Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations

The paper discusses GNSS statistical-testing methods for detection and identifications of observation outliers at the estimation "current" epoch, defined here as local testing. First, detection methods are discussed including testing the probability distribution (likelihood) of the residua...

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Main Author: El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Format: Journal Article
Published: International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36328
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description The paper discusses GNSS statistical-testing methods for detection and identifications of observation outliers at the estimation "current" epoch, defined here as local testing. First, detection methods are discussed including testing the probability distribution (likelihood) of the residuals, testing using dynamic control limits of the range, the mean and standard deviation of the residuals. A method is proposed examining the difference between the mean and the median of the residuals. To identify the satellites with faulty measurements, several methods were investigated, including checking the likelihood of the residuals at the present epoch, and in a time series. A test is presented utilizing the control limits of the residuals' moving range for each satellite. Testing of the proposed methods was carried out using only GPS phase measurements in the kinematic mode. Results show that the proposed methods are efficient for detection and identification of large errors/outliers. However, the performance degrades with error values less than 5 cycles and when using small significance levels.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-363282017-09-13T15:52:52Z Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations El-Mowafy, Ahmed Statistical Testing Positioning GNSS Quality Control The paper discusses GNSS statistical-testing methods for detection and identifications of observation outliers at the estimation "current" epoch, defined here as local testing. First, detection methods are discussed including testing the probability distribution (likelihood) of the residuals, testing using dynamic control limits of the range, the mean and standard deviation of the residuals. A method is proposed examining the difference between the mean and the median of the residuals. To identify the satellites with faulty measurements, several methods were investigated, including checking the likelihood of the residuals at the present epoch, and in a time series. A test is presented utilizing the control limits of the residuals' moving range for each satellite. Testing of the proposed methods was carried out using only GPS phase measurements in the kinematic mode. Results show that the proposed methods are efficient for detection and identification of large errors/outliers. However, the performance degrades with error values less than 5 cycles and when using small significance levels. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36328 10.5081/jgps.9.1.12 International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) fulltext
spellingShingle Statistical Testing
Positioning
GNSS
Quality Control
El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations
title Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations
title_full Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations
title_fullStr Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations
title_full_unstemmed Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations
title_short Local Statistical Testing in Quality Control of GNSS Observations
title_sort local statistical testing in quality control of gnss observations
topic Statistical Testing
Positioning
GNSS
Quality Control
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36328