The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is becoming important for monitoring the variations in the earth's ionosphere based on the total electron content (TEC) and iono- spheric electron density (IED). Th...The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is becoming important for monitoring the variations in the earth's ionosphere based on the total electron content (TEC) and iono- spheric electron density (IED). The Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC), which includes GNSS stations across China's Mainland, enables the continuous monitoring of the ionosphere over China as accurately as possible. A series of approaches for GNSS-based ionospheric remote sensing and software has been proposed and devel- oped by the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics (IGG) in Wuhan. Related achievements include the retrieval of ionospheric observables from raw GNSS data, differential code biases estimations in satellites and receivers, models of local and regional ionospheric TEC, and algorithms of ionospheric tomography. Based on these achievements, a software for processing GNSS data to determine the variations in ionospheric TEC and IED over China has been designed and developed by IGG. This software has also been installed at the CMONOC data centers belonging to the China Earthquake Administration and China Meteorological Administration. This paper briefly introduces the related research achievements and indicates potential directions of future work.展开更多
基金partially funded by the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China(CMONOC)iGMAS,the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB825604)+4 种基金China Natural Science Funds(41304034,41231064,41204031)China Scholarship Council,and CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams(KZZD-EW-TZ-05)Beijing Natural Science Funds(4144094)863programs(2012AA121803)the State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics(SKLGED2014-3-1-E,SKLGED2014-3-7-E)
文摘The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is becoming important for monitoring the variations in the earth's ionosphere based on the total electron content (TEC) and iono- spheric electron density (IED). The Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC), which includes GNSS stations across China's Mainland, enables the continuous monitoring of the ionosphere over China as accurately as possible. A series of approaches for GNSS-based ionospheric remote sensing and software has been proposed and devel- oped by the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics (IGG) in Wuhan. Related achievements include the retrieval of ionospheric observables from raw GNSS data, differential code biases estimations in satellites and receivers, models of local and regional ionospheric TEC, and algorithms of ionospheric tomography. Based on these achievements, a software for processing GNSS data to determine the variations in ionospheric TEC and IED over China has been designed and developed by IGG. This software has also been installed at the CMONOC data centers belonging to the China Earthquake Administration and China Meteorological Administration. This paper briefly introduces the related research achievements and indicates potential directions of future work.