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Precise point positioning with integer ambiguity resolution requires precise knowledge of satellite position, clock and phase bias corrections. In this paper, a method for the estimation of these parameters with a global network of reference stations is presented. The method processes uncombined and undifferenced measurements of an arbitrary number of frequencies such that the obtained satellite position, clock and bias corrections can be used for any type of differenced and/or combined measurements. We perform a clustering of reference stations. The clustering enables a common satellite visibility within each cluster and an efficient fixing of the double difference ambiguities within each cluster. Additionally, the double difference ambiguities between the reference stations of different clusters are fixed. We use an integer decorrelation for ambiguity fixing in dense global networks. The performance of the proposed method is analysed with both simulated Galileo measurements on E1 and E5a and real GPS measurements of the IGS network. We defined 16 clusters and obtained satellite position, clock and phase bias corrections with a precision of better than 2 cm.
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The authors would like to thank the International GNSS Service (IGS) [see Dow et al. (2009)] for providing the GNSS measurements and the orbital reference of this work.
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Henkel, P., Psychas, D., Günther, C. et al. Estimation of satellite position, clock and phase bias corrections. J Geod 92, 1199–1217 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-018-1146-y
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