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Rapid displacement determination with a stand-alone multi-GNSS receiver: GPS, Beidou, GLONASS, and Galileo

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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is an effective tool to retrieve displacement with high precision. Relative positioning and precise point positioning (PPP) are two basic techniques. We present a multi-GNSS dynamic PPP model considering the parameters of velocity and acceleration to determine high-precision displacement rapidly. The performance evaluations of dynamic PPP are conducted in terms of convergence time and positioning repeatability. The mean convergence time of GPS-only, Beidou-only, GPS + Beidou, GPS + GLONASS, GPS + Galileo, and quad-constellation dynamic PPP are 49.4, 104.5, 45.3, 39.9, 47.3, and 35.1 s, respectively. The Beidou-only dynamic PPP has poorer positioning repeatability than the GPS-only solution and the integration of multi-GNSS will enhance the positioning repeatability. The usability of multi-GNSS dynamic PPP for kinematic application is demonstrated by a vehicle-borne kinematic experiment and seismic waves capture data at station LASA during the 2015 Mw 7.8 Nepal earthquake. The dynamic PPP for the kinematic test will be improved in terms of positioning precision with more GNSS constellations and does not suffer the long convergence time compared with kinematic solutions.

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Acknowledgements

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project (Grant no. 41761134092), Jiangsu Province Distinguished Professor Project (Grant no. R2018T20) and Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of NUIST (Grant no. 2243141801036). We thanked IGS for providing the GNSS data. The LASA station GNSS data are obtained from the BETS networks in Wuhan University and the strong motion data at LASA are obtained from the IRIS Data Management Center. The authors thank the anonymous reviewers, for their constructive and detailed comments that significantly improved the manuscript.

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  1. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Ke Su & Shuanggen Jin

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Ke Su & Yulong Ge

  3. School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Shuanggen Jin

  4. National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, 710600, China

    Yulong Ge

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Su, K., Jin, S. & Ge, Y. Rapid displacement determination with a stand-alone multi-GNSS receiver: GPS, Beidou, GLONASS, and Galileo. GPS Solut 23, 54 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-019-0840-4

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