SUPREME: an open-source single-frequency uncombined precise point positioning software

With the rapid development of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), precise point positioning (PPP) has been widely used for positioning, navigation, timing (PNT), and atmospheric sensing. Currently, the demand for low-cost single-frequency hardware is increasing. However, open-source single-f...

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Published inGPS solutions Vol. 25; no. 3
Main Authors Zhao, Chuanbao, Zhang, Baocheng, Zhang, Xiao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2021
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Atmospheric Sciences
Automotive Engineering
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Electrical Engineering
Geophysics/Geodesy
Global navigation satellite system
GPS Toolbox
Low cost
Navigation satellites
Open source software
Parameter estimation
Satellite observation
Space Exploration and Astronautics
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics
Open-source software
Multi-GNSS
SUPREME
Precise point positioning (PPP)
Single frequency
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Summary:With the rapid development of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), precise point positioning (PPP) has been widely used for positioning, navigation, timing (PNT), and atmospheric sensing. Currently, the demand for low-cost single-frequency hardware is increasing. However, open-source single-frequency PPP (SFPPP) software, in particular those that employ uncombined GNSS observations, is scarce. In view of this fact, we developed an open-source software, called Single-frequency Uncombined PREcise point positioning for Multi-parameter Estimation (SUPREME), which can process multi-GNSS observations collected from a low-cost single-frequency receiver. It can simultaneously estimate receiver coordinates, receiver clock offsets, zenith tropospheric delays, and ionospheric delays utilizing a least-squares filter. SUPREME is developed in the C/C++ computer language; thus, it has good portability and cross-platform capability. The formatted output is also beneficial for the post-analysis of results. We evaluated SUPREME using several experiments based on real single-frequency data, and the results indicate that it provides high accuracy and robust performance.
ISSN:1080-5370
1521-1886
DOI:10.1007/s10291-021-01131-0