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.     

基于不同GCP数量和获取方法的数字正射影像的制作与评定

SPOT-5影像的高分辨率和高信息量的性质,使其得到了广泛的应用,特别是在全国第二次土地利用调查中得到了更加深入的应用。而数字正射影像的制作是SPOT-5遥感影像应用的关键所在。本文在介绍DOM制作的基础上,依据当前获取GCP主要的三种途径采用ERDAS遥感图像处理软件进行了实验,并对最终的结果精度进行分析,总结了DOM制作过程的相关问题。     

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。     

地理信息服务中数据传输性能分析

地理信息服务系统具有数据密集型和计算密集型的特点,对网络环境的设置有着特殊的需求。本文从地理信息服务系统中对数据传输应用的角度出发,从网络数据传输协议的传输层和应用层两个层次分析地理信息服务系统应用的特殊性,并根据系统应用的特殊需求提出相应的解决方案,提高整个应用系统中各类数据传输的效率、性能和系统运行的稳定性,提高地理信息服务系统为多用户提供地图服务、位置服务以及各种应用服务的综合能力。提高系统适应多用户并发访问海量数据的地图服务作业和频繁访问实效性很强的位置服务作业的能力。     

GPS伪卫星的组合定位技术及其误差分析

介绍了GPS伪卫星组合定位的观测模型,详细论述了GPS伪卫星组合定位中存在的误差源,并对各误差源的消除方法进行了分析。