Measurement signal quality assessment on all available and new signals of multi-GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BDS, and QZSS) with real data

Quan, Yiming; Lau, Lawrence; Roberts, Gethin Wyn; Meng, Xiaolin

Abstract

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Carrier Phase (CP)-based high-precision positioning techniques have been widely used in geodesy, attitude determination, engineering survey and agricultural applications. With the modernisation of GNSS, multi-constellation and multi-frequency data processing is one of the foci of current GNSS research. The GNSS development authorities have better designs for the new signals, which are aimed for fast acquisition for civil users, less susceptible to interference and multipath, and having lower measurement noise. However, how good are the new signals in practice? The aim of this paper is to provide an early assessment of the newly available signals as well as assessment of the other currently available signals. The signal quality of the multi-GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BDS and QZSS) is assessed by looking at their zero-baseline Double Difference (DD) CP residuals. The impacts of multi-GNSS multi-frequency signals on single-epoch positioning are investigated in terms of accuracy, precision and fixed solution availability with known short baselines.

Citation

Quan, Y., Lau, L., Roberts, G. W., & Meng, X. (2016). Measurement signal quality assessment on all available and new signals of multi-GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BDS, and QZSS) with real data. Journal of Navigation, 69(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0373463315000624

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 24, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Sep 4, 2015
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 25, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 25, 2016
• Journal: Journal of Navigation
• Print ISSN: 0373-4633
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-7785
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0373463315000624
• Keywords: Multi-GNSS; New signals; High-precision positioning
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/978049
• Publisher URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10183770&fileId=S0373463315000624
• Contract Date: Jul 25, 2016