Assessing the Performance of GPS Precise Point Positioning Under Different Geomagnetic Storm Conditions during Solar Cycle 24

Luo, Xu; Lou, Yidong; Xiong, Chao; Chen, Biyan; Jin, Xueyuan

doi:10.3390/s18061784

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“…At the same time, they also used different instruments or data, including ground‐based GNSS data, ionosondes data, TSX data, GRACE data, Swarm data, GUVI, Jason‐2, and GPS data on Jason‐2 for understanding the geomagnetic storm (Astafyeva et al, 2015; Chen et al, 2016; Jin et al, 2017; Kuai et al, 2016; Nava et al, 2016; Prikryl et al, 2016). Meanwhile, the GPS scintillation events, LOL, and its effects on positioning service during the main phase were also demonstrated (Jacobsen & Andalsvik, 2016; Jin & Oksavik, 2018; Luo et al, 2018).…”

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Assessing the Positioning Performance Under the Effects of Strong Ionospheric Anomalies With Multi‐GNSS in Hong Kong

Lü

Wang

et al. 2020

Radio Science

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Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) precise positioning performance will be strongly affected under severe ionospheric anomaly conditions. The combination of multi‐GNSS can increase the available observations and improve the geometry of continuously tracked satellites. This paper focuses on assessing the positioning performance with the combination of Global Positioning System (GPS), Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikova Sistema (GLONASS), and BeiDou System (BDS) around the St. Patrick's Day geomagnetic storm (9–18 March) in 2015 in Hong Kong. The rate of total electron content (TEC) index (ROTI) indicates severe ionospheric anomalies before the superstorm, while it was absent during the main phase of the storm in Hong Kong. Furthermore, strong scintillation events on signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) and multipath (MP) observables are observed during ionospheric anomalies period. Then the performance of single‐point positioning (SPP) and precise point positioning (PPP) with multi‐GNSS is shown. The ionospheric scintillation events may reduce pseudorange accuracy but affect SPP performance a little in this study, while the PPP accuracy is vastly decreased due to the subsequent reconvergence caused by frequent cycle slip (CS). Compared to PPP solutions with GPS only, the accuracy is improved significantly with the combination of multi‐GNSS.

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Assessing the Positioning Performance Under the Effects of Strong Ionospheric Anomalies With Multi‐GNSS in Hong Kong

Lü

Wang

et al. 2020

Radio Science

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“…It also should be mentioned that the performance of our proposed strategy can also be affected by the number of data gaps caused by losses of signal lock since we did not consider the method to connect the data gaps yet. Several studies have been reported that, under extreme space weather event like the geomagnetic storm, several satellites may encounter losses of signal lock [46][47][48]. In this case, Banville and Langley [49] proposed a three-step method to estimate the size of signal interruption (cycle-slip) based on LAMBDA method in real-time kinematic PPP.…”

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A Strategy to Mitigate the Ionospheric Scintillation Effects on BDS Precise Point Positioning: Cycle-Slip Threshold Model

Luo¹,

Lou²,

Gu³

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Because of the special design of BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS) constellation, the effects of ionospheric scintillation on operational BDS generally are more serious than on the global positioning system (GPS). As BDS is currently providing global services, it is increasingly important to seek strategies to mitigate the scintillation effects on BDS navigation and positioning services. In this study, an improved cycle-slip threshold model is proposed to decrease the high false-alarm rate of cycle-slips under scintillation conditions, thus avoiding the frequent unnecessary ambiguity resets in BDS precise point positioning (PPP) solution. We use one-year (from 23 March 2015 to 23 March 2016) BDS dataset from Hong Kong Sha Tin (HKST) station (22.4°N, 114.2°E; geomagnetic latitude: 15.4°N) to model the cycle-slip threshold and try to make it suitable for three types of BDS satellites and multiple scintillation levels. The availability of our mitigation strategy is validated by using three months (from 1 September 2015 to 30 November 2015) BDS dataset collected at 10 global navigation satellite system (GNSS) stations in Hong Kong. Positioning results demonstrate that our mitigated BDS PPP can prevent the sudden fluctuations of positioning errors induced by the ionospheric scintillation. Statistical results of BDS PPP experiments show that the mitigated solution can maintain an accuracy of about 0.08 m and 0.10 m in the horizontal and vertical components, respectively. Compared with standard BDS PPP, the accuracy of mitigated PPP can be improved by approximately 24.1%, 38.2%, and 47.9% in the east, north, and up directions, respectively. Our study demonstrates that considering different scintillation levels to establish appropriate cycle-slip threshold model in PPP processing can efficiently mitigate the ionospheric scintillation effects on BDS PPP.

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“…Deep signal fades that appear during small-scale irregularities effect result in navigation outages [29]. Luo et al [30] studied several strong storms during solar cycle 24, including the 17 March 2015 St. Patrick storm. They reported that the precise point positioning (PPP) error was less than 0.32 m at mid-latitudes.…”

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Small-Scale Ionospheric Irregularities of Auroral Origin at Mid-latitudes during the 22 June 2015 Magnetic Storm and Their Effect on GPS Positioning

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Small-scale ionospheric irregularities affect navigation and radio telecommunications. We studied small-scale irregularities observed during the 22 June 2015 geomagnetic storm and used experimental facilities at the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISTP SB RAS) located near Irkutsk, Russia (~52°N, 104°E). The facilities used were the DPS-4 ionosonde (spread-F width), receivers of the Irkutsk Incoherent Scatter Radar (Cygnus A signal amplitude scintillations), and GPS/GLONASS receivers (amplitude and phase scintillations), while 150 MHz Cygnus A signal recording provides a unique data set on ionosphere small-scale structure. We observed increased spread-F, Cygnus A signal amplitude scintillations, and GPS phase scintillations near 20 UT on 22 June 2015 at mid-latitudes. GPS/GLONASS amplitude scintillations were at a quiet time level. By using global total electron content (TEC) maps, we conclude that small-scale irregularities are most likely caused by the auroral oval expansion. In the small-scale irregularity region, we recorded an increase in the precise point positioning (PPP) error. Even at mid-latitudes, the mean PPP error is at least five times that of the quiet level and reaches 0.5 m.

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Assessing the Performance of GPS Precise Point Positioning Under Different Geomagnetic Storm Conditions during Solar Cycle 24

Cited by 48 publications

References 37 publications

Assessing the Positioning Performance Under the Effects of Strong Ionospheric Anomalies With Multi‐GNSS in Hong Kong

Assessing the Positioning Performance Under the Effects of Strong Ionospheric Anomalies With Multi‐GNSS in Hong Kong

A Strategy to Mitigate the Ionospheric Scintillation Effects on BDS Precise Point Positioning: Cycle-Slip Threshold Model

Small-Scale Ionospheric Irregularities of Auroral Origin at Mid-latitudes during the 22 June 2015 Magnetic Storm and Their Effect on GPS Positioning

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