Using Filtered and Semicontinuous High Rate GPS for Monitoring Deformations
Publication: Journal of Surveying Engineering
Volume 136, Issue 2
Abstract
Multipath is a major sidereally repeating error affecting precise GPS positioning and deformation monitoring. Because satellite-receiver geometry repeats almost exactly every sidereal day, filtering can reduce multipath in near-static situations. Here, we investigate how sidereal filtering can be used in a switched multiantenna array system providing semicontinuous GPS data, which may be adopted in order to reduce hardware costs. Depending on the receiver’s setup, the optimum session switching interval is 119 s or a multiple thereof. This provides sufficient reliable epochs using a short switching interval, and is synchronized with the appropriate geometry repeat interval for sidereal filter application. The semicontinuous sidereally filtered GPS technique is efficient in detecting horizontal and vertical displacements, surpassing 5 and 8 mm precision, respectively, per epoch in near-static environments with moderately high multipath. This provides the capability of monitoring deformations occurring at periods greater than double the switching interval, although it can also be used for monitoring rapid structural deformations despite data gaps which may affect temporal resolution. Consequently, this combined method presents an efficient, cost-effective, and precise GPS technique.
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Journal of Surveying Engineering
Volume 136 • Issue 2 • May 2010
Pages: 72 - 79
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Received: Dec 23, 2008
Accepted: Jul 31, 2009
Published online: Sep 3, 2009
Published in print: May 2010
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