Investigation of anomalous ionospheric gradient effects on the performance of Indian GBAS

Reddy, A. Supraja

doi:10.1109/iccmc.2017.8282603

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“…Ionospheric delay gradients have been studied for both quiet (background) and disturbed periods (Koroglu et al, ; Rungraengwajiake et al, ; Saito, Fujita, et al, ). For midlatitude region all over Europe (Schlüter et al, ) and Asia (Reddy, ; Z. Wang et al, ), the ionospheric disturbances do not frequently occur. On the other hand, in low‐latitude regions, the largest gradient was found in Brazil at approximately 850 mm/km (Lee et al, ); the results show that the ionospheric disturbances occur almost daily especially during equinoctial months.…”

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Analysis of Quiet Time Vertical Ionospheric Delay Gradients Around Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand

2018

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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is vital to aircraft navigation at many phases of flight. To extend its use to the approach and landing phases, ground‐based augmentation system is an important on‐the‐ground technology to reduce the positioning errors. However, nonuniform spatial ionospheric delays need to be assessed during ground‐based augmentation system planning at each airport, particularly, in equatorial and low‐latitude regions. In this work, we analyze the statistics of ionospheric delay gradients around Suvarnabhumi airport, Thailand. The ionospheric delay gradients are estimated using single‐frequency code and carrier phase observation through the Kalman filter. To increase the success of the ratio test, the satellite elimination technique is then proposed. Based on the analysis between 2013 and 2016, we find that the background ionospheric delay gradients during equinox are higher than solstice, especially during September equinox 2013 when the gradients are about 9 mm/km. Moreover, the ionospheric delay gradients are more variable during daytime than nighttime.

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“…Ionospheric delay gradients have been studied for both quiet (background) and disturbed periods (Koroglu et al, 2017;Rungraengwajiake et al, 2015;. For midlatitude region all over Europe (Schlüter et al, 2013) and Asia (Reddy, 2017;Z. Wang et al, 2017), the ionospheric disturbances do not frequently occur.…”

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Analysis of Quiet Time Vertical Ionospheric Delay Gradients Around Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand

2018

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“…In ( 5) to (7), for short baselines between receivers [26], the tropospheric delay is assumed to be constant, within a large area. Assuming that the single difference of tropospheric delay, TSD = 0, (5) and ( 7) together can be expressed in a matrix,…”

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Single-Frequency Time-Step Ionospheric Delay Gradient Estimation at Low-Latitude Stations

2020

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The irregularity of the local-area ionospheric delay is a primary impediment for Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) services. Excessive ionospheric delay gradients may degrade aircraft positioning for high precision landing systems. Therefore, the spatial gradients of the nominal background ionosphere must be studied as their statistics will be sent to the approaching aircraft. For the well-known stationpair method, ionospheric delay gradient estimation requires at least 2 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reference stations. This method can be applied to both single or dual-frequency GNSS receivers. However, when the GNSS stations are far apart, it is not suitable for estimating the ionospheric delay gradients at short baselines, and the time-step method is an attractive alternative. In this work, we propose a singlefrequency time-step method for ionospheric delay gradient estimation. Careful baseline length selection is needed, due to ionospheric piercing point movements. We applied our method to GNSS data in 2014, at the peak of the 24th solar cycle, and showed that the standard deviations of the vertical ionospheric delay gradients were comparable to those derived from the dual-frequency time-step method. The standard deviations of vertical ionospheric gradients, VIG, ranged between 4 and 6 mm/km. The VIG values around the equinoxes were ~1.5 mm/km greater than at other times.

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Investigation of anomalous ionospheric gradient effects on the performance of Indian GBAS

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Analysis of Quiet Time Vertical Ionospheric Delay Gradients Around Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand

Analysis of Quiet Time Vertical Ionospheric Delay Gradients Around Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand

Single-Frequency Time-Step Ionospheric Delay Gradient Estimation at Low-Latitude Stations

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