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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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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