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A new method of ionospheric-free hybrid differential positioning based on a double-antenna CAPS receiver

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Chinese Area Positioning System (CAPS) is a transmitted satellite navigation system moved by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Three basic modes of navigation and positioning with CAPS are given, and then a comparative analysis is made in this paper. In terms of the principle that the ionospheric delay is at an inverse ratio to the frequency square, a new ionospheric-free positioning method based on a double-antenna CAPS receiver is put forward. Then the hybrid differential observations and the solving equations and algorithms for one epoch and multi epochs are deduced according to the basic principle of the method. The method may remove the global errors in signal emission, propagation, transmission and receiving (e.g., ionospheric delay, hardware delay, and clock error). So it is very convenient for the single-epoch solution and multi-epoch navigation and positioning, and may efficiently improve the precision of real time CAPS navigation. Furthermore, the method can be used not only for the geometric orbit determination of CAPS GEO and IGSO satellites and the navigation and positioning, but also for the estimation of the tropospheric zenith delay, which is useful for the study of water vapor changes in the atmosphere. Polynomials are used in this method to express the tropospheric zenith delay and CAPS satellite orbits within the limited time interval, which reduces the number of unknown parameters and thus speeds the computation.

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  1. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

    JinYun Guo & YanBen Han

  2. College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266510, China

    JinYun Guo

  3. Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing, 100039, China

    XiaoTao Chang

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Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KGCX1-21), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB815500), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2006AA12z303), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40774009), and the Special Project of Taishan Scholars of Shandong Province of China (Grant No. TSXZ0502)

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Guo, J., Han, Y. & Chang, X. A new method of ionospheric-free hybrid differential positioning based on a double-antenna CAPS receiver. Sci. China Ser. G-Phys. Mech. Astron. 52, 368–375 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-009-0054-9

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