Satellite- and Epoch Differenced Precise Point Positioning Based on a Regional Augmentation Network 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 7518-7528; doi:10.3390/s120607518 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Satellite- and Epoch Differenced Precise Point Positioning Based on a Regional Augmentation Network Haojun Li 1, Junping Chen 1,*, Jiexian Wang 2 and Bin Wu 1 1 Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China; E-Mails: yanlhjch@126.com (H.L.); bwu@ (B.W.) 2 Department of Surveying and Geo-informatics Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China; E-Mail: wangjiexian@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: junping@; Tel./Fax: +86-21-3477-5223. Received: 30 March 2012; in revised form: 29 May 2012 / Accepted: 30 May 2012 / Published: 4 June 2012 Abstract: Precise Point Positioning (PPP) has been demonstrated as a simple and effective approach for user positioning. The key issue in PPP is how to shorten convergence time and improve positioning efficiency. Recent researches mainly focus on the ambiguity resolution by correcting residual phase errors at a single station. The success of this approach (referred to hereafter as NORM-PPP) is subject to how rapidly one can fix wide-lane and narrow-lane ambiguities to achieve the first ambiguity-fixed solution. The convergence time of NORM-PPP is receiver type dependent, and normally takes 15–20 min. Different from the general algorithm and theory by which the float ambiguities are estimated and the integer ambiguities are fixed, we concentrate on a differential PPP approach: the satellite- and epoch differenced (SDED) approach. In general, the SDED approach eliminates receiver clocks and ambiguity parameters and thus avoids the complicated residual phase modeling procedure. As a further development of the SDED approach, we use a regional augmentation network to derive tropospheric delay and remaining un-modeled errors at us