Accuracy assessment of the GPS-based slant total electron content |
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Authors: | Claudio Brunini Francisco Javier Azpilicueta |
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Institution: | (1) Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, 1900 La Plata, Argentina;(2) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Abstract: | The main scope of this research is to assess the ultimate accuracy that can be achieved for the slant total electron content
(sTEC) estimated from dual-frequency global positioning system (GPS) observations which depends, primarily, on the calibration
of the inter-frequency biases (IFB). Two different calibration approaches are analyzed: the so-called satellite-by-satellite
one, which involves levelling the carrier-phase to the code-delay GPS observations and then the IFB estimation; and the so-called
arc-by-arc one, which avoids the use of code-delay observations but requires the estimation of arc-dependent biases. Two strategies
are used for the analysis: the first one compares calibrated sTEC from two co-located GPS receivers that serve to assess the
levelling errors; and the second one, assesses the model error using synthetic data free of calibration error, produced with
a specially developed technique. The results show that the arc-by-arc calibration technique performs better than the satellite-by-satellite
one for mid-latitudes, while the opposite happens for low-latitudes. |
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Keywords: | GPS Slant total electron content (sTEC) Inter-frequency biases (IFB) sTEC calibration |
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