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<p>The dilution of precision (DOP) in satellite navigation system provides a simple characterization of the user–satellite geometry and a quantitative assessment of the positioning constellation configuration. The essential idea of physical augmentation factor of precision (PAFP) proposed in this work, is that navigation signals are transmitted at multiple frequencies from each visible satellite in the positioning constellation, while users measure the corresponding multiple pseudoranges of satellites to achieve high precision code positioning. As the multiple pseudoranges of one satellite are measured independently by the corresponding navigation signals at different frequencies, it is reasonable to treat the measurement errors due to the satellite clock and ephemeris, the atmospheric propagation as uncorrelated, random, and identically distributed. The multipath effects and receiver noise are also processed with some empirical models. By measuring user–satellite code pseudoranges at different frequencies, the PAFP offers a scheme that produces the same effect as that of the redundant-overlapping constellation, thus equivalently improving the geometric DOP. It can effectively improve code positioning precision of satellite navigation system.</p>
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The dilution of precision (DOP) in satellite navigation system provides a simple characterization of the user–satellite geometry and a quantitative assessment of the positioning constellation configuration. The essential idea of physical augmentation factor of precision (PAFP) proposed in this work, is that navigation signals are transmitted at multiple frequencies from each visible satellite in the positioning constellation, while users measure the corresponding multiple pseudoranges of satellites to achieve high precision code positioning. As the multiple pseudoranges of one satellite are measured independently by the corresponding navigation signals at different frequencies, it is reasonable to treat the measurement errors due to the satellite clock and ephemeris, the atmospheric propagation as uncorrelated, random, and identically distributed. The multipath effects and receiver noise are also processed with some empirical models. By measuring user–satellite code pseudoranges at different frequencies, the PAFP offers a scheme that produces the same effect as that of the redundant-overlapping constellation, thus equivalently improving the geometric DOP. It can effectively improve code positioning precision of satellite navigation system.

Physical Augmentation Factor of Precision in Gnss

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The dilution of precision (DOP) in satellite navigation system provides a simple characterization of the user–satellite geometry and a quantitative assessment...

No.	Min value of PAFP × conventional PDOP	Max value of PAFP × conventional PDOP	Mean value of PAFP × conventional PDOP
1 signal	1.33	3.54	1.89
4 signals	0.67	1.77	0.94
1,2,…,n-1,n signals	0.51	2.02	0.91
n,n-1,…,2,1 signals	0.61	2.27	0.96

Physical Augmentation Factor of Precision in Gnss

Publié en ligne: 21 oct. 2022

Pages: 185 - 193

Reçu: 18 oct. 2021

Accepté: 15 sept. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/arsa-2022-0009

Mots clés
satellite navigation system, positioning precision, DOP, PAFP

© 2022 Lihua Ma et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Figure 3.

Statistical results of the improvement of the PAFP

Physical Augmentation Factor of Precision in Gnss

Publié en ligne: 21 oct. 2022

Pages: 185 - 193

Reçu: 18 oct. 2021

Accepté: 15 sept. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/arsa-2022-0009

Mots cléssatellite navigation system, positioning precision, DOP, PAFP

© 2022 Lihua Ma et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Figure 1.

Figure 2.

Figure 3.

Statistical results of the improvement of the PAFP

Mots clés
satellite navigation system, positioning precision, DOP, PAFP