Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites
Due to an increasing requirement for high accuracy orbital information for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, precise orbit determination (POD) of LEO satellites is a topic of growing interest. To assure the safety and reliability of the applications requiring high accuracy LEO orbits in near-real-ti...
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| description | Due to an increasing requirement for high accuracy orbital information for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, precise orbit determination (POD) of LEO satellites is a topic of growing interest. To assure the safety and reliability of the applications requiring high accuracy LEO orbits in near-real-time, integrity monitoring (IM) is an essential operation of the POD process.
In this contribution, the IM strategy for LEO POD in both the kinematic and reduced-dynamic modes is investigated. The overbounding parameters of the signal-in-space range error are investigated for the GPS products provided by the International GNSS Service’s Real-Time Service and the Multi-GNSS Advanced Demonstration of Orbit and Clock Analysis
service. Benefting from the dynamic models used and the improved model strength, the test results based on the data of the LEO satellite GRACE FO-1 show that the average-case mean protection levels (PLs) can be reduced from about 3–4 m in the kinematic mode to about 1 m in the reduced-dynamic mode in the radial, along-track and cross-track directions. The overbounding mean values of the SISRE play the dominant role in the fnal PLs. In the reduced-dynamic mode and averagecase projection, the IM availabilities reach above 99% in the radial, along-track and cross-track directions with the alert limit (AL) set to 2 m. The values are still above 98% with the AL set to 4 m, when the duty cycle of tracking is reduced to 40%, e.g., in the case of power limits for miniature satellites such as CubeSats. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-870252022-01-07T07:56:35Z Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites Wang, Kan El-Mowafy, Ahmed Rizos, Chris 0909 - Geomatic Engineering LEO POD GPS Integrity Monitoring Due to an increasing requirement for high accuracy orbital information for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, precise orbit determination (POD) of LEO satellites is a topic of growing interest. To assure the safety and reliability of the applications requiring high accuracy LEO orbits in near-real-time, integrity monitoring (IM) is an essential operation of the POD process. In this contribution, the IM strategy for LEO POD in both the kinematic and reduced-dynamic modes is investigated. The overbounding parameters of the signal-in-space range error are investigated for the GPS products provided by the International GNSS Service’s Real-Time Service and the Multi-GNSS Advanced Demonstration of Orbit and Clock Analysis service. Benefting from the dynamic models used and the improved model strength, the test results based on the data of the LEO satellite GRACE FO-1 show that the average-case mean protection levels (PLs) can be reduced from about 3–4 m in the kinematic mode to about 1 m in the reduced-dynamic mode in the radial, along-track and cross-track directions. The overbounding mean values of the SISRE play the dominant role in the fnal PLs. In the reduced-dynamic mode and averagecase projection, the IM availabilities reach above 99% in the radial, along-track and cross-track directions with the alert limit (AL) set to 2 m. The values are still above 98% with the AL set to 4 m, when the duty cycle of tracking is reduced to 40%, e.g., in the case of power limits for miniature satellites such as CubeSats. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87025 10.1007/s10291-021-01200-4 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Springer Nature fulltext |
| spellingShingle | 0909 - Geomatic Engineering LEO POD GPS Integrity Monitoring Wang, Kan El-Mowafy, Ahmed Rizos, Chris Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites |
| title | Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites |
| title_full | Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites |
| title_fullStr | Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites |
| title_short | Integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of LEO satellites |
| title_sort | integrity monitoring for precise orbit determination of leo satellites |
| topic | 0909 - Geomatic Engineering LEO POD GPS Integrity Monitoring |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87025 |