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The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation

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variane ratio<br />

1.4<br />

1.2<br />

1<br />

0.8<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

0.2<br />

success rate<br />

fixed / float<br />

BIE / float<br />

fixed / BIE<br />

0<br />

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200<br />

number of epochs<br />

Figure 4.3: Variance ratios of: BIE <strong>and</strong> float estimator; BIE <strong>and</strong> fixed estimator; fixed <strong>and</strong><br />

float estimator. Success rate as function of the number of epochs is also shown.<br />

4.3.1 <strong>The</strong> 1-D case<br />

Monte Carlo simulations were carried out to generate 500,000 samples of the float range<br />

<strong>and</strong> ambiguity, using the geometry-free single frequency GPS model for k epochs, with<br />

vc-matrix:<br />

Qâ Q â ˆ bk<br />

Qˆ bkâ<br />

Qˆ bk<br />

<br />

=<br />

σ 2<br />

p<br />

kλ2 (1 + ε) − σ2 p<br />

− σ2<br />

p<br />

kλ 2<br />

kλ2 σ 2<br />

p 1<br />

1+ε ( k<br />

with λ the wavelength of the carrier; σ2 p <strong>and</strong> σ2 φ are the variances of the DD code<br />

<strong>and</strong> phase observations respectively, <strong>and</strong> ε = σ2 φ /σ2 p. For all simulations, the st<strong>and</strong>ard<br />

deviations were chosen as σp = 30 cm <strong>and</strong> σφ = 3 mm. <strong>The</strong> number of epochs was<br />

varied. Note that in the one-dimensional case the fixed ambiguity estimator is obtained<br />

by simply rounding the float estimator to the nearest <strong>integer</strong>.<br />

+ ε)<br />

Figure 4.2 shows the parameter distributions of all three estimators for k = 20, based<br />

on the simulation results. Note that the multi-modality of the distribution of the BIE<br />

range estimator is less pronounced than that of the fixed range estimator. For smaller<br />

k the distribution of the BIE ambiguity <strong>and</strong> range estimator would resemble the normal<br />

PDF of the float estimators. For larger k, <strong>and</strong> thus higher precision, the distribution of<br />

the BIE estimators would more <strong>and</strong> more resemble those of the fixed estimators.<br />

From equation (4.7) follows that the BIE baseline estimator has smallest variance, but in<br />

the limits of the precision the variance will become equal to the variance of the float <strong>and</strong><br />

fixed estimator. This is illustrated in figure 4.3, where the variance ratio of the different<br />

estimators is shown as function of k. Also the success rate is shown. Indeed, for small<br />

k the variance of the BIE <strong>and</strong> the float estimator are equal to each other (ratio equals<br />

74 Best Integer Equivariant <strong>estimation</strong>

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