Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (7): 1212-1228.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2026.20260094

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Reference station position moving method for high-precision positioning and orbit determination

Jun Li(), Huizhong Zhu(), Bo Li, Yangyang Lu, Zijia Wang, Zhiqiang Liu   

  1. School of Geomatics, Liaoning Technology University, Fuxin 123000, China
  • Received:2026-03-19 Revised:2026-06-29 Published:2026-08-18
  • Contact: Huizhong Zhu E-mail:lijun_ch@lntu.edu.cn;zhuhuizhong@lntu.edu.cn
  • About author:Li Jun (1994—), male, PhD, lecturer, majors in GNSS ground-based enhanced positioning algorithm. E-mail: lijun_ch@lntu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(42030109; 42074012);Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Program Project(2025-BS-0390);Liaoning Revitalization Talents Prograrm(XLYC2203162)

Abstract:

High-precision positioning and orbit determination rely on accurate reference station coordinates, but these coordinates cannot remain confidential during real-time transmission and computation. To address this, a reference station position moving method based on spatial error correlation is proposed. This method assumes that atmospheric errors remain consistent with the original station, and by accounting for the geometric distance between the moved station and the satellite, it generates a moved reference station with error characteristics similar to the original. This allows the moved station to replace the original in providing precise positioning determination (PPD) and precise orbit determination (POD) services. To evaluate the impact of this approach, the performance of PPP-RTK positioning, network RTK positioning, and precise orbit determination using moved reference stations is analyzed. Experimental results show that when the reference station is randomly moved up to 900 m, the effect on NL-UPD and PPP-RTK positioning is negligible, and high-precision PPP-RTK remains unaffected. For network RTK, the impact on ambiguity resolution and error correction accuracy increases with moving distance. At 5000 m, float-ambiguity differences become significant, and undifferenced error correction values rise sharply, yet network RTK high-precision positioning remains unaffected, with limited impact on regional enhanced positioning. When the reference station is randomly moved up to 900 m, the influence on precision orbit determination is minimal, with the BDS-IGSO precision orbit showing the largest deviation of only 8.4 mm, meeting high-precision requirements.

Key words: reference station, position moving, atmospheric errors, errors correction values, coordinates security

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