A nonlinear filtering approach for robust Multi-GNSS RTK positioning in presence of multipath and ionospheric delays

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 764-776

  Sahmoudi, Mohamed ^a   Landry, René ^a  

^a LaCIME Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carrier phase multipath indicator; Carrier phase measurements; Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS); Integer ambiguity resolution; Ionospheric delays; Kalman filter; Multiconstellation; Multifrequency; Particle filter; Robust statistics

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PHASE; CARRIER-PHASE MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INTEGER AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; IONOSPHERIC DELAYS; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTICONSTELLATION; PARTICLE FILTER; ROBUST STATISTICS;

ERRORS; ESTIMATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; KALMAN FILTERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OBSERVABILITY; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SOFTWARE TESTING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 78149337833     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2033158     Document Type: Article

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