Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app8081254
Keywords
precise point positioning (PPP); international time transfer; GLONASS; inter-frequency code biases (IFCBs)
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41104021, 11173026, 11703033]
- National R&D Infrastructure and Facility Development Program of China [DKA2017-12-02-24]
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International time transfer based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) precise point positioning (PPP) is influenced by inter-frequency code biases (IFCBs) because of the application of frequency division multiple access technique. This work seeks to gain insight into the influence of GLONASS IFCBs on international time transfer based on GLONASS-only PPP. With a re-parameterization process, three IFCB handling schemes are proposed: neglecting IFCBs, estimating IFCB for each GLONASS frequency number, and estimating IFCB for each GLONASS satellite. Observation data collected from 39 globally distributed stations in a 71-day period (DOY 227-297, 2017) was exclusively processed. For the comparison reason, Global Positioning System (GPS)-only PPP solutions were regarded as reference values. The clock differences derived from GPS- and GLONASS-only PPP solutions were then analyzed. The experimental results demonstrated that considering GLONASS IFCBs could reduce standard deviation (STD) of the clock differences for both identical receiver types and mixed receiver types, of which reduction was from 3.3% to 62.6%. Furthermore, compared with neglecting IFCBs, STD of the clock differences with estimating IFCB for each GLONASS satellite in coordinate-fixed mode was reduced by more than 30% from 0.30 to 0.20 ns, and by 10% from 0.40 to 0.35 ns, for 1-day arc solutions and 10-day arc solutions, respectively. Moreover, different precise products from three International GNSS Service (IGS) analysis centers were also evaluated. Even though different IFCB handling schemes were adopted in GLONASS satellite clock estimation, our numerical results showed that international time transfer on the basis of estimating IFCB for each GLONASS satellite better than the other two processing schemes. To achieve high-precision GLONASS-only PPP-based international time transfer, it is highly recommended to estimate IFCB for each GLONASS satellite.
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