Carrier phase multipath mitigation based on GNSS signal quality measurements
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Christian Rost
Abstract
Carrier phase multipath caused by signal reflections in the vicinity of GNSS stations is a major error source of precise differential positioning. Detection and mitigation of carrier phase multipath errors can be based on signal quality values (e.g. signal-to-noise ratio values) as provided by GNSS receivers. These values are influenced by various factors as e.g. the actual strength of the transmitted signal, space loss, atmospheric effects, and antenna gain pattern. After their removal, deviations from nominal signal quality values mainly contain multipath information which can be used to calculate carrier phase multipath corrections. The described technique is valid only for observations collected in static mode and single dominant reflectors. Practical experiences show that corrections based on signal quality observations are able to remove a large portion of the carrier phase multipath errors.
© de Gruyter 2009
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