Adaptive Tropospheric Delay Modelling in GPS/INS/Pseudolite Integration for Airborne Surveying
- Publisher:
- International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS)
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of GPS, 2007, 6, (2), pp. 142-148
- Issue Date:
- 2007-01
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Integrated GPS/INS systems have been used for geo-referencing airborne surveying and mapping platforms. However, due to the limited constellation of GPS satellites and their geometric distribution, the accuracy of such integraed systems cannot meet the requirements of precise airborne surveying. This problem can be addressed by including additional GPS-like ranging signals transmitted from the ground-based pseudolites (PLs). As GPS measurement geometry can be strengthened dramatically by the PL augmentation, systems accuracy and reliability can be improved, especially in the vertical component. Nevertheless, some challenges exist for PLs augmentation. As PLs are relatively close to the receivers, the unit vectors from a PL to reference and rover receivers can be significantly different. PL tropospheric delay modelling errors cannot be effectively mitigated in differencing procedure. Furthermore, PL signals propagate through the lower troposphere, where it is very difficult to accurately model the signal delay due to temporal and spatial variations of meteorological parameters. An adaptive PL tropospheric delay modelling method is developed to reduce modelling error by estimating meteorological parameters in a model. The performance of this method is evaluated with field test data. The testing has shown that the PL tropospheric delay modelling error can be effectively mitigated by the proposed method.
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