Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Navigation-satellite tracking method and receiving station
- Patent Title (中): 导航卫星跟踪方法和接收台
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Application No.: US12580173Application Date: 2009-10-15
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Publication No.: US08134498B2Publication Date: 2012-03-13
- Inventor: Francisco Amarillo Fernandez , Gustavo López-Risueño
- Applicant: Francisco Amarillo Fernandez , Gustavo López-Risueño
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: European Space Agency
- Current Assignee: European Space Agency
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP
- Priority: EP08166875 20081017
- Main IPC: G01S19/42
- IPC: G01S19/42

Abstract:
A navigation-satellite tracking method includes determining one-way range unambiguous observations for each of a set of satellites in view, wherein standard tracking channels are permanently associated to each of the satellites. Determining the one-way range unambiguous observations may include determining one-way range unambiguous and one-way range ambiguous observations with a nearly-hemispherical antenna at a measurement time tA for each satellite out of the set of satellites in view simultaneously; sequentially determining an additional one-way range unambiguous observation and an additional one-way range ambiguous observation with at respectively different further measurement times tA+kΔt; and transforming, satellite per satellite, the additional one-way range unambiguous observations in one-way range unambiguous observations referred to a common future time, wherein this transformation is achieved by adding to each of the one-way range unambiguous observations the temporal evolution of the one-way range ambiguous observations of the respective satellite.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100171653A1 Navigation-Satellite Tracking Method and Receiving Station Public/Granted day:2010-07-08
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