Modelling and Assessment of Single-Frequency PPP Time Transfer with BDS-3 B1I and B1C Observations

BDS-3 is now providing global positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services. BDS-3 has new B1C, B2a and B2b signals compared to BDS-2. This work presents two single-frequency (SF) PPP time transfer models using BDS-3, B1C and B1I observations, and studies the performance of BDS-3 SF PPP time tra...

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Published inRemote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 14; no. 5; p. 1146
Main Authors Wang, Shengli, Ge, Yulong, Meng, Xiaolin, Shen, Pengli, Wang, Kaidi, Ke, Fuyang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2022
Subjects
Accuracy
Ambiguity
B1I and B1C
BDS-3
Constraint modelling
Frequency stability
Global navigation satellite system
Ionosphere
Performance evaluation
Remote sensing
Satellites
single-frequency
time transfer
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Summary:BDS-3 is now providing global positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services. BDS-3 has new B1C, B2a and B2b signals compared to BDS-2. This work presents two single-frequency (SF) PPP time transfer models using BDS-3, B1C and B1I observations, and studies the performance of BDS-3 SF PPP time transfer by using 30-day data of 10 globally distributed stations from a multi-GNSS experiment (MGEX). We found that the ionospheric constraint SF PPP (SF1) time transfer model outperforms the method of SF PPP with the receiver clock offset at first epoch as the datum (SF2). Importantly, the statistical uncertainty of SF1 was less than 1 nanosecond, with (0.75, 0.71) ns in the average scheme for all time-links, using both B1I and B1C observations, respectively. The frequency stability of SF1 with B1C observations was improved from 1.73% to 13.04% in the short-term and from 0.88% to 17.49% in the long term, compared to that of B1I for all time-links. Hence, SF1 with B1C observations was recommended for SF PPP time transfer.
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs14051146