Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for determining biases of satellite signals
- Patent Title (中): 确定卫星信号偏差的方法
-
Application No.: US12964559Application Date: 2010-12-09
-
Publication No.: US08451168B2Publication Date: 2013-05-28
- Inventor: Patrick Henkel , Zhibo Wen , Christoph Guenther
- Applicant: Patrick Henkel , Zhibo Wen , Christoph Guenther
- Applicant Address: DE
- Assignee: DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
- Current Assignee: DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
- Current Assignee Address: DE
- Agency: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens LLC
- Priority: EP09178573 20091209
- Main IPC: G01S19/07
- IPC: G01S19/07

Abstract:
A new method for bias estimation on multiple frequencies with a Kalman filter is proposed. It consists of four steps: First, a least-squares estimation of ranges, ionospheric delays, ambiguities, receiver phase biases and satellite phase biases is performed. The code biases are absorbed in the ranges and ionospheric delays, and a subset of ambiguities is mapped to the phase biases to remove linear dependencies between the unknown parameters. In a second step, the accuracy of the bias estimates is efficiently improved by a Kalman filter. The real-valued a posteriori ambiguity estimates are decorrelated by an integer ambiguity transformation to reduce the time of ambiguity resolution. Once the float ambiguities have sufficiently converged, they are fixed sequentially in a third step. Finally, a second Kalman filter is used to separate the receiver and satellite code biases and the tropospheric delays from the ranges.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110140958A1 METHOD FOR DETERMINING BIASES OF SATELLITE SIGNALS Public/Granted day:2011-06-16
Information query