First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy

Over the past 18 months, a team in the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, has been researching the optimum configurations to achieve long-range and precise GPS-based aircraft positioning for subsequent airborne mapping projects. Three parallel strategies...

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Main Authors: Castleden, James, Hu, Guorong, Abbey, D., Weihing, D., Ovstedal, O., Earls, C., Featherstone, Will
Format: Journal Article
Published: International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) 2005
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Online Access:http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/wang/jgps/v3n12/index_v3n12.htm
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23353
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author Castleden, James
Hu, Guorong
Abbey, D.
Weihing, D.
Ovstedal, O.
Earls, C.
Featherstone, Will
author_facet Castleden, James
Hu, Guorong
Abbey, D.
Weihing, D.
Ovstedal, O.
Earls, C.
Featherstone, Will
author_sort Castleden, James
building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Over the past 18 months, a team in the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, has been researching the optimum configurations to achieve long-range and precise GPS-based aircraft positioning for subsequent airborne mapping projects. Three parallel strategies have been adopted to solve this problem: virtual reference stations (VRS), precise point positioning (PPP), and multiple reference stations (MRS). This paper briefly summarises the concepts behind the PPP and VRS techniques, describes the development and testing of in-house software, and presents the latest experimental results of our research. Current comparisons of the PPP and VRS techniques with an independently well-controlled aircraft trajectory and ground-based stations in Norway show that each deliver precisions of around 3 cm. However, the implementation of more sophisticated error modelling strategies in the MRS approach is expected to better deliver our project’s objectives.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-233532017-01-30T12:36:51Z First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy Castleden, James Hu, Guorong Abbey, D. Weihing, D. Ovstedal, O. Earls, C. Featherstone, Will kinematic positioning VRS PPP GPS Over the past 18 months, a team in the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, has been researching the optimum configurations to achieve long-range and precise GPS-based aircraft positioning for subsequent airborne mapping projects. Three parallel strategies have been adopted to solve this problem: virtual reference stations (VRS), precise point positioning (PPP), and multiple reference stations (MRS). This paper briefly summarises the concepts behind the PPP and VRS techniques, describes the development and testing of in-house software, and presents the latest experimental results of our research. Current comparisons of the PPP and VRS techniques with an independently well-controlled aircraft trajectory and ground-based stations in Norway show that each deliver precisions of around 3 cm. However, the implementation of more sophisticated error modelling strategies in the MRS approach is expected to better deliver our project’s objectives. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23353 http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/wang/jgps/v3n12/index_v3n12.htm International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) restricted
spellingShingle kinematic positioning
VRS
PPP
GPS
Castleden, James
Hu, Guorong
Abbey, D.
Weihing, D.
Ovstedal, O.
Earls, C.
Featherstone, Will
First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy
title First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy
title_full First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy
title_fullStr First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy
title_full_unstemmed First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy
title_short First Results from Virtual Reference Station (VRS) and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) GPS Research at the Western Australian Centre for Geodesy
title_sort first results from virtual reference station (vrs) and precise point positioning (ppp) gps research at the western australian centre for geodesy
topic kinematic positioning
VRS
PPP
GPS
url http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/wang/jgps/v3n12/index_v3n12.htm
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23353