The methods of Earth rotation parameter (ERP) estimation based on IGS SINEX file of GPS solution are discussed in detail. There are two different ways to estimate ERP: one is the parameter transformation method, and t...The methods of Earth rotation parameter (ERP) estimation based on IGS SINEX file of GPS solution are discussed in detail. There are two different ways to estimate ERP: one is the parameter transformation method, and the other is direct adjustment method with restrictive conditions. By comparing the estimated results with independent copyright program to IERS results, the residual systemic error can be found in estimated ERP with GPS observations.展开更多
This paper focuses on the integration and data transformation between GPS and totalstation.It emphasizes on the way to transfer the WGS84 Cartesian coordinates to the local two_dimensional plane coordinates and the or...This paper focuses on the integration and data transformation between GPS and totalstation.It emphasizes on the way to transfer the WGS84 Cartesian coordinates to the local two_dimensional plane coordinates and the orthometric height GPS receiver,totalstation,radio,notebook computer and the corresponding software work together to form a new surveying system,the super_totalstation positioning system(SPS) and a new surveying model for terrestrial surveying.With the help of this system,the positions of detail points can be measured.展开更多
The morphology of the gully longitudinal profile (GLP) is an important topographic index of the gully bottom associated with the evolution of the gullies. This index can be used to predict the development trend and ...The morphology of the gully longitudinal profile (GLP) is an important topographic index of the gully bottom associated with the evolution of the gullies. This index can be used to predict the development trend and evaluate the eroded volumes and soil losses by gullying. To depict the morphology of GLP and understand its controlling factors, the Global Positioning System Real-time Kinematic (GPS RTK) and the total station were used to measure the detail points along the gully bottom of 122 gullies at six sites of the Yuanmou dry-hot Valley. Then, nine parameters including length (Lt), horizontal distance (Dh), height (H), vertical erosional area (A), vertical curvature (Co), concavity (Ca), average gradient (Ga), gully length-gradient index (GL), normalized gully length-gradient index (Ngl), were calculated and mapped using CASS, Excel and SPSS. The results showed that this study area is dominated by slightly concave and medium gradient GLPs, and the lithology of most gullies is sandstone and siltstone. Although different types of GLPs appear at different sites, all parameters present a positively skewed distribution. There are relatively strong correlations between several parameters: namely Lt and H, Dh and H, Lt and A, Dh and A, H and GL. Most GLPs, except three, have a best fit of exponential functions with quasi- straight shapes. Soil properties, vegetation coverage, piping erosion and topography are important factors to affect the GLP morphology. This study provides useful insight into the knowledge of GLP morphology and its influential factors that are of critical importance to prevent and control gully erosion.展开更多
To obtain the GLONASS satellite position at an epoch other than reference time,the satellite’s equation of motion has to be integrated with broadcasting ephemerides.The iterative detecting and repairing method of cyc...To obtain the GLONASS satellite position at an epoch other than reference time,the satellite’s equation of motion has to be integrated with broadcasting ephemerides.The iterative detecting and repairing method of cycle slips based on triple difference residuals for combined GPS/GLONASS positioning and the iterative ambiguity resolution approach suitable for combined post processing positioning are discussed systematically.Experiments show that millimeter accuracy can be achieved in short baselines with a few hours’ dual frequency or even single frequency GPS/GLONASS carrier phase observations,and the precision of dual frequency observations is distinctly higher than that of single frequency observations.展开更多
The method of integrated data processing for GPS and INS(inertial navigation system) field test over the Rocky Mountains using the adaptive Kalman filtering technique is presented. On the basis of the known GPS output...The method of integrated data processing for GPS and INS(inertial navigation system) field test over the Rocky Mountains using the adaptive Kalman filtering technique is presented. On the basis of the known GPS outputs and the offset of GPS and INS, state equations and observations are designed to perform the calculation and improve the navigation accuracy. An example shows that with the method the reliable navigation parameters have been obtained.展开更多
The technique of precise point positioning (PPP) is gradually becoming a popular method in GPS data-processing. In GPS observation equation, the unknown parameters can be separated into two parts: global parameters an...The technique of precise point positioning (PPP) is gradually becoming a popular method in GPS data-processing. In GPS observation equation, the unknown parameters can be separated into two parts: global parameters and local parameters. The global parameters include orbit, satellite clock and geodynamic parameters. The local parameters are site-occupation-specific, such as position, tropospheric delay, etc. The formulas of local parameters are firstly derived under the network-solution and the PPP-solution conditions respectively. If the weight matrix of global parameters in PPP-solution is small enough, the cofactor matrices of local parameters are the same as that in network-solution. Then, 16 daily solutions are obtained in both PPP mode and network mode. Three sites are selected to compare the solutions. The experimental results demonstrated that the difference between two solutions in coordinates and tropospheric delays are only few millimeters. This level of difference can be neglected so that the solutions from both PPP mode and network mode can be taken as the same in the actual application.展开更多
This paper presents a data fusion method in distributed multi-sensor system including GPS and INS sensors’ data processing. First, a residual χ 2 \|test strategy with the corresponding algorithm is designed. Then a ...This paper presents a data fusion method in distributed multi-sensor system including GPS and INS sensors’ data processing. First, a residual χ 2 \|test strategy with the corresponding algorithm is designed. Then a coefficient matrices calculation method of the information sharing principle is derived. Finally, the federated Kalman filter is used to combine these independent, parallel, real\|time data. A pseudolite (PL) simulation example is given.展开更多
Focusing on carrying out GPS occultation observat io ns with a receiver set on LEO satellite, this paper develops the LEO orbit simul ation system based on which the occultation events can be simulated taking into acc...Focusing on carrying out GPS occultation observat io ns with a receiver set on LEO satellite, this paper develops the LEO orbit simul ation system based on which the occultation events can be simulated taking into account the geometric relationship of the satellites and the field of view of th e receiver antenna. In this paper, the impacts of 4 types of LEO orbit parameter s including argument of latitude (AOL), right ascension of ascending node (RAAN) , orbit height and orbit inclination on the distribution and number of occultati on events observed with a single LEO satellite are discussed through simulat ion and some conclusions are drawn.展开更多
By using observed CHAMP orbit ephemeredes and MSISE90 dry air model and regarding the earth as a sphere and an ellipsoid respectively, phase delays are simulated and the simulated data are retrieved under different sc...By using observed CHAMP orbit ephemeredes and MSISE90 dry air model and regarding the earth as a sphere and an ellipsoid respectively, phase delays are simulated and the simulated data are retrieved under different schemes. The comparison between the inverted temperature profiles and the model temperature profiles shows that by inverting observed data, we will get temperature results with large errors if the effect of Earth’s oblateness is omitted. The correction method is proved to be effective because the temperature errors decreased obviously with this method.展开更多
To better understand the mechanism of the Mw6.3 L'Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake occurred in 2009, global positioning system (GPS) and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data were used to deriv...To better understand the mechanism of the Mw6.3 L'Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake occurred in 2009, global positioning system (GPS) and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data were used to derive the coseismic slip distribution of the earthquake fault. Firstly, based on the homogeneous elastic half-space model, the fault geometric parameters were solved by the genetic algorithm. The best fitting model shows that the fault is a 13.7 km×14.1 km rectangular fault, in 139.3° strike direction and 50.2° southwest-dipping. Secondly, fixing the optimal fault geometric parameters, the fault plane was extended and discretized into 16× 16 patches, each with a size of 1 kmx 1 krn, and the non-uniform slip distribution of the fault was inverted by the steepest descent method with an appropriate smoothing ratio based on the layered crustal structure model. The preferred solution shows that the fault is mainly a normal fault with slight right-lateral strike slip, the maximum slip of 1.01 m is located in the depth of 8.28 km, the average rake is -100.9°, and the total geodetic moment is about 3.34× 1018 N.m (Mw 6.28). The results are much closer than previous studies in comparison with the seismological estimation. These demonstrate that the coseismic fault slip distribution of the L'Aauila earthauake inverted by the crustal model considering layered characters is reliable.展开更多
The characteristics of three GPS kinematic data processing models, Least Squares (LS), Kalman filtering and filtering are discussed and their advantages and disadvantages are compared. With observational data and p...The characteristics of three GPS kinematic data processing models, Least Squares (LS), Kalman filtering and filtering are discussed and their advantages and disadvantages are compared. With observational data and pertinent data processing software, the applicable condition, context and effect of the three models are experimented. Results show that when the mobile platform is in uniform motion, the accuracy of the three models are almost equal; when the mobile platform is in stochastic acceleration, the accuracy of H∞ filtering model is superior to that of LS, while that of Kalman filtering is the worst.展开更多
With the development of GPS carrier wave phase technology, it becomes possible that the height accuracy of centimeter level is got by GPS RTK technology. Vessel attitudes are very important parameters in marine survey...With the development of GPS carrier wave phase technology, it becomes possible that the height accuracy of centimeter level is got by GPS RTK technology. Vessel attitudes are very important parameters in marine survey. In this paper, they were determined by 4 GPS receivers. At the same time, the arithmetic and procedure of vessel attitude determining were given. Based on an experiment, some useful conclusions were obtained and the corresponding methods were put forward to improve the accuracy.展开更多
Soil moisture is a key parameter in agricultural irrigation. The L band(1.58GHz) on board global position system (GPS) satellite is well suited for monitoring the change of soil moisture. In order to investigate t...Soil moisture is a key parameter in agricultural irrigation. The L band(1.58GHz) on board global position system (GPS) satellite is well suited for monitoring the change of soil moisture. In order to investigate the potential of retrieving soil moisture using the L-band GPS bistatic radar, this paper analyzed a retrieval method by using field experiment data. In order to investigate the relation- ship between the soil moisture ( corresponding roughly to the 0 - 5cm top soil layer) and the signal- to-noise ratio (PT-S-R) to the direct GPS signal-to-noise ratio (Pd_sNR), an experiment was conducted in Hulunber grassland of China in 2009 and 2011. Six field sites in the soil moisture experiment were utilized to analyze the relationship between soil moisture and the ratio of Pr-SNR to Pd-SN~ and the square of correlation coefficient was about 0.9 when the surface type was known and the elevation angle of the satellite ranged from 65 to 85 degrees approximately. The analysis shows that ratio of Pr-SNR to Pd-SNR can be used to monitor the soil moisture, because the ratio of Pr-SVR to Pd-SNR maxi- mized the elimination of the influence of different signals from different GPS satellites. The estimation accuracy could be improved if we make full use of the empirical knowledge on elevation angles of GPS satellites and ground roughness of different surface types.展开更多
TCMs (traffic calming measures) are commonly installed in order to reduce speeds and volumes of traffic to acceptable levels and, thus, improve traffic safety as well as environmental impact when designed appropriat...TCMs (traffic calming measures) are commonly installed in order to reduce speeds and volumes of traffic to acceptable levels and, thus, improve traffic safety as well as environmental impact when designed appropriately as a corridor or aerial implementation with proper spacing. Hence in many previous studies, their impact was mainly evaluated in scope of average and 85th percentile speed reduction. This paper presents and appraises the efficiency of calming measures of various types used in the city of Bialystok, Poland in terms of their influence zone. The assessment is based on speed profiles derived from individual test rides conducted with test vehicle equipped with GPS (global positioning system) data logger to obtain vehicle trajectory data. Speed measurements were conducted in vicinity of most commonly installed calming measures such as speed cameras, raised pedestrian crossing, raised intersection, speed bumps and speed cushion. The results reveal great differences within analysed devices and the usefulness of speed profiles in evaluation of their effectiveness. Speed bumps, most frequently used device in practice due to their low cost installation and speed reduction effectiveness, demonstrate lowest usefulness when influence zone is considered.展开更多
The development of GPS (global positioning system) receiver now can be integrated on a smartphone. GPS receiver on smartphones has been developed for location-based applications. Smartphones are very suitable to be ...The development of GPS (global positioning system) receiver now can be integrated on a smartphone. GPS receiver on smartphones has been developed for location-based applications. Smartphones are very suitable to be used as an experimental tool, because smartphones are usually equipped with various types of sensors. This paper proposes a model observation vehicle speed on a road section based on the GPS data on the smartphone. Observations made by calculating the speed of the speed of vehicles moving through the data transfer at the GPS location of the smartphone, the data are then sent periodically to the server and server processing and storage of vehicle speed data. After tested with test reliability indicators use RMSE, observations with model observations speed, speed based on GPS data on a smartphone are relevant when compared with the speed directly from the vehicle's speedometer with the difference between the value of the difference of speed that is 3.1785 km/h.展开更多
In this paper,we propose a novel vision navigation method based on three-dimensional(3D)reconstruction from real-time image sequences.It adapts 3D reconstruction and terrain matching to establish the correspondence be...In this paper,we propose a novel vision navigation method based on three-dimensional(3D)reconstruction from real-time image sequences.It adapts 3D reconstruction and terrain matching to establish the correspondence between image points and3D space points and the terrain reference(by using a digital elevation map(DEM)).An adaptive weighted orthogonal iterative pose estimation method is employed to calculate the position and attitude angle of the aircraft.Synthesized and real experiments show that the proposed method is capable of providing accurate navigation parameters for a long-endurance flight without using a global positioning system or an inertial navigation system(INS).Moreover,it can be combined with an INS to achieve an improved navigation result.展开更多
The global characteristics and trends of the tropopause physical parameters,height and temperature,obtained from the GPS/CHAMP radio occultation(RO) data in the period from Jul.2001 to Oct.2008,were modeled and analyz...The global characteristics and trends of the tropopause physical parameters,height and temperature,obtained from the GPS/CHAMP radio occultation(RO) data in the period from Jul.2001 to Oct.2008,were modeled and analyzed in this work.The global distribution and variation of these parameters with latitude were estimated and analyzed using the Empirical Orthogonal Function(EOF),which was introduced to reveal the possible relationship between the tropopause variations and global climate change.The tropopause height and temperature varied with latitude.The results obtained by using the Empirical Orthogonal Function analysis suggested a recent rise in tropopause height and decrease in tropopause temperature;and also partly supported the argument that the global rise in the tropopause is consistent with global climate change.These results also revealed that the tropopause height increased mainly in the Polar regions,particularly in the South Polar region,as well as the regions where human activity is relatively significant,and decreased in the areas that are sparsely populated or have less human activity,such as the tropic region and south hemisphere.This paper also confirms that the GPS/LEO RO data are more reliable and can be effectively used to analyze the tropopause physical parameters.展开更多
The importance of water vapor in research of global climate change and weather forecast cannot be over emphasized; therefore substantial efforts have been made in exploring the optimal methods to measure water vapor. ...The importance of water vapor in research of global climate change and weather forecast cannot be over emphasized; therefore substantial efforts have been made in exploring the optimal methods to measure water vapor. It is well-established that with a conversion factor, zenith wet delays can be mapped onto precipitable water vapor (PWV). However, the determination of the exact conversion factor depends heavily on the accurate calculation of a key variable, weighted mean temperature of the trop- osphere (Tin). AS a critical parameter in Global Positioning System (GPS) meteorology, Tm has recently been modeled into a global grid known as GWMT. The GWMT model only requires the location and the day of year to calculate Tm. Despite the advantages that the GWMT model offers, anomalies still exist in oceanic areas due to low sampling resolution. In this study, we refine the GWMT model by incorporating the global Tm grid from Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) and obtain an improved model, GWMT-G. The results indicate that the GWMT-G model successfully addresses the anomaly in oceanic areas in the GWMT model and significantly improves the accuracy of Tm in other regions.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National 973 Program(No.2006CB701301) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40574005) .
文摘The methods of Earth rotation parameter (ERP) estimation based on IGS SINEX file of GPS solution are discussed in detail. There are two different ways to estimate ERP: one is the parameter transformation method, and the other is direct adjustment method with restrictive conditions. By comparing the estimated results with independent copyright program to IERS results, the residual systemic error can be found in estimated ERP with GPS observations.
文摘This paper focuses on the integration and data transformation between GPS and totalstation.It emphasizes on the way to transfer the WGS84 Cartesian coordinates to the local two_dimensional plane coordinates and the orthometric height GPS receiver,totalstation,radio,notebook computer and the corresponding software work together to form a new surveying system,the super_totalstation positioning system(SPS) and a new surveying model for terrestrial surveying.With the help of this system,the positions of detail points can be measured.
基金supported by the"National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41471232)""the Fundamental Research Funds of China West Normal University"(Grant No.16A001)"Ecological Security Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province"(Grant No.ESP201301)
文摘The morphology of the gully longitudinal profile (GLP) is an important topographic index of the gully bottom associated with the evolution of the gullies. This index can be used to predict the development trend and evaluate the eroded volumes and soil losses by gullying. To depict the morphology of GLP and understand its controlling factors, the Global Positioning System Real-time Kinematic (GPS RTK) and the total station were used to measure the detail points along the gully bottom of 122 gullies at six sites of the Yuanmou dry-hot Valley. Then, nine parameters including length (Lt), horizontal distance (Dh), height (H), vertical erosional area (A), vertical curvature (Co), concavity (Ca), average gradient (Ga), gully length-gradient index (GL), normalized gully length-gradient index (Ngl), were calculated and mapped using CASS, Excel and SPSS. The results showed that this study area is dominated by slightly concave and medium gradient GLPs, and the lithology of most gullies is sandstone and siltstone. Although different types of GLPs appear at different sites, all parameters present a positively skewed distribution. There are relatively strong correlations between several parameters: namely Lt and H, Dh and H, Lt and A, Dh and A, H and GL. Most GLPs, except three, have a best fit of exponential functions with quasi- straight shapes. Soil properties, vegetation coverage, piping erosion and topography are important factors to affect the GLP morphology. This study provides useful insight into the knowledge of GLP morphology and its influential factors that are of critical importance to prevent and control gully erosion.
文摘To obtain the GLONASS satellite position at an epoch other than reference time,the satellite’s equation of motion has to be integrated with broadcasting ephemerides.The iterative detecting and repairing method of cycle slips based on triple difference residuals for combined GPS/GLONASS positioning and the iterative ambiguity resolution approach suitable for combined post processing positioning are discussed systematically.Experiments show that millimeter accuracy can be achieved in short baselines with a few hours’ dual frequency or even single frequency GPS/GLONASS carrier phase observations,and the precision of dual frequency observations is distinctly higher than that of single frequency observations.
基金Supported by the Scientific Research Foundation for ROCS,SEMJiangxi Education Bureau Project(No.200525) .
文摘The method of integrated data processing for GPS and INS(inertial navigation system) field test over the Rocky Mountains using the adaptive Kalman filtering technique is presented. On the basis of the known GPS outputs and the offset of GPS and INS, state equations and observations are designed to perform the calculation and improve the navigation accuracy. An example shows that with the method the reliable navigation parameters have been obtained.
文摘The technique of precise point positioning (PPP) is gradually becoming a popular method in GPS data-processing. In GPS observation equation, the unknown parameters can be separated into two parts: global parameters and local parameters. The global parameters include orbit, satellite clock and geodynamic parameters. The local parameters are site-occupation-specific, such as position, tropospheric delay, etc. The formulas of local parameters are firstly derived under the network-solution and the PPP-solution conditions respectively. If the weight matrix of global parameters in PPP-solution is small enough, the cofactor matrices of local parameters are the same as that in network-solution. Then, 16 daily solutions are obtained in both PPP mode and network mode. Three sites are selected to compare the solutions. The experimental results demonstrated that the difference between two solutions in coordinates and tropospheric delays are only few millimeters. This level of difference can be neglected so that the solutions from both PPP mode and network mode can be taken as the same in the actual application.
文摘This paper presents a data fusion method in distributed multi-sensor system including GPS and INS sensors’ data processing. First, a residual χ 2 \|test strategy with the corresponding algorithm is designed. Then a coefficient matrices calculation method of the information sharing principle is derived. Finally, the federated Kalman filter is used to combine these independent, parallel, real\|time data. A pseudolite (PL) simulation example is given.
文摘Focusing on carrying out GPS occultation observat io ns with a receiver set on LEO satellite, this paper develops the LEO orbit simul ation system based on which the occultation events can be simulated taking into account the geometric relationship of the satellites and the field of view of th e receiver antenna. In this paper, the impacts of 4 types of LEO orbit parameter s including argument of latitude (AOL), right ascension of ascending node (RAAN) , orbit height and orbit inclination on the distribution and number of occultati on events observed with a single LEO satellite are discussed through simulat ion and some conclusions are drawn.
基金Funded by the Opening Foundation of the Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy of the Ministry of Education(03-04-09).
文摘By using observed CHAMP orbit ephemeredes and MSISE90 dry air model and regarding the earth as a sphere and an ellipsoid respectively, phase delays are simulated and the simulated data are retrieved under different schemes. The comparison between the inverted temperature profiles and the model temperature profiles shows that by inverting observed data, we will get temperature results with large errors if the effect of Earth’s oblateness is omitted. The correction method is proved to be effective because the temperature errors decreased obviously with this method.
基金Projects(40974006,40774003) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(NCET-08-0570) supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in Chinese Universities+2 种基金Projects(2011JQ001,2009QZZD004) supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in ChinaProjects(09K005,09K006) supported by the Key Laboratory for Precise Engineering Surveying & Hazard Monitoring of Hunan Province,ChinaProject(1343-74334000023) supported by the Graduate DegreeThesis Innovation Foundation of Central South University,China
文摘To better understand the mechanism of the Mw6.3 L'Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake occurred in 2009, global positioning system (GPS) and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data were used to derive the coseismic slip distribution of the earthquake fault. Firstly, based on the homogeneous elastic half-space model, the fault geometric parameters were solved by the genetic algorithm. The best fitting model shows that the fault is a 13.7 km×14.1 km rectangular fault, in 139.3° strike direction and 50.2° southwest-dipping. Secondly, fixing the optimal fault geometric parameters, the fault plane was extended and discretized into 16× 16 patches, each with a size of 1 kmx 1 krn, and the non-uniform slip distribution of the fault was inverted by the steepest descent method with an appropriate smoothing ratio based on the layered crustal structure model. The preferred solution shows that the fault is mainly a normal fault with slight right-lateral strike slip, the maximum slip of 1.01 m is located in the depth of 8.28 km, the average rake is -100.9°, and the total geodetic moment is about 3.34× 1018 N.m (Mw 6.28). The results are much closer than previous studies in comparison with the seismological estimation. These demonstrate that the coseismic fault slip distribution of the L'Aauila earthauake inverted by the crustal model considering layered characters is reliable.
基金the National Natural Foundation of China (No.40574002)the Natural Foundation of Guang Xi Zhuang Autonomous Re-gion (No. 0728097)
文摘The characteristics of three GPS kinematic data processing models, Least Squares (LS), Kalman filtering and filtering are discussed and their advantages and disadvantages are compared. With observational data and pertinent data processing software, the applicable condition, context and effect of the three models are experimented. Results show that when the mobile platform is in uniform motion, the accuracy of the three models are almost equal; when the mobile platform is in stochastic acceleration, the accuracy of H∞ filtering model is superior to that of LS, while that of Kalman filtering is the worst.
文摘With the development of GPS carrier wave phase technology, it becomes possible that the height accuracy of centimeter level is got by GPS RTK technology. Vessel attitudes are very important parameters in marine survey. In this paper, they were determined by 4 GPS receivers. At the same time, the arithmetic and procedure of vessel attitude determining were given. Based on an experiment, some useful conclusions were obtained and the corresponding methods were put forward to improve the accuracy.
基金Supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(No.2010CB951503,2013BAC03B00)
文摘Soil moisture is a key parameter in agricultural irrigation. The L band(1.58GHz) on board global position system (GPS) satellite is well suited for monitoring the change of soil moisture. In order to investigate the potential of retrieving soil moisture using the L-band GPS bistatic radar, this paper analyzed a retrieval method by using field experiment data. In order to investigate the relation- ship between the soil moisture ( corresponding roughly to the 0 - 5cm top soil layer) and the signal- to-noise ratio (PT-S-R) to the direct GPS signal-to-noise ratio (Pd_sNR), an experiment was conducted in Hulunber grassland of China in 2009 and 2011. Six field sites in the soil moisture experiment were utilized to analyze the relationship between soil moisture and the ratio of Pr-SNR to Pd-SN~ and the square of correlation coefficient was about 0.9 when the surface type was known and the elevation angle of the satellite ranged from 65 to 85 degrees approximately. The analysis shows that ratio of Pr-SNR to Pd-SNR can be used to monitor the soil moisture, because the ratio of Pr-SVR to Pd-SNR maxi- mized the elimination of the influence of different signals from different GPS satellites. The estimation accuracy could be improved if we make full use of the empirical knowledge on elevation angles of GPS satellites and ground roughness of different surface types.
文摘TCMs (traffic calming measures) are commonly installed in order to reduce speeds and volumes of traffic to acceptable levels and, thus, improve traffic safety as well as environmental impact when designed appropriately as a corridor or aerial implementation with proper spacing. Hence in many previous studies, their impact was mainly evaluated in scope of average and 85th percentile speed reduction. This paper presents and appraises the efficiency of calming measures of various types used in the city of Bialystok, Poland in terms of their influence zone. The assessment is based on speed profiles derived from individual test rides conducted with test vehicle equipped with GPS (global positioning system) data logger to obtain vehicle trajectory data. Speed measurements were conducted in vicinity of most commonly installed calming measures such as speed cameras, raised pedestrian crossing, raised intersection, speed bumps and speed cushion. The results reveal great differences within analysed devices and the usefulness of speed profiles in evaluation of their effectiveness. Speed bumps, most frequently used device in practice due to their low cost installation and speed reduction effectiveness, demonstrate lowest usefulness when influence zone is considered.
文摘The development of GPS (global positioning system) receiver now can be integrated on a smartphone. GPS receiver on smartphones has been developed for location-based applications. Smartphones are very suitable to be used as an experimental tool, because smartphones are usually equipped with various types of sensors. This paper proposes a model observation vehicle speed on a road section based on the GPS data on the smartphone. Observations made by calculating the speed of the speed of vehicles moving through the data transfer at the GPS location of the smartphone, the data are then sent periodically to the server and server processing and storage of vehicle speed data. After tested with test reliability indicators use RMSE, observations with model observations speed, speed based on GPS data on a smartphone are relevant when compared with the speed directly from the vehicle's speedometer with the difference between the value of the difference of speed that is 3.1785 km/h.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Project)(Grant No.2013CB733100)
文摘In this paper,we propose a novel vision navigation method based on three-dimensional(3D)reconstruction from real-time image sequences.It adapts 3D reconstruction and terrain matching to establish the correspondence between image points and3D space points and the terrain reference(by using a digital elevation map(DEM)).An adaptive weighted orthogonal iterative pose estimation method is employed to calculate the position and attitude angle of the aircraft.Synthesized and real experiments show that the proposed method is capable of providing accurate navigation parameters for a long-endurance flight without using a global positioning system or an inertial navigation system(INS).Moreover,it can be combined with an INS to achieve an improved navigation result.
基金supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program (Grant Nos 2008AA12A210, 2009AA122206 and 2009AA12Z319)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No10973031)the Key Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No KJCX2-YZ-T13-2)
文摘The global characteristics and trends of the tropopause physical parameters,height and temperature,obtained from the GPS/CHAMP radio occultation(RO) data in the period from Jul.2001 to Oct.2008,were modeled and analyzed in this work.The global distribution and variation of these parameters with latitude were estimated and analyzed using the Empirical Orthogonal Function(EOF),which was introduced to reveal the possible relationship between the tropopause variations and global climate change.The tropopause height and temperature varied with latitude.The results obtained by using the Empirical Orthogonal Function analysis suggested a recent rise in tropopause height and decrease in tropopause temperature;and also partly supported the argument that the global rise in the tropopause is consistent with global climate change.These results also revealed that the tropopause height increased mainly in the Polar regions,particularly in the South Polar region,as well as the regions where human activity is relatively significant,and decreased in the areas that are sparsely populated or have less human activity,such as the tropic region and south hemisphere.This paper also confirms that the GPS/LEO RO data are more reliable and can be effectively used to analyze the tropopause physical parameters.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41174012, 41274022)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2013AA122502)the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Precise Engineering and Industry Surveying of National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation (Grant Nos. PF2012-14, PF2013-12)
文摘The importance of water vapor in research of global climate change and weather forecast cannot be over emphasized; therefore substantial efforts have been made in exploring the optimal methods to measure water vapor. It is well-established that with a conversion factor, zenith wet delays can be mapped onto precipitable water vapor (PWV). However, the determination of the exact conversion factor depends heavily on the accurate calculation of a key variable, weighted mean temperature of the trop- osphere (Tin). AS a critical parameter in Global Positioning System (GPS) meteorology, Tm has recently been modeled into a global grid known as GWMT. The GWMT model only requires the location and the day of year to calculate Tm. Despite the advantages that the GWMT model offers, anomalies still exist in oceanic areas due to low sampling resolution. In this study, we refine the GWMT model by incorporating the global Tm grid from Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) and obtain an improved model, GWMT-G. The results indicate that the GWMT-G model successfully addresses the anomaly in oceanic areas in the GWMT model and significantly improves the accuracy of Tm in other regions.