A GNSS water vapor tomography method considering boundary signals and vertical constraint

doi:10.11947/j.AGCS.2021.20200433

Abstract

Abstract: GNSS three-dimensional water vapor tomography technology is used to obtain all-weather atmospheric water vapor distribution information with high spatial and temporal resolution. At present, the observation data of the tomographic model considering only the top signal have low utilization rate and large grid space rate, and the vertical constraint equation adopted is less consistent with the actual water vapor distribution. This paper based on the function fitted with sounding information to establish a vertical constraints, designs and implements a tomographic method considering boundary signals, uses the observation data of Hong Kong CORS network and radio sounding products. The improvement of the results of water vapor tomography by introducing boundary signals and for vertical constraint equation are analyzed in detail. The results show that the addition of boundary signals increases the observation equation by 51.9%, decreases the grid space rate significantly, and reduces the root-mean-square error of the solution results by 12.1%. Compared with the traditional constraint equation based on the exponential decline characteristic in the vertical direction, the root-mean-square error of the vertical constraint solution adopted in this paper is reduced by 5.7%.

Key words: GNSS, 3D water vapor, tomography, boundary incident signals, vertical constraint, radiosonde data

CLC Number:

P228

HE Xiufeng, ZHAN Wei, SHI Hongkai. A GNSS water vapor tomography method considering boundary signals and vertical constraint[J]. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 2021, 50(7): 853-862.

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