Initial analysis for characterizing and mitigating the pseudorange biases of BeiDou navigation satellite system

Pseudorange bias has become a practical obstacle in the field of high-precision global navigation satellite system(GNSS)applications,which greatly restricts the further development of high-precision applications.Unfortunately,no studies have been conducted on the pseudorange biases of the BeiDou navigation satellite system(BDS).To mitigate the effects of pseudorange biases on the BDS performance to the greatest extent possible,the origin of such BDS pseudorange biases are first thoroughly illustrated,based upon which the dependency of the biases on the receiver configurations are studied in detail.Owing to the limitations regarding the parameter re-settings for hardware receivers,software receiver technology was used to achieve the ergodicity of the receiver parameters,such as the correlator spacing and front-end bandwidth,using high-fidelity signal observations collected by a 40-m-high gain dish antenna at Haoping Observatory.Based on this,the pseudorange biases of the BDS B1I and B3I signals and their dependency on different correlator spacings and front-end bandwidths were adequately provided.Finally,herein,the suggested settings of the correlator spacing and front-end bandwidth for BDS receivers are in detail proposed for the first time.As a result,the pseudorange biases of the BDS signals will be less than 20 cm,reaching even under 10 cm,under this condition.This study will provide special attention to GNSS pseudorange biases,and will significantly promote a clear definition of the appropriate receiver parameter settings in the interface control documents of BDS and other individual satellite systems.

Estimation of BDS pseudorange biases with high temporal resolution:feasibility,affecting factors,and necessity

A common practice adopted for the pseudorange bias estimation and calibration assumes that Global Navigation Satellite System satellite-dependent pseudorange biases vary gently over time.Whereupon satellite pseudorange biases are routinely estimated and provided as the products with low temporal resolution,e.g.,hourly or daily,by the agencies.The story sounds unquestionably perfect under the acquainted assumption.To validate the inadequacy of the above hypothesis we herein present an approach to the estimate the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System(BDS)pseudorange biases with high temporal resolution.Its feasibility,affecting factors,and necessity are discussed.Concretely,the Geometry-Free function models are first constructed to retrieve the linear combination of the pseudorange biases;then the pseudorange Observable-specific Signal Bias(OSB)values with respect to baseline frequencies(e.g.,BDS C2I/C6I)are estimated along with the ionosphere modeling;subsequently,all multi-frequency pseudorange OSBs are determined by using the ionospheric information with constraint conditions;finally,the possible Differential Code Bias sets are attainable with the estimated pseudorange OSBs.Using the observation data of four months when the estimated BDS pseudorange biases are stable,their reliability is demonstrated with the stability at the level of sub-nanosecond and the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System(BDS-3)values more stable than that of BeiDou-2 Navigation Satellite System(BDS-2).The comparison between the estimated pseudorange biases and the Chinese Academy of Sciences products reveals that the accuracy of the estimated pseudorange biases is 0.2–0.4 ns.Moreover,the large magnitude of the short-term pseudorange bias variation in the tens of nanoseconds for the BDS-2 and BDS-3 are found in years 2021 and 2022,which are affected by two types of the satellite flex power for the BDS-2 and BDS-3,respectively.We stress that it’s necessary to estimate the BDS pseudorange biases with high temporal resolution in the case of the satellite flex power and the products currently provided by the agencies cannot reflect the true quantity under the circumstance.