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Chapter 7 <strong>Orbit</strong> <strong>Determination</strong> Using Carrier Phase Observation<br />

The observation equation Eq.(7-2) can be used with Kalman filter or batch processing to determine the satellite<br />

orbit. The advantage is that there are no initial ambiguities in Doppler measurements. Due to slow changes <strong>of</strong> the<br />

line-<strong>of</strong>-sight between tracking station and GEO satellite, it is difficult to determine a GEO satellite orbit using<br />

Doppler observations. This problem will be further shown in §7.2.2.<br />

7.1.3 Effects <strong>of</strong> Initial Ambiguities on <strong>Orbit</strong> <strong>Determination</strong><br />

Initial ambiguities will affect the accuracy <strong>of</strong> satellite orbit determination, which can be evaluated below.<br />

Rewriting Eq.(7-1):<br />

2 2 2<br />

i i i i i<br />

ρ = ( x − x) + ( y − y) + ( z − z) + λN<br />

Differentiating Eq.(7-3),<br />

1<br />

∆ρi = [( xi − x) ∆x+ ( yi − y) ∆y+ ( zi − z) ∆z] + λ∆Ni<br />

(7-4)<br />

ρ′<br />

where,<br />

2 2 2<br />

i i i<br />

ρ ′= ( x − x) + ( y − y) + ( z −z)<br />

Assuming that the accuracy <strong>of</strong> ∆x, ∆y, ∆z<br />

are equal and ∆ρ = 0 . The vectors<br />

ϖ ϖ ϖ ϖ<br />

r = xi + yj + zk �<br />

ϖ ϖ ϖ ϖ ��<br />

ri = xii + yij + zik �<br />

ϖ ϖ ϖ�<br />

∆r = ∆xi + ∆yj + ∆zk��<br />

Then Eq.(7-4) becomes<br />

λN<br />

i<br />

ϖ ϖ ϖ ϖ ϖ ϖ<br />

( r − r r r r r θ<br />

i ) ∆ − i ∆ cos<br />

= ϖ ϖ = ϖ ϖ<br />

r − r r − r<br />

i<br />

letting θ=0, Eq.(7-6) can be written as<br />

λN r<br />

i =∆ϖ<br />

i<br />

86<br />

(7-3)<br />

ϖ ϖ<br />

r, ri and ∆ ϖ r can be expressed as<br />

Eq.(7-7) shows the influence <strong>of</strong> initial ambiguity on the accuracy <strong>of</strong> orbit determination. Using GPS L1<br />

frequency as an example, one cycle error in the initial ambiguity will cause 0.19 meter error in satellite orbit.<br />

7.1.4 Kalman Filter for <strong>Orbit</strong> <strong>Determination</strong> using Carrier Phase Observation<br />

Using the Kalman filter and carrier-phase observations to determine IGSO, GEO and MEO satellite orbits, the<br />

initial ambiguities should be included as system parameters in the satellite dynamical model or as non-random<br />

parameters in observation equations. The float solutions are obtained as Kalman filter processes the incoming<br />

observations. In order to fix the float ambiguities to integers, it is necessary to take special strategies such as bias<br />

optimizing (Blewitt, 1989), LAMBDA (Teunissen 1994 and Jonge et al, 1996), TCAR (Harris, 1996 and Forssell<br />

et al 1997), etc..<br />

Assuming that the state variance is ϖ x = {, x y, z,&, x y&, z&, N1, N2, N3 ,..., Nn} in which n is the number <strong>of</strong> tracking<br />

stations, the satellite movement equation has a following form,<br />

� f1<br />

�<br />

ϖ<br />

�<br />

dx<br />

f �<br />

ϖ<br />

= f x t t = � 2<br />

[ ( ), ] �<br />

dt<br />

�...<br />

�<br />

� �<br />

� fn �<br />

(7-5)<br />

(7-6)<br />

(7-7)<br />

(7-8)

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