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Modeling and mitigating carrier-phase multipath errors continue to be a significant challenge for high-accuracy positioning using global navigation satellite systems. The multipath error is dependent on the operational environment and therefore cannot be mitigated by differencing techniques. The effect of multipath is accentuated when observables based on linear combinations of measurements from two or more frequencies are formulated. We develop a new carrier-phase multipath error observable that isolates the inter-frequency carrier-phase multipath error for linear combinations of observables, such as wide-lane (WL). Real-time kinematic positioning results from varying baseline lengths show that a significant reduction in between 14 and 47 % in the time to initial ambiguity resolution are achieved by correcting the WL observable using the new carrier-phase multipath error observable.
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Moradi, R., Schuster, W., Feng, S. et al. The carrier-multipath observable: a new carrier-phase multipath mitigation technique. GPS Solut 19, 73–82 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-014-0366-8
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