Authors: Joz Wu ChiHsiu Hsieh
Publish Date: 2009/11/28
Volume: 84, Issue: 4, Pages: 223-232
Abstract
Based on a leastsquares model for doubledifference GPS pseudoranges and carrierphases measurement residuals expressed in time series during an observation session are positively correlated between one sidereal day and the preceding days As a result of the satellite’s period the phenomenon which takes place at a user receiving site is attributed to multipath interference Examples from a weekly measurement dataset of control baselines are shown where the known endpoint coordinates also serve as a benchmark for assessing positioning accuracy The system of error equations for mixedmodel adjustment is divided into two subsystems One set of the error equations is related to the real range measurements while the other involves the pseudoobservation with an empirical sample variance According to the existing correlation between daytoday residual estimates a multipathmitigating algorithm is proven to improve the accuracy of the GPS height determination by at least 40 It is also found that the algorithm depends on a variancecomponent estimator that adaptively scales an error covariance matrix for both the real range and empirical delay measurements
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