Abstract
Tropospheric delay is an important error affecting GNSS high‐precision navigation and positioning, which will decrease the precision of navigation and positioning if it is not well corrected. Actually, tropospheric delay, especially in the zenith direction, is related to a series of meteorological parameters, such as temperature and pressure. To estimate the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) as accurately as possible, the paper proposes a new fused model using the least squares support vector machines (LSSVM) and the particle swarm optimization (PSO) to improve the precision and temporal resolution of meteorological parameters in global pressure and temperature 2 wet (GPT2w). The proposed model uses the time series of meteorological parameters from the GPT2w model as the initial value, and thus, the time series of the residuals can be obtained between the meteorological parameters from meteorological sensors (MS) and the GPT2w model. The long time series of meteorological parameters is the evident periodic signal. The GPT2w model describes its dominant frequency (harmonics), and the residuals thus can be seen as the short‐period signal (nonharmonics). The combined PSO and LSSVM model (PSO‐LSSVM) is used to predict the specific value of the short‐period signal. The new GPT2w model, in which the meteorological parameter value is obtained by combining the estimated meteorological parameters residuals and the GPT2w‐derived meteorological parameters, can be acquired. The GNSS network stations in Hong Kong throughout 2017‐2018 are processed by the GNSS Processing and Analysis Software (GPAS), which is developed by the Chinese Academy of Surveying & Mapping, to estimate the zenith tropospheric delay and station coordinates using the new GPT2w model. Statistical results reveal that the accuracy of the new GPT2w model‐derived ZTD was improved by 60% or more compared with that of the GPT2w‐derived ZTD. In addition, the positioning accuracy of the GNSS station has been effectively improved up to 44.89%. Such results reveal that the new GPT2w model can greatly reduce the influence of nonharmonic components (short‐period terms) of the meteorological parameter time series and achieve better accuracy than the GPT2w model.
Highlights
Tropospheric delay is an important error that affects the positioning accuracy of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS)
The zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD), zenith hydrostatic delay (ZHD), and station coordinates can be obtained by GNSS Processing and Analysis Software (GPAS) using the meteorological parameters, which is developed by the Chinese Academy of Surveying & Mapping
To improve the accuracy of estimating ZTD, the new meteorological parameters model based on global pressure and temperature 2 wet (GPT2w) model and particle swarm optimization (PSO)-least squares support vector machines (LSSVM) model is proposed
Summary
Received 18 March 2021; Revised 7 April 2021; Accepted April 2021; Published May 2021. Tropospheric delay, especially in the zenith direction, is related to a series of meteorological parameters, such as temperature and pressure. To estimate the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD) as accurately as possible, the paper proposes a new fused model using the least squares support vector machines (LSSVM) and the particle swarm optimization (PSO) to improve the precision and temporal resolution of meteorological parameters in global pressure and temperature 2 wet (GPT2w). The positioning accuracy of the GNSS station has been effectively improved up to 44.89% Such results reveal that the new GPT2w model can greatly reduce the influence of nonharmonic components (short-period terms) of the meteorological parameter time series and achieve better accuracy than the GPT2w model
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