The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation
The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation
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 />
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