Comparison of RT-PPP and RT-PPP-AR Methods

Abstract

The Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is an absolute positioning method which emerged as an alternative to the relative positioning method. This method is widely used in many applications in recent years. In this method the static and kinematic positioning can be performed with high accuracy by using single GNSS receiver. In the last few years, the PPP method has started to be used in real time (RT-PPP) thanks to the real-time precise products (satellite orbit and clock data) produced by different organizations like IGS, BKG, CNES, ESA, EUREF, GFZ etc. The high interest in RT-PPP has accelerated the development of this method and many software have been developed. Recently, some of the software have ability to apply integer ambiguity resolution (AR). For this purpose, in this study the positioning performance of RT-PPP method was tested using two options of PPP-WIZARD software (RT-PPP, RT-PPP-AR). Three IGS stations were chosen in different geographical regions. The real-time coordinates of the stations belong to the observation period of about 4 hours were derived simultaneously with the RT-PPP and RT-PPP-AR options in 1 second epoch interval. The results obtained are given in a comparative approach.