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The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation

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success rate<br />

percentage identical<br />

0.7<br />

0.6<br />

0.5<br />

0.4<br />

0.3<br />

0.2<br />

0.1<br />

0<br />

0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02 0.025 0.03 0.035 0.04 0.045 0.05<br />

fail rate<br />

1<br />

0.99<br />

0.98<br />

0.97<br />

0.96<br />

0.95<br />

0.94<br />

0.93<br />

0.92<br />

0.91<br />

DTIA<br />

RTIA<br />

OIA<br />

IALS<br />

EIA<br />

0.9<br />

0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02 0.025 0.03 0.035 0.04 0.045 0.05<br />

fail rate<br />

success rate<br />

percentage identical<br />

0.12<br />

0.1<br />

0.08<br />

0.06<br />

0.04<br />

0.02<br />

0<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 />

1<br />

0.99<br />

0.98<br />

0.97<br />

0.96<br />

0.95<br />

0.94<br />

0.93<br />

0.92<br />

0.91<br />

DTIA<br />

RTIA<br />

OIA<br />

IALS<br />

EIA<br />

0.9<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 5.19: Top: Success rate as function of the fail rate; Bottom: percentages of solutions<br />

identical to OIA. Left: example 06 01. Right: example 06 02.<br />

quite well. <strong>The</strong> EIA estimator only performs well for examples 06 01 <strong>and</strong> 06 02. <strong>The</strong><br />

performance of the F -RTIA estimator seems to be much worse than the performance of<br />

the other estimators. <strong>The</strong> reason is that the F -RTIA estimator does not only consider<br />

the ambiguity residuals, but also the residuals of the float solution, so that the aperture<br />

space is not n-dimensional, but (m − p)-dimensional.<br />

Figures 5.19 <strong>and</strong> 5.20 show the success rates as function of the fail rate for those IA<br />

estimators that perform reasonably well; only low fail rates are considered. DTIA, RTIA<br />

<strong>and</strong> IALS <strong>estimation</strong> perform well for all examples: the success rates are almost equal<br />

to the OIA success rate, <strong>and</strong> the percentage of solutions identical to the OIA solution<br />

is high. For examples 06 01 <strong>and</strong> 06 02 the RTIA estimator performs best after OIA<br />

<strong>estimation</strong>; for examples 10 01 <strong>and</strong> 10 03 the DTIA estimator performs better than<br />

RTIA <strong>estimation</strong>. EIA <strong>estimation</strong> only performs well for example 06 02.<br />

Until now the performance of the IA estimators is solely based on the ambiguity success<br />

rates <strong>and</strong> fail rates. Of course, a user is more interested in the probability that the<br />

baseline estimate will be within a certain distance from the true baseline:<br />

P ( ˙ b − b 2 Q˙ b ≤ ɛ) (5.60)<br />

where ˙ b is either the float, fixed, or IA baseline estimator. <strong>The</strong> vc-matrices Qˇ b <strong>and</strong> Q¯ b<br />

can be determined from the estimates corresponding to the simulated float <strong>ambiguities</strong>.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se probabilities are difficult to interpret, but will be considered for completeness,<br />

because they tell something about the distributional properties of the baseline estimators.<br />

Comparison of the different IA estimators 121

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