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Volume 52 Supplement 10

Special Issue: Application of GPS and other space geodetic techniques to Earth Sciences (1)

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Improving ambiguity resolution by applying ionosphere corrections from a permanent GPS array

Earth, Planets and Space volume 52, pages 675–680 (2000)Cite this article

Abstract

Fast and high precision relative GPS positioning over distances up to 100 km is mainly limited by errors in the GPS signals due to propagation through the Earth’s ionosphere. With permanent GPS arrays, which are present in many countries nowadays, it becomes possible to correct a user’s GPS measurements to a certain extent for these ionospheric delays. A way to do so is to interpolate the ionospheric delays which have been estimated from the network of permanent stations. When these ‘interpolated corrections’ are applied to the user’s data, the ionospheric delays may be reduced, which may lead to an improved ambiguity resolution for his (long) baseline.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning, Delft University of Technology, Thijsseweg 11, 2629, JA Delft, The Netherlands

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Odijk, D. Improving ambiguity resolution by applying ionosphere corrections from a permanent GPS array. Earth Planet Sp 52, 675–680 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352262

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