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Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) ultra-rapid clock offsets and orbit products are essential for near-real-time and real-time uses. To meet the requirements of accuracy and timeliness in high-accuracy applications, the issuing rates of ultra-rapid products are increased to six or three hours. However, there is an appreciable fluctuation of positioning residuals during the period of updating of products. To improve the performance of GNSS rapid services including the GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO and BeiDou, this paper proposes a method for updating satellite ultra-rapid clock offsets and orbits based on the covariance intersection algorithm, where kernel tricks are used to model the series in the position domain. Moreover, the parameter characteristics of the clock and orbit and the unknown inter-series correlation are considered in the model of satellite ultra-rapid products. Meanwhile, a sparse strategy is used in solving the model coefficients; i.e., the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) strategy. Several experimental schemes show that 1) jumps and gross errors in the GNSS ultra-rapid clock offset affect the modeling and services and should be detected and repaired before high-accuracy applications; 2) the updating of clock offsets and orbits reduces the steadiness of product services, while position residual fluctuations are introduced using GNSS precise point positioning solutions; 3) improved clock offset and orbit series can be obtained using the covariance intersection algorithm and kernel tricks; 4) the LASSO strategy can automatically and effectively choose and estimate the model coefficients of clock offset and orbit series; and 5) the proposed method can smooth the short-term arcs of GNSS products and positioning services by 29.8–99.5% for Multi-GNSS Experiment stations compared with original series. It is thus concluded that the proposed updating strategy is meaningful for improving GNSS satellite ultra-rapid products.
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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Colleges (Grant No. KJ2020A0310); the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFA0713502); the Anhui Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2108085QD173); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41874039) and the Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. BK20181361). The authors thank the International GNSS Monitoring and Assessment Service (iGMAS) for the use of its data and products. We also wish to thank all the anonymous reviewers and editors for their helpful comments and suggestions for the improvement of this paper.
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Chao Hu conceived and designed the experiments; Zhongyuan Wang and Chao Hu performed the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the paper; Chao Hu, Weicai Lv and Tong Cheng contributed to discussions and revisions.
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We set two groups of observations as y1 and y2. The matrix expression is
where e1 and e2 are the model errors and F1 and F2 are the observation functions. The co-factor matrix is thus written as
The solution to x is obtained from Eqs. (19) and (20) as
where \({\hat{\mathbf{Q}}}_{xx}\) is expressed as
Moreover, we obtain the covariance of \({\hat{\mathbf{x}}}\) as
We can further modify Eq. (23) as
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Hu, C., Wang, Z., Lv, W. et al. A method for updating GNSS satellite ultra-rapid clock offsets and orbits with the aid of a covariance intersection algorithm. Acta Geod Geophys 57, 63–84 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-022-00374-8
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