Details:

Alternative Title:
Accuracy analysis of various NGS ionosphere estimation models
Personal Author:
Grejner-Brzezinska, Dorota A. ; Wielgosz, Pawel ; Kashani, Israel ; Mader, Gerald L.
Grejner-Brzezinska, Dorota A. ; Wielgosz, Pawel ; Kashani, Israel ; Mader, Gerald L. Less -
Corporate Authors:
National Geodetic Survey (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:
NOS (National Ocean Service)
Description:
"In this report, a preliminary demonstration of the accuracy analysis of several methods of estimating the ionospheric corrections, based on reference GPS permanently tracking network, is presented. The ionospheric reference 'truth' was selected as the double difference (DD) ionospheric correction, estimated from the dual frequency carrier phase data after fixing the DD ambiguities. The five ionospheric models that were tested are: 1. International GPS Service (IGS) global ionospheric map (GIM). IGS GIM is a combination of several different ionosphere models provided by IGS analysis centers (Schaer, 1999). 2. Absolute, smoothed pseudorange-based method -- denoted as P4. For details, see Wielgosz et al. (2003) 3. Absolute carrier phase-based model, decomposed from double differenced ionospheric delays, denoted as MPGPS. For details, see Kashani et al. (2004) 4. Absolute model based solely upon undifferenced dual frequency ambiguous carrier phase data -- NGSa (Smith, 2004) 5. Carrier phase double difference-based tomographic method -- NGSb (Spencer et al., 2004). Methods 1-4 assume that the ionosphere is an infinitesimal single layer, while method 5 considers the ionosphere as a 3D layer. The GPS data collected by the Ohio CORS stations -- COLB and SIDN, on August 31, 2003, were selected for the analysis. The data were divided into two one-hour sessions. The first (night) session includes the data collected between 08:00-09:00 UT (3-4 am local time), when the total electron content (TEC) reached its daily minimum; the second (daytime) session, from the period 17:00-18:00 UT (1-2 pm local time), corresponds to the highest daily TEC level. This session allocation allows assessing the influence of varying ionospheric conditions on the model comparison results. The average PDOP was 2.9 during the night session and 3.9 during the daytime session (this would be relevant for the future positioning tests). The data-sampling interval was 30 seconds, and a total of 120 epochs per session were processed. The satellite elevation angles for the night-time and the day-time tests are plotted in figures 3 and 14, respectively. Model 1 (GIM) provides absolute ionospheric delays in the IONEX format (grid). Thus, the ionospheric delays were interpolated for the user location using the linear interpolation. The Universal Kriging method was used to interpolate ionospheric delays provided by Models 2 (P4) and 3 (MPGPS). Ionospheric delays in Model 4 (NGSa) were derived from the orthogonal function coefficients for the radial profiles, and in Model 5 (NGSb), the ionospheric delays were obtained directly from the phase measurement data used in this test. The corrections were provided to us as L1 absolute slant ionospheric delays (one value per satellite per epoch) in a modified RINEX format, so no interpolation was applied. It should be noted that NGSb model, at this point, includes only two DD, since the method is based on the trajectory cross-over, and no interpolation was applied to derive corrections for other satellites. Once this is available, similar analysis, but for the station position coordinates, will be carried out"--Outline.
Content Notes:
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, Pawel Wielgosz, Israel Kashani, Department Of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science, The Ohio State University.

"July 9, 2004."

"Submitted to Dr. Gerald L. Mader, Chief, Geosciences Research Division, NOAA, National Geodetic Survey, N/NGS."

System Requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader


Keywords:
[+]
Evaluation Geodesy Global Positioning System Instruments Mathematical Models Surveying
Document Type:
Program & Policy Document
Place as Subject:
Ohio
Rights Information:
Public Domain
Compliance:
Library
Main Document Checksum:
[+]
urn:sha256:ec7c82f73c0fd0e8cad58f584078f834dc06f960e12bf8021054e7db96be929e
Download URL:
https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/2662/noaa_2662_DS1.pdf
File Type:

Supporting Files

• No Additional Files

More +