<p>Since significant progress has been made in reducing other systemic errors, the multipath effect has become a bottleneck for improving global instantaneous or single-epoch multi-constellation and multi-frequency precise point positioning (PPP) cascading ambiguity resolution (AR) (PPP-CAR). We compared the residual variance reduction percentages of multi-constellation and multi-frequency multipath models constructed with sidereal day filtering (SF), multipath hemispherical map (MHM), and trend surface analysis-based MHM (TMHM) methods. The effects of the MHM method decreased rapidly with decreasing resolution due to the reduced ability to capture high-frequency multipaths. The effects of the TMHM method did not change significantly because trend surface analysis mitigated both low-frequency and high-frequency multipaths. The SF model performed worse than the MHM<sub>0.5</sub> and TMHM<sub>1.0</sub> models due to sparse data sampling. Considering the computational efficiency and model accuracy, we selected the TMHM<sub>1.0</sub> model to mitigate multipath effects in the single-epoch PPP test. The test results indicated that multipath corrections substantially improved the reliability and accuracy of single-epoch PPP-CAR. This is because multipath corrections improved the observation accuracy, which increased the instant accuracy of float ambiguity. The instantaneous wide-lane AR was further improved, subsequently further enhancing the instantaneous narrow-lane AR. The most reliable solution was obtained with multipath corrections, as the same fixing rate of 99.8% was achieved for the uncorrected and corrected solutions. The RMSs of the instant positioning errors in the east, north, and up components decreased from 5.1, 5.3, and 18.5&#xa0;cm to 3.3, 3.6, and 11.2&#xa0;cm, respectively, with improvements of 35.3, 32.1, and 39.5%, respectively, for the uncorrected and corrected solutions.</p>

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Mitigation of multipath effects in global single-epoch multi-constellation and multi-frequency precise point positioning cascading ambiguity resolution

  • Lizhong Qu,
  • Mingyu Men,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Jingchao Li,
  • Kaifa Kuang,
  • Yiwei Du

摘要

Since significant progress has been made in reducing other systemic errors, the multipath effect has become a bottleneck for improving global instantaneous or single-epoch multi-constellation and multi-frequency precise point positioning (PPP) cascading ambiguity resolution (AR) (PPP-CAR). We compared the residual variance reduction percentages of multi-constellation and multi-frequency multipath models constructed with sidereal day filtering (SF), multipath hemispherical map (MHM), and trend surface analysis-based MHM (TMHM) methods. The effects of the MHM method decreased rapidly with decreasing resolution due to the reduced ability to capture high-frequency multipaths. The effects of the TMHM method did not change significantly because trend surface analysis mitigated both low-frequency and high-frequency multipaths. The SF model performed worse than the MHM0.5 and TMHM1.0 models due to sparse data sampling. Considering the computational efficiency and model accuracy, we selected the TMHM1.0 model to mitigate multipath effects in the single-epoch PPP test. The test results indicated that multipath corrections substantially improved the reliability and accuracy of single-epoch PPP-CAR. This is because multipath corrections improved the observation accuracy, which increased the instant accuracy of float ambiguity. The instantaneous wide-lane AR was further improved, subsequently further enhancing the instantaneous narrow-lane AR. The most reliable solution was obtained with multipath corrections, as the same fixing rate of 99.8% was achieved for the uncorrected and corrected solutions. The RMSs of the instant positioning errors in the east, north, and up components decreased from 5.1, 5.3, and 18.5 cm to 3.3, 3.6, and 11.2 cm, respectively, with improvements of 35.3, 32.1, and 39.5%, respectively, for the uncorrected and corrected solutions.