High-performance Atomic Clock Modeling and Its Application in Precise Point Positioning

doi:10.11947/j.AGCS.2015.20140287

Abstract

Abstract: Presently, many IGS tracking stations have been equipped with high performance atomic clocks. In this paper, the modified Allan variance method is used to analyze the time-domain characterization of random noise of receiver clocks from different IGS tracking stations. Then, we not only evaluate the short-term stability of different types of receiver clock and the feasibility of clock modeling, but also take advantage of the observational data of Active Hydrogen Maser from IGS station in order to constrain random variation of receiver clock offset by implementing short-term clock modeling in precise point positioning(PPP) algorithm and improve positioning performance of PPP. The experiment results show that the method of clock modeling reduces the correlation between the height component, the zenith path delay and receiver clock offset parameter, the accuracy of height component can be improved by 50%. The proposed method can improve the PPP performance in crustal deformation monitoring, LEO satellite orbit determination, GNSS methodology and many other high precise GNSS geoscience fields when a high-performance atomic clock is deployed.

Key words: atomic clock, modified Allan variance, receiver clock modeling, precise point positioning

CLC Number:

P228

ZHANG Xiaohong, CHEN Xinghan, GUO Fei. High-performance Atomic Clock Modeling and Its Application in Precise Point Positioning[J]. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 2015, 44(4): 392-398.

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