Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes

Ionospheric conditions at low latitudes are extremely harsh due to the frequent occurrence of scintillation and the presence of strong TEC gradients. For this study, the São Paulo state region in Brazil is chosen as a test area. This study presents a strategy to mitigate the ionospheric impact on RT...

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Main Authors: Park, J., Vadakke Veettil, Sreeja, Aquino, Marcio, Yang, Lei, Cesaroni, Claudio
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Published: Wiley 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44978/
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author Park, J.
Vadakke Veettil, Sreeja
Aquino, Marcio
Yang, Lei
Cesaroni, Claudio
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Vadakke Veettil, Sreeja
Aquino, Marcio
Yang, Lei
Cesaroni, Claudio
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description Ionospheric conditions at low latitudes are extremely harsh due to the frequent occurrence of scintillation and the presence of strong TEC gradients. For this study, the São Paulo state region in Brazil is chosen as a test area. This study presents a strategy to mitigate the ionospheric impact on RTK positioning with an experimental result. The proposed strategy explores two approaches that can be applied simultaneously: a) to mitigate the scintillation effect on the GNSS signals by refining the stochastic model of the corresponding observations and b) to precisely estimate the residual double difference ionospheric delay by exploiting an accurate TEC map. The strategy was tested on a long baseline kinematic processing under strong scintillation conditions (DOY21 in 2014). Significant improvements were observed when the combined use of the two mitigation approaches described above was compared with the use of conventional state-of-the-art approaches.
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spelling nottingham-449782020-05-04T18:45:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44978/ Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes Park, J. Vadakke Veettil, Sreeja Aquino, Marcio Yang, Lei Cesaroni, Claudio Ionospheric conditions at low latitudes are extremely harsh due to the frequent occurrence of scintillation and the presence of strong TEC gradients. For this study, the São Paulo state region in Brazil is chosen as a test area. This study presents a strategy to mitigate the ionospheric impact on RTK positioning with an experimental result. The proposed strategy explores two approaches that can be applied simultaneously: a) to mitigate the scintillation effect on the GNSS signals by refining the stochastic model of the corresponding observations and b) to precisely estimate the residual double difference ionospheric delay by exploiting an accurate TEC map. The strategy was tested on a long baseline kinematic processing under strong scintillation conditions (DOY21 in 2014). Significant improvements were observed when the combined use of the two mitigation approaches described above was compared with the use of conventional state-of-the-art approaches. Wiley 2017-05-07 Article PeerReviewed Park, J., Vadakke Veettil, Sreeja, Aquino, Marcio, Yang, Lei and Cesaroni, Claudio (2017) Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes. Navigation, 64 (1). pp. 67-74. ISSN 2161-4296 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/navi.177/abstract doi:10.1002/navi.177 doi:10.1002/navi.177
spellingShingle Park, J.
Vadakke Veettil, Sreeja
Aquino, Marcio
Yang, Lei
Cesaroni, Claudio
Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes
title Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes
title_full Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes
title_fullStr Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes
title_full_unstemmed Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes
title_short Mitigation of ionospheric effects on GNSS positioning at low latitudes
title_sort mitigation of ionospheric effects on gnss positioning at low latitudes
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44978/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44978/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44978/