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EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1186/s40623-015-0307-y
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VLBI; Kalman filtering; Data analysis; Troposphere; Geodesy
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P24187-N21]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 24187] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P24187] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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In this paper, we demonstrate the advantage of applying a Kalman filter for the parameter estimation in very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) data analysis. We present the implementation of a Kalman filter in the VLBI software VieVS@GFZ. The performance is then investigated by looking at the accuracy obtained for various parameters, like baseline lengths, Earth Orientation Parameters, radio source coordinates, and tropospheric delays. The results are compared to those obtained when the classical least squares method (LSM) is applied for the parameter estimation, where clocks and zenith wet delays are estimated with 30-min intervals and gradients with 120-min intervals. We show that the accuracy generally is better for the Kalman filter solution, for example, the baseline length repeatabilities are on average about 10 % better compared to the LSM solution. We also discuss the possibilities to use the Kalman filter to estimate sub-diurnal station position variations and show that the variations caused by solid Earth tides can be retrieved with an accuracy of about 2 cm.
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