衛星型GNSS補強システムにおける対流圏遅延補正方式

Abstract

A strategy to realize the tropospheric delay correction in satellite based augmentation systems is presented. The tropospheric delay is one of the major error sources of the GNSS signals. It is attempted to generate the correction information from the numerical weather prediction data to realize the tropospheric delay correction in real-time for mobile positioning. To introduce the correction information into the satellite based augmentation system, the amount of the correction data must be minimized without degrading the correction accuracy. In this paper, through several statistical evaluations using the long-term observation data, the appropriate contents and the data amount of the correction message are investigated. It is shown that the correction message should consist of the information of the tropospheric zenith delay and its average gradient in height. The amount of the correction data is also successfully minimized, and users in the region of Japan can receive the sufficient correction information by receiving only 3 messages. The results of the analyses clearly show the feasibility of the presented strategy.