Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario

All rights reserved. In this contribution we study the impact of integer ambiguity resolution (IAR) on the precision of GNSS estimable parameters. In doing so, a multivariate formulation of the GNSS undifferenced observation equations of a PPP- RTK network is presented, where appropriate one-to-one...

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Main Authors: Teunissen, Peter, Khodabandeh, A.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Institute of Navigation 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8443
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Khodabandeh, A.
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description All rights reserved. In this contribution we study the impact of integer ambiguity resolution (IAR) on the precision of GNSS estimable parameters. In doing so, a multivariate formulation of the GNSS undifferenced observation equations of a PPP- RTK network is presented, where appropriate one-to-one transformations to the parameters ease our analysis. Functions of the estimable slant ionospheric delays are shown to have distinct responses to IAR, ranging from zero (of a satellite-/receiver-averaged type) to very significant (of a double-differenced type). While the satellite-/receiver- Averaged components of the estimable clocks and phase biases on a particular frequency remain unaffected after IAR, the precision of their single-differenced (SD) counterparts experiences improvement. In particular, the precision improvement gets larger as the geometry of the model gets weaker. This is, however, not the case with the wide-lane satellite phase biases, since their precision is almost insensitive to the geometry of the model. Supported by numerical results, our analytical expressions show that the precision improvement of the SD satellite clocks and phase biases increases as the number of stations increases. We also highlight the zero-correlation property between the double-differenced ambiguities and the code biases that get estimable on the third frequency and beyond.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-84432017-01-30T11:06:48Z Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario Teunissen, Peter Khodabandeh, A. All rights reserved. In this contribution we study the impact of integer ambiguity resolution (IAR) on the precision of GNSS estimable parameters. In doing so, a multivariate formulation of the GNSS undifferenced observation equations of a PPP- RTK network is presented, where appropriate one-to-one transformations to the parameters ease our analysis. Functions of the estimable slant ionospheric delays are shown to have distinct responses to IAR, ranging from zero (of a satellite-/receiver-averaged type) to very significant (of a double-differenced type). While the satellite-/receiver- Averaged components of the estimable clocks and phase biases on a particular frequency remain unaffected after IAR, the precision of their single-differenced (SD) counterparts experiences improvement. In particular, the precision improvement gets larger as the geometry of the model gets weaker. This is, however, not the case with the wide-lane satellite phase biases, since their precision is almost insensitive to the geometry of the model. Supported by numerical results, our analytical expressions show that the precision improvement of the SD satellite clocks and phase biases increases as the number of stations increases. We also highlight the zero-correlation property between the double-differenced ambiguities and the code biases that get estimable on the third frequency and beyond. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8443 Institute of Navigation restricted
spellingShingle Teunissen, Peter
Khodabandeh, A.
Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario
title Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario
title_full Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario
title_fullStr Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario
title_full_unstemmed Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario
title_short Do GNSS parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? A PPP-RTK network scenario
title_sort do gnss parameters always benefit from integer ambiguity resolution? a ppp-rtk network scenario
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8443