Ionospheric scintillation occurs mainly at high and low latitude regions of the Earth and may impose serious degradation on GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) functionality. The Brazilian territory sits on one of the most affected areas of the globe, where the ionosphere behaves very unpredictably, with strong scintillation frequently occurring in the local postsunset hours. The correlat...

Standalone Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is inadequate for precise navigation of aircrafts. Ground-based Augmentation System (GBAS) augments the performance of GNSS for civil aviation by providing differential corrections to the position of an aircraft during takeoff and landing. Ionospheric gradients affect the accuracy of GNSS and they can be detected and characterized from GNSS o...

J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 4 www.insidegnss.com GNSS modernization includes not only the global coverage capabilities of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou, but also regional GNSS enhancement systems such as Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). GNSS syst...

Original scientific paper A GNSS network of 36 points was established in 2006 in the eastern part of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, which is located between Tokat and Erzincan. GNSS measurements were made in 2006 ÷ 2008 in the Kelkit valley and these points’ velocities were calculated. This study compares GNSS velocities estimated with different datum definitions and the effects on fault locki...

The scope of D1.4 Gap Analysis of GNSS Receivers and Technology is to review the state-of-the-art for mass market receivers for the mobile terminal market, review the state-of-the-art for high-end Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers and identify technology gaps that exist. Given the investigations in D1.1 Market Definition and Core Technology Report on key core technological dri...

In this paper, we investigate the benefits of a MULTI-GNSS receiver in an interference environment. The global satellite navigation systems GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS and COMPASSwill be considered. The regional navigation systems QZSS and IRNSS are not part of the investigation. We assume that a future Multi-GNSS receiver will use only CDMA signals. Therefore, the FDMA signals of the GLONASS system ...

The celebrated LAMBDA method has been widely used in GNSS for fixing integer ambiguities. For real time kinematic GNSS applications with high dimensions, the computational speed is crucial. In this paper a modified LAMBDA method (MLAMBDA) is presented. Several strategies are proposed to reduce the computational complexity. Numerical simulations show that MLAMBDA is (much) faster than LAMBDA.

Herein, we propose a facile and efficient method to obtain the polystyrene/graphene nanosheets (PS/GNSs) nanocomposite particles. As far as we know, it is the first example that GNSs are attached onto the surface of PS microspheres, with such smooth morphology, and without relying on any surface pretreatments of substrate microspheres.

Ground-based pseudolite navigation systems have several limitations, such as low vertical accuracy, susceptibility to multipath effects, and near-far signal problems. These limitations could be addressed with an airborne pseudolite system. However, to ensure high user positioning accuracy the aerial signal transmitters have to be accurately positioned. Commonly used methods are based on the “in...

Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS) have been widely used for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). Therefore, the integrity of the satellite based navigation systems has been a major concern for many liability critical applications, such as civil aviation, and location-based services (LBS). Over the past two decades, GNSS Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) procedures ha...