Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS

Results are presented of real time kinematic (RTK) positioning based on carrier phase and code (pseudorange) observations of the four Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, as they were in orbit and transmitting navigation data at the time of writing this article (2013). These Galileo data we...

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Main Authors: Odijk, Dennis, Teunissen, Peter, Khodabandeh, A.
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Published: Maney Publishing 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46631
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author Odijk, Dennis
Teunissen, Peter
Khodabandeh, A.
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Teunissen, Peter
Khodabandeh, A.
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description Results are presented of real time kinematic (RTK) positioning based on carrier phase and code (pseudorange) observations of the four Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, as they were in orbit and transmitting navigation data at the time of writing this article (2013). These Galileo data were collected by multi-GNSS receivers operated by Curtin University and as such this article is one of the first presenting results of short baseline ambiguity resolution and positioning based on Galileo IOV observations. The results demonstrate that integer ambiguity resolution based on the four IOV satellites needs fewer than three minutes when at least observables from three frequencies are used. Combined with data of four GPS satellites even instantaneous (single epoch) ambiguity resolution is demonstrated, using only two frequencies per constellation (i.e. E1+E5a & L1+L2). We also show that at locations with obstructed satellite visibility, such that positioning based on either GPS-only or Galileo-only becomes impossible or only in a very inaccurate way, combined Galileo&GPS positioning is feasible, within 10 min if one frequency of each constellation is used and only 2 min time-to-fix the ambiguities based on observations of two frequencies of each constellation. It is furthermore demonstrated that this results in positions with centimetre level accuracy in the horizontal plane and sub-decimetre accuracy in the vertical direction.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-466312017-09-13T14:08:02Z Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS Odijk, Dennis Teunissen, Peter Khodabandeh, A. GNSS Galileo IOV RTK positioning Interoperability LAMBDA method Ambiguity resolution GPS Results are presented of real time kinematic (RTK) positioning based on carrier phase and code (pseudorange) observations of the four Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, as they were in orbit and transmitting navigation data at the time of writing this article (2013). These Galileo data were collected by multi-GNSS receivers operated by Curtin University and as such this article is one of the first presenting results of short baseline ambiguity resolution and positioning based on Galileo IOV observations. The results demonstrate that integer ambiguity resolution based on the four IOV satellites needs fewer than three minutes when at least observables from three frequencies are used. Combined with data of four GPS satellites even instantaneous (single epoch) ambiguity resolution is demonstrated, using only two frequencies per constellation (i.e. E1+E5a & L1+L2). We also show that at locations with obstructed satellite visibility, such that positioning based on either GPS-only or Galileo-only becomes impossible or only in a very inaccurate way, combined Galileo&GPS positioning is feasible, within 10 min if one frequency of each constellation is used and only 2 min time-to-fix the ambiguities based on observations of two frequencies of each constellation. It is furthermore demonstrated that this results in positions with centimetre level accuracy in the horizontal plane and sub-decimetre accuracy in the vertical direction. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46631 10.1179/1752270613Y.0000000084 Maney Publishing fulltext
spellingShingle GNSS
Galileo IOV
RTK positioning
Interoperability
LAMBDA method
Ambiguity resolution
GPS
Odijk, Dennis
Teunissen, Peter
Khodabandeh, A.
Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS
title Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS
title_full Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS
title_fullStr Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS
title_full_unstemmed Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS
title_short Galileo IOV RTK positioning: standalone and combined with GPS
title_sort galileo iov rtk positioning: standalone and combined with gps
topic GNSS
Galileo IOV
RTK positioning
Interoperability
LAMBDA method
Ambiguity resolution
GPS
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46631