Performance Analysis of Different NeQuick Ionospheric Model Parameters

doi:10.11947/j.AGCS.2017.20160400

Abstract

Abstract: Galileo adopts NeQuick model for single-frequency ionospheric delay corrections. For the standard operation of Galileo, NeQuick model is driven by the effective ionization level parameter Az instead of the solar activity level index, and the three broadcast ionospheric coefficients are determined by a second-polynomial through fitting the Az values estimated from globally distributed Galileo Sensor Stations (GSS). In this study, the processing strategies for the estimation of NeQuick ionospheric coefficients are discussed and the characteristics of the NeQuick coefficients are also analyzed. The accuracy of Global Position System (GPS) broadcast Klobuchar, original NeQuick2 and fitted NeQuickC as well as Galileo broadcast NeQuickG models is evaluated over the continental and oceanic regions, respectively, in comparison with the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) provided by global ionospheric maps (GIM), GPS test stations and JASON-2 altimeter. The results show that NeQuickG can mitigate ionospheric delay by 54.2%~65.8% on a global scale, and NeQuickC can correct for 71.1%~74.2% of the ionospheric delay. NeQuick2 performs at the same level with NeQuickG, which is a bit better than that of GPS broadcast Klobuchar model.

Key words: Galileo, NeQuick model, ionospheric delay, total electron content(TEC)

CLC Number:

P228

WANG Ningbo, YUAN Yunbin, LI Zishen, LI Min, HUO Xingliang. Performance Analysis of Different NeQuick Ionospheric Model Parameters[J]. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 2017, 46(4): 421-429.

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