• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2018

The use of dual-frequency measurements from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) enables us to observe precise ionospheric total electron content (TEC). Currently, many GNSS reference stations in South Korea provide both GPS and GLONASS data. In the present study, we estimated the grid-based TEC values and relative receiver differential code biases (DCB) from a GNSS network operated by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. In addition, we compared the diurnal variations in a TEC time series from solutions of the GPS only, the GLONASS only, and combined GPS/GLONASS processing. A significant difference between the GPS only TEC and combined GPS/GLONASS TEC at a specific grid point over South Korea appeared near the solar terminator. It is noted that GLONASS measurements can contribute to observing a variation in ionospheric TEC over high latitude regions.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.3-8
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• 2006

The next decade promises drastic improvements and additions to global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Plans for GPS modernization include a civilian code measurement on the L2 frequency and a new L5 signal at 1176.45 MHz. Current speculations indicate that a fully operational constellation with these improvements could be available by 2013. Simultaneously, the Galileo Joint Undertaking is in the development and validation stages of introducing a parallel GNSS called Galileo. Galileo will also transmit freely available satellite navigation signals on three frequencies and is scheduled to be fully operational as early as 2008. In other words, a dual system receiver (e.g., GPS+GALILEO) for general users can access six civil frequencies transmitted by at least fifty eights navigation satellites in space. The advent of GALILEO and the modernization of GPS raise a lot of attention to the study of the compatibility and interoperability of the two systems. A number of performance analyses have been conducted in a global scale with respect to availability, reliability, accuracy and integrity in different simulated scenarios (such as open sky and urban canyons) for the two systems individually and when integrated. Therefore, the scope of this article aims at providing the technical benefits analysis for Taiwan specifically in terms of the performance indices mentioned above in a local scale, especially in typical urban canyon scenarios. The conclusions gained by this study will be applied by the Land Survey Bureau of Taiwanese as the guideline for developing future GNSS tracking facilities and dual GNSS processing module for precise surveying applications in static and kinematic modes.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.159-168
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• 2021

Precise Point Positioning-Real Time Kinematic (PPP-RTK) is an improved PPP method that provides the user receiver with satellite code and phase bias correction information in addition to the satellite orbit and clock, thus enabling single-receiver ambiguity resolution. Single station PPP-RTK concept is special case of PPP-RTK in that corrections are computed, instead of a network, by only one single GNSS receiver. This study is performed to experimentally verify the positioning accuracy performance of single baseline RTK level by a user who utilizes correction for a single station PPP-RTK using dual frequencies. As an experimental result, the horizontal and vertical 95% accuracy was 2.2 cm, 4.4 cm, respectively, which verify the same performance as the single baseline RTK.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2019

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) positioning has been widely used in geodesy, surveying, and navigation fields. RTK can benefit enormously from the integration of multi-GNSS. In this study, we develop a GPS/BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) RTK integration algorithm for long baselines ranging from 128 km to 335 km in South Korea. The positioning performance with GPS/BDS RTK, GPS-only RTK, and BDS-only RTK is compared in terms of the positioning accuracy. An improvement of positioning accuracy over long baselines can be found with GPS/BDS RTK compared with that of GPS-only RTK and that of BDS-only RTK. The positioning accuracy of GPS/BDS RTK is better than 2 cm in the horizontal direction and better than 5 cm in the vertical direction. A lower Relative Dilution of Precision (RDOP) value with GPS/BDS integration can obtain a better positional precision for long baseline RTK positioning.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.550-557
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• 2017

GNSS 측위 정확도에 영향을 주는 전리층 오차는 전리층에 존재하는 전자로 인해 위성의 전파가 굴절됨에 따라 발생하는데 태양활동 정도, 지역, 시간에 따라 그 값이 변한다. 정밀한 전리층 오차 추정이 가능한 이중주파수 수신기와 달리 단일 주파수 수신기의 경우에는 전리층 오차 모델이나 인근 고정기준국을 통해 제공 받는 의사거리 보정정보에 의존해야 한다. 하지만 일반적인 전리층 오차 경향과 달리, 국지적으로 전리층 총 전자수의 급격한 변화가 발생하는 경우 전리층 오차모델을 통한 오차 보정이 어려우며 만약 전리층의 변화가 고정기준국 상공의 전리층과 상이하다면, 의사거리 보정정보를 이용하여도 전리층 오차를 보정하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는, 이런 위험에 대처하기 위한 국지적 전리층 이상 현상에 대한 감시 기법에 대해 제안하고 실제 전리층 이상 현상이 발생한 데이터를 이용해 이를 검증하였다. 제시된 기법을 통해 전리층 이상 현상 발생 여부를 파악하고 단일 주파수 수신기 사용자의 항법해에 대한 신뢰도를 증가시킬 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2015

Global Positioning System (GPS) is used in various fields such as communications systems, transportation systems, e-commerce, power plant systems, and up to various military weapons systems recently. However, GPS receiver is vulnerable to jamming signals as the GPS signals come from the satellites located at approximately 20,000 km above the earth. For this reason, various anti-jamming techniques have been developed for military application systems especially and it is also required for commercial application systems nowadays. In this paper, we proposed a dual-channel Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) RF ASIC for digital pre-correlation anti-jam technique. It not only covers all GNSS frequency bands, but is integrated low-gain/attenuation mode in low-noise amplifier (LNA) without influencing in/out matching and 14-bit analogdigital converter (ADC) to have a high dynamic range. With the aid of digital processing, jamming to signal ratio is improved to 77 dB from 42 dB with proposed receiver. RF ASIC for anti-jam is fabricated on a 0.18-μm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology and consumes 1.16 W with 2.1 V (low-dropout; LDO) power supply. And the performance is evaluated by a kind of test hardware using the designed RF ASIC.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.121-128
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• 2023

When calculating the user's position using satellite signals, the signals originating from the satellite pass through the ionosphere and troposphere to the user. In particular, the ionosphere delay error that occurs when passing through the ionosphere delays when the signal is transmitted, generating a pseudorange error and position error at a large rate. Therefore, to improve position accuracy, it is essential to correct the ionosphere layer error. In a receiver capable of receiving dual frequency, the ionosphere error can be eliminated through a double difference, but in a single frequency receiver, an ionosphere correction model transmitted from a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellite is used. The popularly used Klobuchar model is designed to improve performance globally. As such, it does not perform perfectly in the Korea region. In this paper, the characteristics of the delay in the ionosphere in the Korean region are identified through an analysis of 10 years of data, and an improved ionosphere correction model for the Korean region is presented using the widely employed Klobuchar model. Through the proposed model, vertical position error can be improved by up to 40% relative to the original Klobuchar model in the Korea region.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2009

다목적실용위성-5호는 2010년 발사를 목표로 고도 550km의 저궤도에 위치하게 될 것이다. 다목적실용위성-5호의 임무인 고정밀 SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 영상을 처리하기 위해서는 정확한 위성의 위치(20cm) 와 속도(0.03cm/s)가 결정되어야 한다. 이러한 요구 조건은 한국 전자통신연구원에서 개발한 ETRI GNSS Precise Orbit Determination(EGPOD) 소프트웨어로 검증하였다. 0.1Hz 수신 주기의 SAC-C 위성 반송파위상 데이터로 정밀궤도결정을 수행하였다. 이중 주파수 GPS 데이터를 사용하여 수신 선호의 전리층 오차를 대부분 제거하고 이중 차분된 데이터를 생성함으로써 GPS 위성과 수신기의 공통된 시계 오차를 없앴다. 동역학 모델 접근 방법을 이용하였고, Batch Least Square Estimator(BLSE) 필터로 각 데이터 아크(arc) 에 해당하는 위성의 위치와 속도, 대기저항 계수, 태양풍 계수를 추정하였다. 또한 정밀한 동역학 모델을 위하여 모델 되지 않은 부정확한 가속도 항을 보충하는 경험 가속도를 추가하였다. 경험 가속도는 위성의 공전 주기(revolution) 당 한번씩 시선방향(radial), 진행방향(along-track), 수직방향(cross-track)으로 추정하고, 수직방향의 상수 항에 대해서는 해당 데이터 아크에 관하여 부가적으로 추정하였다. 정밀궤도결정 결과 검증을 위하여 EGPOD 소프트웨어에서 얻어진 결과와 JPL에서 제공하는 정밀궤도력(Precise Orbit Ephemeris)을 비교하였다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.235-243
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• 2018

Conventional Real Time Kinematics (RTK) collect measurements in stationary state for several minutes to resolve the integer ambiguity in the carrier phase measurement or resolve the integer ambiguity on the move assuming low maneuvering movement. In this paper, an On The Move-RTK (OTM-RTK) technique that resolves the integer ambiguity on the move for fast and precise positioning of ground vehicles such as high maneuvering vehicles was proposed. The OTM-RTK estimates the precise amount of movement between epochs using the carrier phase measurements acquired on the move, and by using this, resolves the integer ambiguity within a short period of time by evaluating the integer ambiguity candidates for each epoch. This study analyzed the integer ambiguity resolution performance using field driving experiment data in order to verify the performance of the proposed method. The results of the experiment showed that the precise trajectory including the initial position bias can be obtained prior to resolving the integer ambiguity, and after resolving the integer ambiguity on the move, it was possible to obtain the bias-corrected precise position solution. It was confirmed that the integer ambiguity can be resolved by collecting measurements of about 10 epochs from the moving vehicle using a dual frequency receiver.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2008

Japanese MSAS (Multi-functional Satellite Augmentation System) satellites have been transmitting GPS satellite orbit and ionosphere correction information since 2005. MSAS coverage includes Far East Asia, and it can improve the accuracy and integrity of GPS position solutions in Korea. This research analyzed the ionosphere correction information from the MSAS ionosphere correction data. The ionosphere delay data observed by a dual frequency receiver is compared with the MSAS ionosphere correction data. The variation of MSAS GIVE values are analyzed in connection with the equatorial anomaly and ionosphere scintillation.