Research on Error Analysis and Correction Technique of Atmospheric Refraction for InSAR Measurement with Distributed Satellites

SAR interferometry with distributed satellites is a technique based on the exploitation of the interference pattern of two SAR images acquired synchronously. The interferogram contains geometric, atmospheric, topographic and land defomation. This paper focuses on atmospheric effects on SAR interferometry, which shows theoretically that the relationship among ionosphere TEC and troposphere parameters such as temperature, relative humitdity and pressure with respect to slant rang changes. An atmospheric correction method is given in the end.

Correg-Yolov3:a Method for Dense Buildings Detection in High-resolution Remote Sensing Images

The exploration of building detection plays an important role in urban planning,smart city and military.Aiming at the problem of high overlapping ratio of detection frames for dense building detection in high resolution remote sensing images,we present an effective YOLOv3 framework,corner regression-based YOLOv3(Correg-YOLOv3),to localize dense building accurately.This improved YOLOv3 algorithm establishes a vertex regression mechanism and an additional loss item about building vertex offsets relative to the center point of bounding box.By extending output dimensions,the trained model is able to output the rectangular bounding boxes and the building vertices meanwhile.Finally,we evaluate the performance of the Correg-YOLOv3 on our self-produced data set and provide a comparative analysis qualitatively and quantitatively.The experimental results achieve high performance in precision(96.45%),recall rate(95.75%),F1 score(96.10%)and average precision(98.05%),which were 2.73%,5.4%,4.1%and 4.73%higher than that of YOLOv3.Therefore,our proposed algorithm effectively tackles the problem of dense building detection in high resolution images.

Development of Integrated and Intelligent Geodetic and Photogrammetry Satellites with Corresponding Key Technologies

Aerospace surveying and mapping has become the main method of global earth observation.It can be divided into the geodetic observation satellites and the topographic surveying satellites according to the disciplines.In this paper,the geodetic satellites and photographic satellites are introduced respectively.Then,the existing problems in Chinese earth observation satellites are analyzed,and the comprehensive satellite with integrated payloads,the intensive microsatellite constellation and the intelligent observation satellite are proposed as three different development ideas for the future earth observation satellites.The possibility of the three ideas is discussed in detail,as well as the related key technologies.

Chinese Gravimetry Augment and Mass Change Exploring Mission Status and Future

The satellite gravimetry technology effectively recovers the global Earth’s gravity field.Since 2000s,HL-SST satellite CHAMP,LL-SST satellite GRACE,Gravity Gradient Measurement(GGM)satellite GOCE have been launched successfully,producing some Earth’s gravity models solely from satellites data.However,the space and time resolution of the Earth’s gravity fields do not adequately satisfy scientific objectives.The main reason is that the gravimetry satellites are not enough and observation data insufficient.The paper outlines the current and future status of Chinese gravity satellite missions.The Chinese gravimetry satellite system,named Chinese Gravimetry augment and Mass change exploring mission(ChiGaM),successfully launched in Dec.2021 after four years of production and over a year of calibration and valiation.The accelerometer,K-band ranging system and the three stellar sensors,among others,were precisely calibrated and trimmed.The satellite mass center was determined and coordinated with the proof center of accelerometer with an accuracy 100μm.The inter-satellite ranging system and BDS/GPS receiver operate together seamlessly.The range and range rate noise is less than 3μm/Hz^(1/2) and 1μm/s/Hz^(1/2),respectively,in band of 0.025~0.1 Hz.The electrostatic suspension accelerometer is working well.Its high-sensitive axis noise level is 3×10^(-10) m/s^(2)/Hz^(1/2)near the frequency 0.1 Hz,and 1×10^(-9) m/s^(2)/Hz^(1/2) for the less-sensitive axis.Meanwhile the BDS/GPS receiver is used to achieve data for precise orbit determination,yielding an orbit result with accuracy better than 2 cm.When compared with KBR observations,the RMS of the bias is less than 1 mm.Besides above mission,next gravimetric satellite is being developed now.TQ-2 mission is designed as a totally experimental satellite for gravitational wave detection at low Earth orbit,which can detect the Earth’s gravity field simultaneously.The Bender-type mission is considered the most promising configuration for TQ-2 and consists of two polar satellites and two inclined satellites.Due to the extra observations at the east-west direction derived from the inclined satellite pair,significant improvements has been made in detecting temporal signals with higher accuracy and spatial-temporal resolution.To achieve the scientific goal,the ACC MBW can shift from 0.001~0.1 Hz to 0.004~0.1 Hz for ACC,and the LRI MBW can shift from 0.01~1 Hz to 0.1~1 Hz.For future research,a gravimetric potential survey using cold-atomic-clock based on the general relativity theory,cold atom gradiometer should be pursued.Gravimetric technologies should be mined and researched,and the gravimetry satellite constellation should be developed,so as to improve the time resolution and space resolution for meeting the requirements of geophysics,geodesy,earthquake,water resources environment,oceanography,etc.

Development of Comprehensive PNT and Resilient PNT

Any single Positioning,Navigation and Timing(PNT)technology has its vulnerability and limits,even the powerful Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)is no exception.To provide continuous and reliable PNT information to users,the theory and technique of comprehensive PNT information system and resilient PNT application system have attracted great attention from Chinese scholars.We try to summarize the progress and development of the synthetic PNT system,including the proposal,the modification and the improvement of the comprehensive PNT,as well as the follow-up resilient PNT.The frame of China’s comprehensive PNT system consisted of comprehensive PNT infrastructure and comprehensive PNT application system is initially described;the achievements on some main PNT technologies are introduced;the conceptual models of resilient PNT are given;besides,existing researches on resilient function models and stochastic models are summarized according to different user scenarios.

Resilient PNT Concept Frame

The concept of resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) is described. The definition of resilient PNT is given, the relationship between integrated (or comprehensive) PNT and resilient PNT is analyzed, and it is pointed out that the integrated PNT is the foundation of resilient PNT. Resilient PNT should be divided into resilient sensor integration, resilient functional model and resilient stochastic model. The strategy and principles of resilient integration of sensors are discussed. The resilient integration of sensors should be designed following the optimal, available, compatible and interoperable principles. The concepts of resilient functional model and possible modification strategies of the different functional models are also described. Several possible optimal routes for resilient stochastic model improvements are also set forth. It is pointed out that the optimal improvements of stochastic models for multi PNT sources should follow the same variance scale. At last, the resilient PNT data fusion for state parameters are given based on the resilient functional and stochastic models.

Progresses and Prospects of Marine Geodetic Datum and Marine Navigation in China

Territorial water is a significant part of national sovereignty of China,thus the infrastructures of national space datum and location services should cover the sea areas except for the land areas.China has established relatively complete geodetic coordinate frame in land areas over the past decades,including the lastest developed China Geodetic Coordinate System 2000(CGCS 2000)with its reference frame and the national gravity datum 2000.However,the currently used geodetic infrastructures have not well covered the sea areas of China.The marine geodetic datum and marine navigation technologies need to be further developed and extended to satisfy the national demands of marine environment and resources detection,scientific investigation as well as marine economy development in new era of China.This paper mainly reviews the development and the progress of Chinese marine geodetic datum and marine navigation,analyses related key technologies in establishing our national marine geodetic datum.Some current trends and future directions for independently developing our national marine geodetic datum and marine navigation technologies are discussed.

Results and Analyses of BDS Precise Orbit Determination with the Enhancement of Fengyun-3C

Global navigation satellite system occultation sounder (GNOS) Fengyun-3C was launched successfully on September 23, 2013, which carried GPS/BDS receiver for the first time. This provides the convenience to study the enhancement results of low earth orbiter satellite (LEO) to BDS precise orbit determination (POD). First the data characteristic and code observation noise of GNOS are analyzed. Then the enhancement experiments in the case of global and regional ground observation stations layout are processed with four POD schemes: BDS single system, GPS/BDS double system, BDS single system with GNOS observations, GPS/BDS double system with GNOS observations. The precision of BDS orbits and clocks are compared via overlapping arcs. Results show that in the case of global station layout the along directional precision of GEO satellite has the biggest improvement, with the improvement percentage 60%. Then the precision of cross direction and the along direction of remaining satellites shows the second biggest improvement. The orbit precision of BDS-only POD in part of observation arcs some satellite even suffers a slight decline. The root mean square (RMS) of overlapping clock difference of visible arcs in GPS/BDS POD experiments improves by 0.1 ns level. As to the experiments of regional station layout with 7 ground stations, the orbit and clock overlapping precision and orbit predicting precision are analyzed. Results show that the predicting precision of BDS GEO satellites in the along direction improves by 85%. The remaining also has a substantial improvement, with the average percentage 21.7%. RMS of overlapping clock difference of visible arcs improves by 0.5 ns level.

Satellite Positioning and Orbit Determination System(SPODS):Introduction and Evaluation

The Satellite Positioning and Orbit Determination System(SPODS)is a software package for GNSS positioning/orbit determination,developed by the Xi’an Research Institute of Surveying and Mapping.So far it has been able to analyse GPS data and has the capability of high precision GPS positioning and orbit determination.The underlying theory and the performance evaluation are briefly addressed in this paper.The experiments are carried out with GPS data collected from about 127 IGS stations during 4~10 January 2009.The results show that the RMS 1D difference is 1.1 cm between SPODS orbits and final IGS combined orbits,and that the repeatability of daily solutions of station coordinates is 1.5 mm for horizontal components,and 4.5 mm for vertical component,and that the consistency of ERP solutions with IGS final products is 0.025 mas,0.093 mas and 0.013 ms/d respectively for pole coordinates and LOD.

Feasibility Analysis of Performance Validation for Satellite Altimeters Using Tide Gauge and Deep-ocean Bottom Pressure Recorder

Independent of traditional approach of satellite altimeter calibration, the feasibility of altimeter validation using tide gauge located on solitary island at open sea (TGSI) and deep-ocean bottom pressure recorder (DBPR) separately is initially studied. Bias of Jason-3 sea surface height (SSH) and relative SSH bias (Δbias) between Jason-2 and Jason-3 is calculated using the data of tide gauge on Harvest oil platform, tide gauge No. 1890000 and DBPR No. 21419. The standard deviations of calculated SSH bias sequence are 3.98 cm, 2.87 cm and 8.61 cm respectively, and Δbias (Jason-3—Jason-2) is -3.62± 2.17 cm , -2.58±1.97 cm and -2.60±1.30 cm respectively. Comparing to the results reported by international calibration sites, the results show that Jason-3 SSH is 3.0 cm lower than that of Jason-2, the selected DBPR is appropriate to the calculation of relative SSH bias between Jason-2 and Jason-3, but it is not suitable for calibration or validation of single satellite, TGSI is appropriate to both.

Adjustment Model and Colored Noise Compensation of Continuous Observation System

The affection caused by the colored noises should be taken into account to the adjustment model.As useful signals,these colored noises should be accurately identified and extracted by Fourier analysis.A continuous adjustment model is introduced with respect to the colored noises,and then it can be generalized from the finite space to the infinite space so called as Hilbert space.This extension is to provide a new technique to perform the continuous observational system design,Fourier analysis as well as the parameter estimation.It shows that the Gramer’s determinant provides maximization criteria in the system optimization design as well as a rule in diagnosing the adjustment model.Related with the definition of the integral,the least squares solution of the continuous adjustment model becomes the limit of the traditional least squares solution in finite space.Moreover,the influence caused by the colored noises is systematic,but it can be eliminated or compensated by optimally designing the observational system.

The Spectral Analysis and Application of Low-degree Modified Spheroidal Hotine Kernel

The traditional spheroidal kernel results in the spectrum leakage,and the utilization rate of the removed degrees of the measured data is low.Hence,a kind of spheroidal kernel whose high-and low-degrees are both modified is introduced in this research,which is exampled by the Hotine kernel.In addition,the low-degree modified spheroidal kernel is proposed.Either cosine or linear modification factors can be utilized.The modified kernel functions can effectively control the spectrum leakage compared with the traditional spheroidal kernel.Furthermore,the modified kernel augments the contribution rate of the measured data to height anomaly in the modified frequency domain.The experimental results show that the accuracy of the quasi-geoid by the cosine or linear low-degree modified kernel is higher than that by the traditional spheroidal kernel.And the accuracy equals the accuracy of the quasi-geoid using the spheroidal kernel with high-and low-degrees modified approximately when the low-degree modification bandwidths of these two kinds of kernels are the same.Since the computational efficiency of the low-degree modified kernel is much higher,the low-degree modified kernel behaves better in constructing the(quasi-)geoid based on Stokes-Helmert or Hotine-Helmert boundary-value theory.

Calculation and Spectra Analysis of Horizontal Acceleration Correction(HACC)for Airborne Gravimetry

On the basis of a sinusoidal model of the disturbed horizontal acceleration,the spectrum characteristics of misaligned angle and horizontal acceleration correction are analyzed.In an airborne gravimetry test,the misaligned angle of platform and horizontal acceleration correction are calculated.They are 5′and 3 mGal,respectively,when the flight is stable.

The Satellite’s On-Orbit Attitude System Error Compensation Technique Based on Stereo Models

According to the problem that the low measurement accuracy of TH-1 satellite star sensor, the low frequency and “slow drift” error which cannot be ignored in the attitude determination system, resulting in obvious random error in the horizontal position and elevation direction, and the change of the error with time and latitude, cannot be calibrated by the ground field of the real problem. In this paper, a low frequency detection model is established by using the principle of relative orientation, and the low frequency error is obtained by parallax elimination. Finally, the satellite attitude is compensated and the more accurate exterior orientation elements are obtained, thus improving the positioning accuracy and stability. The experimental results show that: the proposed methods are feasible, and by using the model to dynamically calibrate the exterior orientation angle elements on orbit, the plane and elevation errors of the ground points can be basically eliminated. The global uncontrollable positioning accuracy and stability of the photogrammetry satellite are improved.

Near-zone Direct and Indirect Topographic Effects Based on the Rectangular Prism and Surface Element

Helmert’s second method of condensation is an effective method for terrain reduction in the geoid and quasi-geoid determinations. Condensing the masses outside the geoid to a surface layer on the geoid produces several forms of topographic effects: direct effect on gravity, secondary indirect effect on gravity and indirect effects on the (quasi-) geoid, respectively. To strike a balance between computation accuracy and numerical efficiency, the global integration region of topographic effects is usually divided into near zone and far zone. We focus on the computation of near-zone topographic effects, which are functions of actual topographic masses and condensed masses. Since there have already been mature formulas for gravitational attraction and potential of actual topographic masses using rectangular prism model, we put forward surface element model for condensed masses. Afterwards, the formulas for near-zone direct and indirect effects are obtained easily by combining the rectangular prism model and surface element model. To overcome the planar approximation errors involved with the new formulas for near-zone topographic effects, the Earth’s curvature can be taken into account. It is recommended to apply the formulas based on the rectangular prism and surface element considering the Earth’s curvature to calculate near-zone topographic effects for high-accuracy demand to determine geoid and quasi-geoid.

Demand and key technology for a LEO constellation as augmentation of satellite navigation systems

A Low Earth Orbit(LEO)constellation augmenting satellite navigation is important in the future development of Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS).GNSS augmented by LEO constellations can improve not only the accuracy of Positioning,Navigation,and Timing(PNT),but also the consistency and reliability of secure PNT system.This paper mainly analyzes the diverse demands of different PNT users for LEO augmented GNSS,including the precision demand in real-time,the availability demand in special areas,the navigation signal enhancement demand in complex electromagnetic environments,and the integrity demand with high security.Correspondingly,the possible contributions of LEO constellations to PNT performance are analyzed from multiple aspects.A particular attention is paid to the special PNT user requirements that cannot be fulfilled with existing GNSS,such as the PNT service demand in the polar regions and the onboard GNSS orbit determination demand of some LEO satellites.The key technologies to be considered in the constellation design,function realization,and payload development of the LEO-augmented navigation system are summarized.

Development trends of the national secure PNT system based on BDS

Satellite navigation systems are vulnerable.To guarantee the positioning,navigation and timing(PNT)safety of core infrastructure,it is necessary to establish a secure PNT system with hybrid physical principles.In this paper,the augmentations of the BeiDou satellite system(BDS)itself are analysed,namely augmentations through the BDS inter-satellite link,BDS geostationary orbit(GEO)and inclined geostationary orbit(IGSO)satellites,and BDS PNT services supported by low earth orbit(LEO)satellites.Then,taking BDS as the core component,the comprehensive PNT infrastructure seamlessly covering deep space and deep ocean is described,consisting of the deep space PNT constellation,the sea-floor PNT sonar beacon network,and the ground-based low frequency and very low frequency(VLF)long wave radio stations.Moreover,the key technologies of resilient PNT application matching comprehensive PNT and various autonomous perception PNT information are discussed,such as resilient PNT sensor integration,the resilient PNT functional model and the resilient stochastic model.As a future development direction,the key factors of intelligent PNT services are analysed,including the intelligent perception of PNT application scenes,the intelligent optimization of PNT functional and stochastic models and the intelligent fusion of multisource PNT information.

Resilient timekeeping algorithm with multi‑observation fusion Kalman filter

The timescales incorporated into the Primary Frequency Standard(PFS)exhibit excellent stability and accuracy.However,during the dead time of PFS,the reliability of the timescale can be compromised.To address this issue,a resilient timekeeping algorithm with a Multi-observation Fusion Kalman Filter(MFKF)is proposed.This algorithm fuses the frequency measurements from hydrogen masers with various reference frequency standards,including PFS and commercial cesium beam atomic clocks.The simulation results show that the time deviation and instability of the timescale generated by MFKF are improved compared to those with Kalman filtering.The experimental results demonstrate that even within 70 days of PFS dead time the resilient timescale generated by MFKF can operate reliably.Furthermore,it is theoretically proven that MFKF produces a smaller post-covariance than that with singleobservation Kalman filtering.

Featured services and performance of BDS-3

BeiDou Global Navigation Satellite System(BDS-3)not only performs the normal positioning,navigation and timing(PNT)functions,but also provides featured services,which are divided into geostationary orbit(GEO)and medium earth orbit(MEO)satellite-based featured services in this paper.The former refers to regional services consisting of the regional short message communication service(RSMCS),the radio determination satellite service(RDSS),the BDS satellite-based augmented service(BDSBAS)and the satellite-based precise point positioning service via B2b signal(B2b-PPP).The latter refers to global services consisting of the global short message communication service(GSMCS)and the MEO satellite-based search and rescue(MEOSAR)service.The focus of this paper is to describe these featured services and evaluate their performances.The results show that the inter-satellite link(ISL)contributes a lot to the accuracy improvement of orbit determination and time synchronization for the whole constellation.Compared with some other final products,the root mean squares(RMS)of the BDS-3 precise orbits and broadcast clock are 25.1 cm and 2.01 ns,respectively.The positioning accuracy of single frequency is better than 6 m,and that of the generalized RDSS is usually better than 12 m.For featured services,the success rates of RSMCS and GSMCS are better than 99.9% and 95.6%,respectively;the positioning accuracies of single and dual frequency BDSBAS are better than 3 and 2 m,respectively;the positioning accuracy of B2b-PPP is better than 0.6 m,and the convergence time is usually smaller than 30 min;the single station test shows that the success rate of MEOSAR is better than 99%.Due to the ISL realization in the BDS-3 constellation,the performance and capacities of the global featured services are improved significantly.

Principle and performance of BDSBAS and PPP-B2b of BDS-3

Within the framework of diferential augmentation,this paper introduces the basic technical framework and performance of the BeiDou Global Navigation Satellite System(BDS-3)Satellite-Based Augmentation System(BDSBAS),including orbit products,satellite clock ofset products,ionosphere and its integrity performance.The basic principle of BDS-3 Precise Point Positioning(PPP-B2b)is expounded,the similarities and diferences between the PPP service provided by BDS-3 and International Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)Service(IGS)are discussed,and the limitations of PPP-B2b are analyzed.Since both the BDSBAS and PPP-B2b utilize a ground monitoring station network to determine the satellite orbits and clock ofset corrections,and broadcast diferential corrections through the three Geostationary Orbit(GEO)satellites of BDS-3,the feasibility of the co-construction of BDSBAS and PPP-B2b is analyzed,strategies for the infrastructure sharing and correction broadcasting are presented,and the infuences of BDSBAS correction broadcasting strategy adjustment are evaluated.In addition,it assesses the possibility of broadcasting diferential corrections through the Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit(IGSO)satellites of BDS-3,and the feasibility of augmenting satellite navigation with Low Earth Orbit(LEO)satellites.