Taking correlations into account: a diagonal correlation model

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)1895-1906
Seitenumfang12
FachzeitschriftGPS solutions
Jahrgang21
Ausgabenummer4
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 6 Sept. 2017

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The true covariance matrix of the GPS phase observations is unknown and has to be assumed or estimated. The variance of the least-squares residuals was empirically shown to have an elevation dependency and is often expressed as a sum of a constant and an exponential function. Disregarding correlations that are for instance due to atmospheric effects, the variance covariance matrices are diagonal. This simplification leads to errors in the estimates, including the float ambiguity vector, as well as to an overoptimistic precision. Thus, results of test statistics such as the outlier or the overall model test are impacted. For the particular case of GPS positioning, an innovative proposal was made to take correlations into account easily, condensed in an equivalent diagonal matrix. However, the a posteriori variance factor obtained with this simplification is strongly underestimated and in most cases the inversion of fully populated matrices has anyway to be carried out. In this contribution, we propose an alternative diagonal correlation model based on a simple exponential function to approximate the developed equivalent model. This way, correlations can be included in a diagonal variance covariance matrix without computation burden. A case study with an 80-km baseline where the ambiguities are estimated together with the coordinates in the least-squares adjustment demonstrates the potential of the model. It leads to a proposal based on the autocorrelation coefficient for fixing its parameters.

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Taking correlations into account: a diagonal correlation model. / Kermarrec, Gaël; Schön, Steffen.
in: GPS solutions, Jahrgang 21, Nr. 4, 06.09.2017, S. 1895-1906.

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Kermarrec G, Schön S. Taking correlations into account: a diagonal correlation model. GPS solutions. 2017 Sep 6;21(4):1895-1906. doi: 10.1007/s10291-017-0665-y
Kermarrec, Gaël ; Schön, Steffen. / Taking correlations into account : a diagonal correlation model. in: GPS solutions. 2017 ; Jahrgang 21, Nr. 4. S. 1895-1906.
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