The GBM rapid product and the improvement from undifferenced ambiguity resolution

doi:10.11947/j.AGCS.2022.20220022

Abstract

Abstract: Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) plays a critical role for providing real-time position-ing and navigation services, and the precise satellite orbit and clock products are essential for the high-precision GNSS applications. The international GNSS service (IGS) and its analysis centers (ACs) have been working on the study on precise GNSS data processing and provision of the precise products. The German research center for geosciences (GFZ), as one of the ACs, also provides the multi-GNSS rapid product: the GBM product. We introduce the GBM data processing strategy, analyze the precision of GBM multi-GNSS orbits from 2015 to 2021, and present the impact of applying the undifferenced ambiguity resolution on satellite orbits. The GPS orbits of GBM products agree with the IGS final orbits at the level of 11~13 mm in the three directions, and the GPS orbit 6 hour prediction precision is around 6 cm. The 6 hour prediction precision of GLONASS is around 12 cm, slightly worse than that of Galileo, which holds an average value of 10 cm in the same period but shows a significant improvement to around 5 cm after the end of 2016. The prediction precision of BDS medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites are around 10 cm, and that of the BDS geostationary earth orbit, (GEO) satellites and QZSS satellites are at the level of 1 to 3 meter. The satellite laser ranging (SLR) residuals show that the orbit precision of Galileo, GLONASS, and BDS3-MEO are 23, 41, and 47 mm, respectively. Moreover, comparing the double-differenced ambiguity resolution, adopting the undifferenced ambiguity resolution improves the 6 hour orbit prediction precision by 9%~15%,15%~18%,11%~13%,6%~17% and 14%~25% for the GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BDS-2 and BDS-3 MEO satellites, respectively.

Key words: GNSS, precise orbit determination, ambiguity fixing

CLC Number:

P227

DENG Zhiguo, WANG Jungang, GE Maorong. The GBM rapid product and the improvement from undifferenced ambiguity resolution[J]. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 2022, 51(4): 544-555.

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