Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012acasn..53...36p&link_type=abstract
Acta Astronomica Sinica, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 36-49
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Celestial Mechanics, Space Vehicles, Methods: Data Analysis
Scientific paper
With the availability of precise GPS ephemeris and clock solution, the ionospheric range delay is left as the dominant error sources in the post-processing of space-borne GPS data from single-frequency receivers. Thus, the removal of ionospheric effects is a major prerequisite for an improved orbit reconstruction of LEO satellites equipped with low cost single-frequency GPS receivers. In this paper, the use of Global Ionospheric Maps (GIM) in kinematic and dynamic orbit determination for LEO satellites with single-frequency GPS measurements is discussed first,and then, estimating the scale factor of ionosphere to remove the ionospheric effects in C/A code pseudo-range measurements in both kinematic and adynamia orbit defemination approaches is addressed. As it is known the ionospheric path delay of space-borne GPS signals is strongly dependent on the orbit altitudes of LEO satellites, we selected real space-borne GPS data from CHAMP, GRACE, TerraSAR-X and SAC-C satellites with altitudes between 300 km and 800 km as sample data in this paper. It is demonstrated that the approach of eliminating ionospheric effects in space-borne C/A code pseudo-range by estimating the scale factor of ionosphere is highly effective. Employing this approach, the accuracy of both kinematic and dynamic orbits can be improved notably. Among those five LEO satellites, CHAMP with the lowest orbit altitude has the most remarkable orbit accuracy improvements, which are 55.6% and 47.6% for kinematic and dynamic approaches, respectively. SAC-C with the highest orbit altitude has the least orbit accuracy improvements accordingly, which are 47.8% and 38.2%, respectively.
Peng Dong-Ju
Wu Baofeng
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