Influence of the Cutoff Angle and the Bearing in High-Precision GPS Vector Determination
Publication: Journal of Surveying Engineering
Volume 133, Issue 2
Abstract
Accurate global positioning system (GPS) vector determination is now one of the major applications in modern geodesy. Most of the errors are modeled either to smooth atmospheric effects or to remove biases, such as clock offsets. The network design criteria and the vector processing solutions are based in distances to the reference stations and in the time span of the vectors involved in the sessions. Thus, the final solutions are computed accurately and the residuals show the quality of the computations. What is not usually taken into account in the final vector computation is the bearing of the vector to be processed, as the cutoff angle is considered fixed. This note deals with the variation on the final solution due to different cutoff angles, and still more importantly to the bearing of the vector in high- precision GPS vector determination. If in the future, the International Global Navigation Satellite System Service starts to distribute orbits that are created using the ANTEX file, this elevation-angle dependency should diminish.
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Acknowledgments
The writers are thankful to S. Hilla and T. Soler, from the National Geodetic Survey, NOAA, for their help and the comments provided during the preparation of this investigation.
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Received: Aug 4, 2006
Accepted: Oct 23, 2006
Published online: May 1, 2007
Published in print: May 2007
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