Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13061202
Keywords
residual tropospheric delay; model corrections; SPP solution; vertical influence
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41504022]
- Shanghai Natural Science Foundation [20ZR1462000]
- Open Research Fund Program of LIESMARS [19R02]
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This study analyzed the biases introduced by residual tropospheric delay on SPP solutions when using 9 different Zenith Tropospheric Delay models, showing that the biases mainly occur in the vertical direction and significant discrepancies are observed among different models at different geographical locations.
The tropospheric delay is one of the main error sources that degrades the accuracy of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Single Point Positioning (SPP). Although an empirical model is usually applied for correction and thereby to improve the positioning accuracy, the residual tropospheric delay is still drowned in measurement noise, and cannot be further compensated by parameter estimation. How much this type of residual error would sway the SPP positioning solutions on a global scale are still unclear. In this paper, the biases on SPP solutions introduced by the residual tropospheric delay when using nine conventionally Zenith Tropospheric Delay (ZTD) models are analyzed and discussed, including Saastamoinen+norm/Global Pressure and Temperature (GPT)/GPT2/GPT2w/GPT3, University of New Brunswick (UNB)3/UNB3m, European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) and Vienna Mapping Functions (VMF)3 models. The accuracies of the nine ZTD models, as well as the SPP biases caused by the residual ZTD (dZTD) after model correction are evaluated using International GNSS Service (IGS)-ZTD products from around 400 globally distributed monitoring stations. The seasonal, latitudinal, and altitudinal discrepancies are analyzed respectively. The results show that the SPP solution biases caused by the dZTD mainly occur on the vertical direction, nearly to decimeter level, and significant discrepancies are observed among different models at different geographical locations. This study provides references for the refinement and applications of the nine ZTD models for SPP users.
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