scholarly journals The Range and Horizon Plane Simulation for Ground Stations of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellites

2011 ◽  
Vol 04 (09) ◽  
pp. 585-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shkelzen Cakaj ◽  
Bexhet Kamo ◽  
Vladi Koliçi ◽  
Olimpjon Shurdi
Keyword(s):  
Leo Satellites ◽  
Horizon Plane

scholarly journals GNSS RTK Positioning Augmented with Large LEO Constellation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingxing Li ◽  
Hongbo Lv ◽  
Fujian Ma ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Jinghui Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Earth Orbit ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite Systems ◽  
Convergence Time ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Satellite Systems ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Leo Satellites ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
Long Baselines

It is widely known that in real-time kinematic (RTK) solution, the convergence and ambiguity-fixed speeds are critical requirements to achieve centimeter-level positioning, especially in medium-to-long baselines. Recently, the current status of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) can be improved by employing low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. In this study, an initial assessment is applied for LEO constellations augmented GNSS RTK positioning, where four designed LEO constellations with different satellite numbers, as well as the nominal GPS constellation, are simulated and adopted for analysis. In terms of aforementioned constellations solutions, the statistical results of a 68.7-km baseline show that when introducing 60, 96, 192, and 288 polar-orbiting LEO constellations, the RTK convergence time can be shortened from 4.94 to 2.73, 1.47, 0.92, and 0.73 min, respectively. In addition, the average time to first fix (TTFF) can be decreased from 7.28 to 3.33, 2.38, 1.22, and 0.87 min, respectively. Meanwhile, further improvements could be satisfied in several elements such as corresponding fixing ratio, number of visible satellites, position dilution of precision (PDOP) and baseline solution precision. Furthermore, the performance of the combined GPS/LEO RTK is evaluated over various-length baselines, based on convergence time and TTFF. The research findings show that the medium-to-long baseline schemes confirm that LEO satellites do helpfully obtain faster convergence and fixing, especially in the case of long baselines, using large LEO constellations, subsequently, the average TTFF for long baselines has a substantial shortened about 90%, in other words from 12 to 2 min approximately by combining with the larger LEO constellation of 192 or 288 satellites. It is interesting to denote that similar improvements can be observed from the convergence time.

Rapid orbit determination of LEO satellites using IGS clock and ephemeris products

GPS Solutions ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Montenbruck ◽  
Eberhard Gill ◽  
Remco Kroes
Keyword(s):  
Orbit Determination ◽  
Leo Satellites
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