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The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation

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µ<br />

1.5<br />

1.45<br />

1.4<br />

1.35<br />

1.3<br />

1.25<br />

1.2<br />

1.15<br />

1.1<br />

1.05<br />

1<br />

0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02 0.025<br />

fail rate<br />

0.03 0.035 0.04 0.045 0.05<br />

Figure 5.18: Aperture parameter for OIA <strong>estimation</strong> as function of the fail rate. Black:<br />

determined with simulations; Grey solid: approximated using IAB <strong>estimation</strong>; Grey dashed:<br />

approximated using EIA <strong>estimation</strong>.<br />

be the case when the <strong>ambiguities</strong> are decorrelated, since then the bootstrapped <strong>and</strong> the<br />

ILS pull-in regions largely overlap. If that is the case the aperture parameter for OIA<br />

<strong>estimation</strong> is approximated as:<br />

µ ′ = fˇɛ(y)<br />

, (5.58)<br />

fâ(y)<br />

since then y is also an element of the boundary of Ω0,OIA. If the aperture pull-in regions<br />

of IAB <strong>and</strong> OIA would have a similar shape, this approximation may work well. However,<br />

it does not tell whether using µ ′ will give a larger or smaller fail rate than the fixed value<br />

that was used in order to determine µ ′ .<br />

This approach is illustrated for the 2-D example in figure 5.17. <strong>The</strong> IAB pull-in region for<br />

a fail rate of 0.025 is shown. <strong>The</strong> star shows y as determined with equation (5.57) 1 . <strong>The</strong><br />

resulting OIA pull-in region is shown with a solid line; y is an element of the boundary<br />

of this pull-in region. This ’approximated’ OIA pull-in region is smaller than the one for<br />

which Pf,OIA = 0.025 (dashed line).<br />

Figure 5.18 shows the OIA aperture parameter as function of the fail rate, where the<br />

aperture parameter is determined with simulations (see section 5.7.2), or approximated<br />

using IAB <strong>estimation</strong>. It can be seen that the approximated aperture parameter is too<br />

low, which means that Pf,OIA(µ ′ ) < β. In other words, for this example the OIA pull-in<br />

regions are always smaller than necessary if the aperture parameter is approximated using<br />

IAB <strong>estimation</strong>.<br />

A similar approach can be followed by using EIA <strong>estimation</strong>. <strong>The</strong>n a vector on the<br />

1 Note that if bootstrapping is applied, one starts with the first ambiguity which should be the most<br />

precise float ambiguity as was explained in section 3.1.2. For the example shown here, the second<br />

ambiguity is the most precise. Hence, y is permuted so that y = µ · 1<br />

2 c1.<br />

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