Assessment of PPP integer ambiguity resolution using GPS, GLONASS and BeiDou (IGSO, MEO) constellations
2017
Although integer
ambiguity resolution(IAR) can improve positioning accuracy considerably and shorten the convergence time of
precise point positioning(PPP), it requires an initialization time of over 30 min. With the full operation of
GLONASSglobally and BDS in the Asia–Pacific region, it is necessary to assess the PPP–IAR performance by simultaneous fixing of GPS,
GLONASS, and BDS
ambiguities. This study proposed a GPS +
GLONASS+ BDS combined PPP–IAR strategy and processed PPP–IAR kinematically and statically using one week of data collected at 20 static stations. The undifferenced wide- and narrow-lane fractional cycle biases for GPS,
GLONASS, and BDS were estimated using a regional network, and undifferenced PPP
ambiguity resolutionwas performed to assess the contribution of multi-GNSSs. Generally, over 99% of a posteriori residuals of wide-lane
ambiguitieswere within ±0.25 cycles for both GPS and BDS, while the value was 91.5% for
GLONASS. Over 96% of narrow-lane residuals were within ±0.15 cycles for GPS,
GLONASS, and BDS. For kinematic PPP with a 10-min observation time, only 16.2% of all cases could be fixed with GPS alone. However, adding
GLONASSimproved the percentage considerably to 75.9%, and it reached 90.0% when using GPS +
GLONASS+ BDS. Not all epochs could be fixed with a correct set of
ambiguities; therefore, we defined the ratio of the number of epochs with correctly fixed
ambiguitiesto the number of all fixed epochs as the correct fixing rate (CFR). Because partial
ambiguityfixing was used, when more than five
ambiguitieswere fixed correctly, we considered the epoch correctly fixed. For the small ratio criteria of 2.0, the CFR improved considerably from 51.7% for GPS alone, to 98.3% when using GPS +
GLONASS+ BDS combined solutions.
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