New data processing strategy for single frequency GPS deformation monitoring

Abstract

Although the application of the single frequency receiver in GPS deformation monitoring is limited mainly by the effect of the ionospheric delays, the relevant studies have never been stopped due to the much cheaper price of the single frequency receivers. In this paper, we introduce a new data processing strategy for the deformation monitoring network where the baselines between any two nearest stations are processed instead of the baselines formed only between the reference stations and monitoring stations in the traditional strategy. As a result, most of the baselines in the monitoring networks are very short so as to the ionospheric effects can be safely ignored. The results from the experiments show that the new strategy can eliminate the effect of ionospheric delay by processing the short baselines in the network mode. The accuracy and integrity of the deformation solutions can be improved by the presented strategy.