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Extending Coverage of DGPS by Considering Atmospheric Models and Corrections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2002

Changdon Kee
Affiliation:
Seoul National University, Korea
Doohee Yun
Affiliation:
Seoul National University, Korea

Abstract

We have developed a local-area ionospheric time-delay model that consists of nominal and perturbation models. The nominal model describes the trends of ionospheric time delay over 1–2 days and uses nine parameters. The perturbation model describes rapid changes of ionospheric time delay over 2–3 hours and uses six parameters. All the parameters are estimated from raw data measured at one reference station, which has filters to estimate all the parameters of the local-area ionospheric time-delay model. With this model and Black's tropospheric time-delay model, we obtain compensated Differential GPS (DGPS) pseudorange corrections by subtracting the atmospheric time-delay difference between the reference station and the user. We believed that the model could extend DGPS coverage. To check this, we analyzed experimental data. The results show that this algorithm not only improves DGPS positioning accuracy, but also extends DGPS coverage from 100 km to more than 400 km. We named this new algorithm the Seoul National University Differential GPS (SNUDGPS).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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