Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites benefit future ground-based positioning with their high number, strong signal strength and high speed. The rapid geometry change with the LEO augmentation offers acceleration of the convergence of the precision point positioning (PPP) solution. This contribution disc...

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Main Authors: Wang, Kan, El-Mowafy, Ahmed, Wang, W., Yang, L., Yang, X.
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Language:English
Published: MDPI 2022
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89286
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author Wang, Kan
El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Wang, W.
Yang, L.
Yang, X.
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El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Wang, W.
Yang, L.
Yang, X.
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description Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites benefit future ground-based positioning with their high number, strong signal strength and high speed. The rapid geometry change with the LEO augmentation offers acceleration of the convergence of the precision point positioning (PPP) solution. This contribution discusses the influences of the LEO augmentation on the precise point positioning—real-time kinematic (PPP-RTK) positioning and its integrity monitoring. Using 1 Hz simulated data around Beijing for global positioning system (GPS)/Galileo/Beidou navigation satellite system (BDS)-3 and the tested LEO constellation with 150 satellites on L1/L5, it was found that the convergence of the formal horizontal precision can be significantly shortened in the ambiguity-float case, especially for the single-constellation scenarios with low precision of the interpolated ionospheric delays. The LEO augmentation also improves the efficiency of the user ambiguity resolution and the formal horizontal precision with the ambiguities fixed. Using the integrity monitoring (IM) procedure introduced in the first part of this series of papers, the ambiguity-float horizontal protection levels (HPLs) are sharply reduced in various tested scenarios, with an improvement of more than 60% from 5 to 30 min after the processing start. The ambiguity-fixed HPLs can generally be improved by 10% to 60% with the LEO augmentation, depending on the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) constellations used and the precision of the ionospheric interpolation.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-892862022-09-23T05:16:34Z Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation Wang, Kan El-Mowafy, Ahmed Wang, W. Yang, L. Yang, X. Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Physical Sciences Technology Environmental Sciences Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Remote Sensing Imaging Science & Photographic Technology Environmental Sciences & Ecology Geology integrity monitoring PPP-RTK LEO GNSS L5 SATELLITES SERVICE Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites benefit future ground-based positioning with their high number, strong signal strength and high speed. The rapid geometry change with the LEO augmentation offers acceleration of the convergence of the precision point positioning (PPP) solution. This contribution discusses the influences of the LEO augmentation on the precise point positioning—real-time kinematic (PPP-RTK) positioning and its integrity monitoring. Using 1 Hz simulated data around Beijing for global positioning system (GPS)/Galileo/Beidou navigation satellite system (BDS)-3 and the tested LEO constellation with 150 satellites on L1/L5, it was found that the convergence of the formal horizontal precision can be significantly shortened in the ambiguity-float case, especially for the single-constellation scenarios with low precision of the interpolated ionospheric delays. The LEO augmentation also improves the efficiency of the user ambiguity resolution and the formal horizontal precision with the ambiguities fixed. Using the integrity monitoring (IM) procedure introduced in the first part of this series of papers, the ambiguity-float horizontal protection levels (HPLs) are sharply reduced in various tested scenarios, with an improvement of more than 60% from 5 to 30 min after the processing start. The ambiguity-fixed HPLs can generally be improved by 10% to 60% with the LEO augmentation, depending on the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) constellations used and the precision of the ionospheric interpolation. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89286 10.3390/rs14071599 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Physical Sciences
Technology
Environmental Sciences
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Remote Sensing
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Geology
integrity monitoring
PPP-RTK
LEO
GNSS
L5
SATELLITES
SERVICE
Wang, Kan
El-Mowafy, Ahmed
Wang, W.
Yang, L.
Yang, X.
Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation
title Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation
title_full Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation
title_fullStr Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation
title_full_unstemmed Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation
title_short Integrity Monitoring of PPP-RTK Positioning; Part II: LEO Augmentation
title_sort integrity monitoring of ppp-rtk positioning; part ii: leo augmentation
topic Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Physical Sciences
Technology
Environmental Sciences
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Remote Sensing
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Geology
integrity monitoring
PPP-RTK
LEO
GNSS
L5
SATELLITES
SERVICE
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102444
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89286