综合改正信息,统计了单频和双频用户分区综合改正精密单点定位的精度,并对其收敛性进行了分析。通过与使用GFZ提供的北斗超快速精密星历的定位效果比较,验证了分区综合改正定位在实时定位中的优势。在此基础上进一步对中国范围内分区综合改正定位效果与分区中心距离的关系进行了分析,并对不同观测时间长度的定位效果进行比较。结果表明,经分区综合改正后的双频用户平均25 min内动态定位三维误差能收敛至0.5 m以内,收敛后的定位精度为水平0.15 m,高程0.2 m;单频用户平均20 min内动态定位三维误差能收敛至0.8 m以内,收敛后的定位精度为水平0.3 m,高程0.5 m。随着用户站距离分区中心越远,定位效果总体呈现变差的趋势。总体上,当用户在分区中心1 000 km范围内时,北斗广域分区综合改正数将能提供实时分米级定位服务。     

北斗/GPS实时精密卫星钟差融合解算模型及精度分析

实时GNSS精密单点定位(PPP)技术必须使用实时的高精度卫星精密轨道和钟差。本文研究了精密卫星钟差融合解算模型及策略,并利用滤波算法实现了北斗/GPS实时精密卫星钟差融合估计算法。仿真实时试验结果显示:获得的北斗/GPS实时钟差与GFZ事后多GNSS精密钟差(GBM)的标准差在0.15 ns左右;使用该钟差进行GPS动态PPP试验,收敛后水平精度优于5 cm,高程精度优于10 cm;使用仿真实时钟差进行的北斗动态PPP与使用GFZ事后多GNSS精密钟差开展的试验相比精度相当,可实现分米级定位。     

北斗卫星精密轨道与钟差精度分析

针对北斗卫星导航系统的卫星姿态模型、天线相位中心改正及卫星定轨数据处理策略未统一的现状,该文对比分析了武汉大学和德国地学研究中心提供的北斗事后精密轨道和钟差产品的差异及精度,结合实测数据,通过分析精密单点定位的定位精度来比较两中心精密轨道和钟差的差异。实验结果表明:北斗卫星的精密轨道精度与轨道类型有关,地球静止轨道(GEO)卫星的轨道精度为米级,倾斜地球同步轨道(IGSO)卫星的轨道精度为分米级,中地球轨道(MEO)卫星切向、法向和径向的精度分别为10.81、5.41和3.37cm;GEO卫星钟差精度优于0.38ns,IGSO卫星钟差优于0.25ns,MEO卫星钟差优于0.15ns;两家分析中心产品的北斗静态精密单点定位的平面精度相当;北斗静态精密单点定位的RMS统计值平面精度优于3cm,三维精度优于7cm。     

BDS-3实时精密产品质量评估及其PPP性能分析

随着北斗三号全球卫星导航系统的正式开通,各数据分析中心陆续开始提供北斗三号系统的实时精密产品,使基于北斗三号的实时精密单点定位(PPP)成为可能.实时精密产品质量是影响实时PPP定位性能的重要因素,直接决定了实时PPP的可用性、收敛时间和定位精度.为了促进基于北斗三号的实时PPP的研究和应用发展,本文对现有的北斗三号实...     

An approach to GPS clock prediction for real-time PPP during outages of RTS stream

The international GNSS service (IGS) has been providing an open-access real-time service (RTS) since 2013, which allows users to carry out real-time precise point positioning (RT-PPP). As the availability of RTS products is vital for RT-PPP, a disruption in receiving RTS products will be a concern. Currently, the IGS Ultra-rapid (IGU) orbit is accurate enough to be used as an alternative orbit for RTS during RTS outages, while the precision of the IGU predicted clock offsets is far below that of the RTS clock product. The existing clock prediction methods based on received RTS clock data will not work well if the discontinuity arises shortly after the start of the RT-PPP processing due to the lack of RTS clock data to fit the prediction model or to predict clock offsets at a high precision. Even if there is a sufficient amount of RTS clock data available, saving large amounts of RTS clock data would also use processor memory. An alternate approach for GPS clock prediction is proposed. The prediction model, composed of linear polynomial and sinusoidal terms, is similar to those used by the precious methods. The main innovation is the determination of the model coefficients: coefficients of linear and sinusoidal terms are estimated with the epoch-differenced clock offsets from the IGU observed part, while the constant coefficient is computed with the latest RTS clock corrections. There is no need to save the received RTS clock corrections, and clock prediction can be carried out even with only one epoch of RTS data. Evaluation of the proposed method shows that the predicted clock offsets within a short period of prediction time, e.g., 5 min, are slightly worse than RTS clock data. Even when the predicted time reaches up to 1 h, the precision of the predicted clock offsets is still higher than that of IGU predicted clock offsets by about 50%.     

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。     

Joint estimation of GPS/BDS real-time clocks and initial results

We present the joint estimation model for Global Positioning System/BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (GPS/BDS) real-time clocks and present the initial satellite clock solutions determined from 106 stations of the international GNSS service multi-GNSS experiment and the BeiDou experimental tracking stations networks for 1 month in December, 2012. The model is shown to be efficient enough to have no practical computational limit for producing 1-Hz clock updates for real-time applications. The estimated clocks were assessed through the comparison with final clock products and the analysis of post-fit residuals. Using the estimated clocks and corresponding orbit products (GPS ultra-rapid-predicted and BDS final orbits), the root-mean-square (RMS) values of coordinate differences from ground truth values are around 1 and 2–3 cm for GPS-only and BDS-only daily mean static precise point positioning (PPP) solutions, respectively. Accuracy of GPS/BDS combined static PPP solutions falls in between that of GPS-only and BDS-only PPP results, with RMS values approximately 1–2 cm in all three components. For static sites, processed in the kinematic PPP mode, the daily RMS values are normally within 4 and 6 cm after convergence for GPS-only and BDS-only results, respectively. In contrast, the combined GPS/BDS kinematic PPP solutions show higher accuracy and shorter convergence time. Additionally, the BDS-only kinematic PPP solutions using clock products derived from the proposed joint estimation model were superior compared to those computed using the single-system estimation model.     

天线相位中心改正对BDS二代卫星精密定位的影响分析

精确改正卫星端PCO/PCV偏差是实现精密单点定位的重要前提。本文对目前多家分析中心提供的不同的BDS二代卫星端PCO/PCV改正值进行了PPP定位精度评估,评估过程中选取了15个MGEX测站,设计4套方案分别处理了静态PPP和动态PPP。结果表明：①BDS 3类不同结构类型的卫星端PCV改正值在视线距离上引起的误差最大可达10 cm,必须加以改正;②当使用同一分析中心的精密产品和PCO/PCV改正值时,其坐标残差较小、收敛速度较快,收敛后N、E、U 3个方向的坐标定位精度较高;③当使用ESA的精密轨道和钟差进行PPP解算时,整体上的动态定位残差RMS最低,动态定位效果最好,相对于使用IGS的PCO/PCV,其在E、N、U方向提高率分别约为31%、20%和9%。本文对高精度动、静态导航和定位的参数模型选取具有一定的参考价值。     

Real-time clock offset prediction with an improved model

The GPS orbit precision of the IGS ultra-rapid predicted (IGU-P) products has been remarkably improved since 2007. However, the satellite clock offsets of the IGU-P products have not shown sufficient high-quality prediction to achieve sub-decimeter precision in real-time precise point positioning (RTPPP), being at the level of 1–3 ns (30–90 cm) RMS in recent years. An improved prediction model for satellite clocks is proposed in order to enhance the precision of predicted clock offsets. First, the proposed prediction model adds a few cyclic terms to absorb the periodic effects, and a time adaptive function is used to adjust the weight of the observation in the prediction model. Second, initial deviations of the predictions are reduced by using a recomputed constant term. The simulation results have shown that the proposed prediction model can give a better performance than the IGU-P clock products and can achieve precision better than 0.55 ns (16.5 cm) in real-time predictions. In addition, the RTPPP method was chosen to test the efficiency of the new model for real-time static and kinematic positioning. The numerical examples using the data set of 140 IGS stations show that the static RTPPP precision based on the proposed clock model has been improved about 22.8 and 41.5 % in the east and height components compared to the IGU-P clock products, while the precisions in the north components are the equal. The kinematic example using three IGS stations shows that the kinematic RTPPP precision based on the proposed clock model has improved about 30, 72 and 44 % in the east, north and height components.     

Real-time precise point positioning regional augmentation for large GPS reference networks

An increasing number of GNSS reference stations are installed around the world to provide real-time precise positioning services. In most of the current services, a full network solution is required for the precise determination of biases. Such a network solution is time consuming and difficult to achieve for very large regions such as Europe or China. Therefore, we developed a multi-layer processing scheme for precise point positioning (PPP) regional augmentation to avoid processing large networks. Furthermore, we use L1 and L2 raw observations and estimate atmospheric delays, which were properly constrained to the atmospheric corrections derived from the reference stations. Therefore, inaccurate representation of atmospheric delays due to temporal and/or spatial atmospheric fluctuations in the processing can be compensated. The proposed scheme of PPP regional augmentation was implemented into the operational real-time PPP service system at GFZ for validation. The real-time orbit and clock corrections, the uncalibrated phase delays, and regional augmentation corrections are generated by this system. The augmentation corrections from the regional network are investigated and the positioning performance in terms of positioning accuracy and time for fixed solution is demonstrated in real-time. Our results indicate that a reliable fixing is possible after 5 s on average. The positioning accuracy is about 12, 10, and 25 mm in east, north, and vertical direction, respectively.     

不同卫星天线参数对BDS定轨定位精度的影响

论证了BDS精密单点定位时卫星天线参数与卫星轨道、钟差产品保持一致的必要性。基于4组不同卫星天线参数BDS精密定轨RTN3方向内符合精度,GEO卫星均在9.3、18.6、11.5cm左右,IGSO卫星均在1.7、4.2、2.7cm左右,MEO卫星均在2.1、5.1、4.8cm左右,在R方向的差异小于5mm,在TN方向的差异最大为2.4cm;定轨结果与GFZ的事后精密产品比较,RTN3方向外符合精度差异较明显,排除GEO卫星因定轨策略与GFZ差异较大的因素,IGSO和MEO外符合精度ESA和WHU相近,RTN3方向均在10cm以内,各分量上优于IGS和EST 1~10cm,其中TN方向差异最显著。在保持BDS PPP使用的卫星天线参数与卫星轨道、钟差产品一致的前提下,4组卫星天线参数定位精度相近,其中静态定位最后一个历元水平和高程方向坐标偏差均在5cm以内,动态定位收敛后坐标偏差RMS水平方向在10cm以内、高程方向在15cm以内;使用ESA和WHU天线参数动态定位平均收敛时间在46min左右,IGS和EST天线参数动态定位平均收敛时间在56min左右,略差于基于GFZ事后产品的收敛时间,其平均收敛时间在34min左右。     

GPS/GLONASS组合精密单点定位研究

讨论了GPS/GLONASS组合精密单点定位的数学模型,并以IRKJ跟踪站的观测数据为例,分别利用GPS和GPS/GLONASS组合两种方式进行精密单点定位解算。计算结果表明,当GPS观测卫星数较多(9~10颗)时,组合GPS/GLONASS较单系统GPS的精密单点定位精度及收敛速度有一定改善,但效果不明显。当GPS卫星数较少(4~5颗)时,引入GLONASS卫星进行GPS/GLONASS组合精密单点定位,其定位精度及收敛速度较单系统GPS精密单点均有显著改善。     

精密卫星钟差加密方法及其对星载GPS低轨卫星定轨精度影响

系统分析、比较了几种精密卫星钟差加密方法，研究了利用全球分布的IGS永久跟踪站的GPS观测数据估计高采样率卫星钟差参数的原理与方法，并将各种卫星钟差加密方法得到的结果与IGS数据分析中心估计的卫星钟差结果相比较。最后将不同加密方法得出的精密卫星钟差结果用于基于星载GPS双频非差观测值的CHAMP低轨卫星的定轨，并将不同方法得到的定轨精度进行比较。结果表明，利用地面跟踪站的GPS观测数据，可高精度、高密度地估计GPS卫星钟差，估计精度可达0．1～0．5ns。经地面GPS跟踪站数据估计的GPS卫星钟差，应用于基于PPP方法的低轨卫星定轨，其定轨精度在10cm以内。     

Real-Time Precise Point Positioning (RTPPP) with raw observations and its application in real-time regional ionospheric VTEC modeling

Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is an absolute positioning technology mainly used in post data processing. With the continuously increasing demand for real-time high-precision applications in positioning, timing, retrieval of atmospheric parameters, etc., Real-Time PPP (RTPPP) and its applications have drawn more and more research attention in recent years. This study focuses on the models, algorithms and ionospheric applications of RTPPP on the basis of raw observations, in which high-precision slant ionospheric delays are estimated among others in real time. For this purpose, a robust processing strategy for multi-station RTPPP with raw observations has been proposed and realized, in which real-time data streams and State-Space-Representative (SSR) satellite orbit and clock corrections are used. With the RTPPP-derived slant ionospheric delays from a regional network, a real-time regional ionospheric Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) modeling method is proposed based on Adjusted Spherical Harmonic Functions and a Moving-Window Filter. SSR satellite orbit and clock corrections from different IGS analysis centers are evaluated. Ten globally distributed real-time stations are used to evaluate the positioning performances of the proposed RTPPP algorithms in both static and kinematic modes. RMS values of positioning errors in static/kinematic mode are 5.2/15.5, 4.7/17.4 and 12.8/46.6 mm, for north, east and up components, respectively. Real-time slant ionospheric delays from RTPPP are compared with those from the traditional Carrier-to-Code Leveling (CCL) method, in terms of function model, formal precision and between-receiver differences of short baseline. Results show that slant ionospheric delays from RTPPP are more precise and have a much better convergence performance than those from the CCL method in real-time processing. 30 real-time stations from the Asia-Pacific Reference Frame network are used to model the ionospheric VTECs over Australia in real time, with slant ionospheric delays from both RTPPP and CCL methods for comparison. RMS of the VTEC differences between RTPPP/CCL method and CODE final products is 0.91/1.09 TECU, and RMS of the VTEC differences between RTPPP and CCL methods is 0.67 TECU. Slant Total Electron Contents retrieved from different VTEC models are also validated with epoch-differenced Geometry-Free combinations of dual-frequency phase observations, and mean RMS values are 2.14, 2.33 and 2.07 TECU for RTPPP method, CCL method and CODE final products, respectively. This shows the superiority of RTPPP-derived slant ionospheric delays in real-time ionospheric VTEC modeling.     

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.     

BDS/GPS精密单点定位收敛时间与定位精度的比较

采用武汉大学卫星导航定位技术研究中心发布的北斗精密卫星轨道和钟差,在TriP 2.0软件的基础上实现了BDS PPP定位算法,并利用大量实测数据进行了BDS/GPS静态PPP和动态PPP浮点解试验。结果表明,BDS静态PPP的收敛时间约为80min,动态PPP的收敛时间为100min;对于3h的观测数据,静态PPP收敛后定位精度优于5cm,动态PPP收敛后水平方向优于8cm,高程方向约12cm;与GPS PPP类似,东分量上定位精度较北分量稍差。当前由于BDS的全球跟踪站有限,精密轨道和钟差精度不如GPS,因此BDS PPP的收敛时间较GPS长,但收敛后可实现厘米至分米级的绝对定位。     

一种基于IGS超快星历的区域性实时精密单点定位方法

实时GPS精密单点定位需要实时的卫星轨道和钟差产品,为此提出一种利用区域GPS连续运行参考站和IGS发布的IGU超快轨道进行实时精密单点定位的方法.该方法首先利用连续运行参考站观测数据与IGU超快轨道预报部分进行实时GPS卫星钟差的估计,然后利用估计得到的实时GPS卫星钟差产品和IGU超快轨道预报部分,进行用户GPS接...     

广义延拓插值法在IGS精密钟差插值中的应用

针对精密单点定位中内插精密卫星钟差的需要,本文利用广义延拓插值法对IGS精密卫星钟差进行插值,探讨广义延拓插值数学模型中单元域节点、延拓域节点、逼近函数项数三个参数与插值精度之间的关系,并与传统经典的Lagrange多项式插值法进行比较分析,实际算例表明,只要选取适当的参数,广义延拓插值法可以拥有比Lagrange多项式插值法更高的精度。     

高性能原子钟钟差建模及其在精密单点定位中的应用

鉴于当前许多IGS跟踪站均配置有高性能原子钟的现状,本文首先采用修正Allan方差法分析了不同IGS跟踪站的接收机钟随机噪声的时域特性,进而评估了不同类型接收机的短期稳定度及钟差建模的可行性,然后利用IGS站配有氢原子钟的观测数据,在精密单点定位算法中,通过对钟差参数进行短时建模约束接收机钟差的随机变化,进而改进精密单点定位(PPP)的定位性能。试验结果表明钟差建模方法显著降低了高程分量参数、天顶对流层延迟参数与接收机钟差参数之间的相关性,GNSS高程分量的精度可提高50%。该方法对于提升PPP技术在地壳形变监测、低轨卫星定轨、水汽监测及预报等高精度GNSS地学领域的应用水平具有一定意义。     

远海实时GPS潮汐的实时精密单点定位观测

针对传统事后精密单点定位技术的时间延迟问题,该文基于IGS RTS实时数据流产品,开展了实时精密单点定位技术在远海实时GPS验潮中的应用研究.对RTS改正的实时精密卫星轨道和钟差进行了精度验证和分析,给出了RT-PPP的数据处理策略以及实时GPS验潮的基本流程;组织和实施了渤海湾船载GPS验潮试验,以压力式验潮仪数据为参考,对远距离实时GPS潮汐测量结果进行了精度分析.结果表明:①以IGS最终卫星轨道和钟差产品为参考,RTS实时精密卫星轨道在X、y、Z方向的精度(RMS)均优于3 cm,卫星钟差的精度优于0.15 ns;②采用傅里叶低通滤波方法,消除波浪对潮汐观测的影响,进一步提取潮位信息.在忽略船体姿态改正的情况下,实时精密单点定位验潮相对于压力式验潮仪结果的最大偏差优于20 cm,RMS达到7.5 cm.