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Improving the GNSS Attitude Ambiguity Success Rate with the Multivariate Constrained LAMBDA Method

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GNSS Attitude Determination is a valuable technique for the estimation of platform orientation. To achieve high accuracies on the angular estimations, the GNSS carrier phase data has to be used. These data are known to be affected by integer ambiguities, which must be correctly resolved in order to exploit the higher precision of the phase observables with respect to the GNSS code data. For a set of GNSS antennae rigidly mounted on a platform, a number of nonlinear geometrical constraints can be exploited for the purpose of strengthening the underlying observation model and subsequently improving the capacity of fixing the correct set of integer ambiguities. A multivariate constrained version of the LAMBDA method is presented and tested here.

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Acknowledgements

P.J.G. Teunissen is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship (project number FF0883188): this support is gratefully acknowledged.

The research of S. Verhagen is supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW, applied science division of NWO and the Technology Program of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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  1. Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems (DEOS), Delft University of Technology, 5058, 2600, Delft, The Netherlands

    G. Giorgi, P. J. G. Teunissen, S. Verhagen & P. J. Buist

  2. Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia

    P. J. G. Teunissen

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    Steve Kenyon

  2. , Facultad de Ciencia Exactas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR), Av. Pellegrini 250, Rosario, 2000, Argentina

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  3. , Geodesy Department, Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Seftigenstrasse 264, Wabern, 3084, Switzerland

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Giorgi, G., Teunissen, P.J.G., Verhagen, S., Buist, P.J. (2012). Improving the GNSS Attitude Ambiguity Success Rate with the Multivariate Constrained LAMBDA Method. In: Kenyon, S., Pacino, M., Marti, U. (eds) Geodesy for Planet Earth. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20338-1_118

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