Assessment of a TEC calibration procedure by single-frequency PPP

Autor(es)

Prol, Fabricio dos Santos ^[1] ; Camargo, Paulo de Oliveira ^[1] ; Galera Monico, Joao Francisco ^[1] ; de Assis Honorato Muella, Marcio Tadeu ^[2]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Roberto Simonsen 305, BR-19060900 Presidente Prudente, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Vale Paraiba, IP&D, Lab Fis & Astron, UNIVAP, BR-12244000 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: GPS SOLUTIONS; v. 22, n. 2 APR 2018.
• Citações Web of Science: 3

Resumo

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements have become an outstanding data source for ionospheric studies using total electron content (TEC) estimation procedures. Many methods for TEC estimation had been developed over recent decades, but none of them is capable of providing high accuracy for the single-frequency precise point positioning (PPP). We present an analysis of the performance of a new TEC calibration procedure when applied to PPP. TEC estimation is assessed by calculating the improvements obtained in single-frequency PPP in kinematic mode. A total of 120 days with six distinct configurations of base and rover stations was used, and the TEC performance is assessed by applying the estimated TEC from the base station to correct the ionospheric delay in a nearby rover receiver. The single-frequency PPP solution in the rover station reached centimeter accuracy similar to the ionospheric-free PPP solution. Further, the TEC calibration method presented an improvement of about 74% compared to the PPP using the global ionospheric maps. We, therefore, confirm that it is possible to estimate high-precision TEC for accurate PPP applications, which enables us to conclude that the principal challenge of the GNSS community developing ionospheric models is not the differential code bias or the temporal variation of the ionosphere, but the development of methods for accurate spatial interpolation of the slant TEC. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 15/15027-7 - Assimilação de dados para o imageamento tridimensional da ionosfera na região brasileira
• Beneficiário: Fabricio dos Santos Prol
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado