Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Real-time orbit and clock corrections to GPS broadcast ephemeris, in short broadcast corrections (BCs), have become available as International GNSS Service (IGS) products through the IGS Real-time Service (RTS) in 2013. The BCs are distributed vi...

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Main Authors: Huisman, L., Teunissen, Peter
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FF0883188
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25198
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Teunissen, Peter
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description © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Real-time orbit and clock corrections to GPS broadcast ephemeris, in short broadcast corrections (BCs), have become available as International GNSS Service (IGS) products through the IGS Real-time Service (RTS) in 2013. The BCs are distributed via the Network Transport of RTCMby Internet Protocol (NTRIP) according to RTCMState Space Representation standards. When applying the BCs in real-time Precise Point Positioning (PPP), user positions with sub-decimetre precision after convergence can be obtained. The IGS BCs refer to the International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2008 (ITRF2008). BCs in regional reference frames (RBCs) are available through regional NTRIP broadcasters in Europe, North-America, South-America and Australia. The IGS RTS website states that: Applying orbit and clock corrections from regional product streams in a real-time PPP solution automatically leads to regional coordinates. The PPP client would not need to transform coordinates because that is already done on the server side. However, in contrast to the PPP-approach that uses BCs in ITRF2008 followed by a transformation to the local datum, the approach based on RBCs causes a bias in the PPP solution due to the scale factor between regional and global reference frames. This scale induced bias is satellite geometry dependent when the conventional 14-parameter transformation from the global to the regional reference frame is applied to the satellite position vectors in ITRF2008, to derive the RBCs from the IGS BCs. The size of the scale induced bias is significant. The bias is up to 8 cm for the Australian GDA94 and up to 0.5 cm for the North American NAD83. Currently an additional satellite position dependent value is added to the satellite clock correction to deal with the scale induced biases of three RBCs, resulting in a transformed clock correction (Weber, BKG Ntrip Client (BNC) Version 2.9 – Manual, 2013). Applying these transformed clocks results in a remaining scale induced bias of less then 10mm for each RBC of ETRF2000, NAD83 and SIRGAS2000. For GDA94 the remaining scale induced bias is maximum 30 mm, this is caused by the large scale factor of GDA94 compared to other regional reference frames. This contribution will show that the remaining bias in the PPP solution is practically independent from satellite geometry and depends mainly on the user position; hence the remaining bias can be predicted and corrected for at any location.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-251982017-09-13T15:19:35Z Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections Huisman, L. Teunissen, Peter © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Real-time orbit and clock corrections to GPS broadcast ephemeris, in short broadcast corrections (BCs), have become available as International GNSS Service (IGS) products through the IGS Real-time Service (RTS) in 2013. The BCs are distributed via the Network Transport of RTCMby Internet Protocol (NTRIP) according to RTCMState Space Representation standards. When applying the BCs in real-time Precise Point Positioning (PPP), user positions with sub-decimetre precision after convergence can be obtained. The IGS BCs refer to the International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2008 (ITRF2008). BCs in regional reference frames (RBCs) are available through regional NTRIP broadcasters in Europe, North-America, South-America and Australia. The IGS RTS website states that: Applying orbit and clock corrections from regional product streams in a real-time PPP solution automatically leads to regional coordinates. The PPP client would not need to transform coordinates because that is already done on the server side. However, in contrast to the PPP-approach that uses BCs in ITRF2008 followed by a transformation to the local datum, the approach based on RBCs causes a bias in the PPP solution due to the scale factor between regional and global reference frames. This scale induced bias is satellite geometry dependent when the conventional 14-parameter transformation from the global to the regional reference frame is applied to the satellite position vectors in ITRF2008, to derive the RBCs from the IGS BCs. The size of the scale induced bias is significant. The bias is up to 8 cm for the Australian GDA94 and up to 0.5 cm for the North American NAD83. Currently an additional satellite position dependent value is added to the satellite clock correction to deal with the scale induced biases of three RBCs, resulting in a transformed clock correction (Weber, BKG Ntrip Client (BNC) Version 2.9 – Manual, 2013). Applying these transformed clocks results in a remaining scale induced bias of less then 10mm for each RBC of ETRF2000, NAD83 and SIRGAS2000. For GDA94 the remaining scale induced bias is maximum 30 mm, this is caused by the large scale factor of GDA94 compared to other regional reference frames. This contribution will show that the remaining bias in the PPP solution is practically independent from satellite geometry and depends mainly on the user position; hence the remaining bias can be predicted and corrected for at any location. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25198 10.1007/1345_2015_117 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FF0883188 restricted
spellingShingle Huisman, L.
Teunissen, Peter
Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections
title Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections
title_full Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections
title_fullStr Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections
title_full_unstemmed Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections
title_short Predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections
title_sort predicting and correcting scale induced biases resulting from the application of regional orbit and clock corrections
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FF0883188
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25198