TY - JOUR A1 - Tu, Rui A1 - Ge, Maorong A1 - Zhang, Hongping A1 - Huang, Guanwen T1 - The realization and convergence analysis of combined PPP based on raw observation JF - Advances in space research N2 - In order to speed up Precise Point Positioning (PPP)'s convergence, a combined PPP method with GPS and GLONASS which is based on using raw observations is proposed, and the positioning results and convergence time have been compared with that of single system. The ionospheric delays and receiver's Differential Code Bias (DCB) corrections are estimated as unknown parameters in this method. The numerical results show that the combined PPP has not caused significant impacts on the final solutions, but it greatly improved Position Dilution of Precision (PDOP) and convergence speed and enhanced the reliability of the solution. Meanwhile, the convergence speed is greatly influenced by the receiver's DCB, positioning results in horizontal which are better than 10 cm can be realized within 10 min. In addition, the ionosphere and DCB products can be provided with high precision. KW - GPS and GLONASS KW - Precise Point Positioning KW - Raw observation KW - DCB KW - Combine Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.03.005 SN - 0273-1177 VL - 52 IS - 1 SP - 211 EP - 221 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tu, Rui A1 - Zhang, Hongping A1 - Ge, Maorong A1 - Huang, Guanwen T1 - A real-time ionospheric model based on GNSS Precise Point Positioning JF - Advances in space research N2 - This paper proposes a method of real-time monitoring and modeling the ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) by Precise Point Positioning (PPP). Firstly, the ionospheric TEC and receiver's Differential Code Biases (DCB) are estimated with the undifferenced raw observation in real-time, then the ionospheric TEC model is established based on the Single Layer Model (SLM) assumption and the recovered ionospheric TEC. In this study, phase observations with high precision are directly used instead of phase smoothed code observations. In addition, the DCB estimation is separated from the establishment of the ionospheric model which will limit the impacts of the SLM assumption impacts. The ionospheric model is established at every epoch for real time application. The method is validated with three different GNSS networks on a local, regional, and global basis. The results show that the method is feasible and effective, the real-time ionosphere and DCB results are very consistent with the IGS final products, with a bias of 1-2 TECU and 0.4 ns respectively. KW - Ionospheric monitoring and modeling KW - Precise Point Positioning (PPP) KW - Real time KW - Total Electron Content (TEC) KW - Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) KW - Differential Code Biases (DCB) Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2013.06.015 SN - 0273-1177 SN - 1879-1948 VL - 52 IS - 6 SP - 1125 EP - 1134 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tu, Rui A1 - Ge, Maorong A1 - Wang, Rongjiang A1 - Walter, Thomas R. T1 - A new algorithm for tight integration of real-time GPS and strong-motion records, demonstrated on simulated, experimental, and real seismic data JF - Journal of seismology N2 - The complementary advantages of GPS and seismic measurements are well recognized in seismotectonic monitoring studies. Therefore, integrated processing of the two data streams has been proposed recently in an attempt to obtain accurate and reliable information of surface displacements associated with earthquakes. A hitherto still critical issue in the integrated processing is real-time detection and precise estimation of the transient baseline error in the seismic records. Here, we report on a new approach by introducing the seismic acceleration corrected by baseline errors into the state equation system. The correction is performed and regularly updated in short epochs (with increments which may be as short as seconds), so that station position, velocity, and acceleration can be constrained very tightly and baseline error can be estimated as a random-walk process. With the adapted state equation system, our study highlights the use of a new approach developed for integrated processing of GPS and seismic data by means of sequential least-squares adjustment. The efficiency of our approach is demonstrated and validated using simulated, experimental, and real datasets. The latter were collected at collocated GPS and seismic stations around the 4 April 2010, E1 Mayor-Cucapah earthquake (Mw, 7.2). The results have shown that baseline errors of the strong-motion sensors are corrected precisely and high-precision seismic displacements are real-timely obtained by the new approach. KW - High-rateGPS KW - Strong-motion records KW - Baseline error KW - Tight integration KW - Precise point positioning Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-013-9408-x SN - 1383-4649 SN - 1573-157X VL - 18 IS - 1 SP - 151 EP - 161 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER -