Investigation of Instantaneous Carrier Phase Ambiguity Resolution with the GPS/Galileo Combination using the General Ambiguity Search Criterion

Abstract

The success of high-precision Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) kinematic positioning depends partly on the ability to resolve the integer phase ambiguities. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for instantaneous kinematic ambiguity resolution, for present and modernised GPS and for GALILEO. This approach-the GEneral Criterion Cascading Ambiguity Resolution (GECCAR)-selects the integer set of ambiguities using the General Ambiguity Search Criterion (GASC). Simulation runs have shown that single-epoch L1/E1 frequency ambiguity resolution was possible 99% of the considered epochs, when the three frequencies from both systems were used together. This new approach shows an improvement in the selection of the correct set of ambiguities when compared with the selection made by the Integer Least Squares Criterion (ILSC). We conclude that the GECCAR approach is a very promising algorithm for instantaneous ambiguity resolution.