Preprocessing of GNSS signals subject to interference

Abstract

Increasingly, interference effects on GNSS receivers are becoming important as more safety-critical applications such as civil aviation are employing the system. The inherent interference rejection capability of the GNSS spread spectrum modulating technique is now no longer considered adequate to remove the effects of very strong jammers. These can be generated intentionally, as in jamming situations, or unintentionally by systems such as mobile satellite systems. Continuous satellite tracking through this interference is essential for high-integrity applications. This study describes a new hardware-based GNSS interference mitigation scheme which is particularly effective against CW and pulsed CW interference. Interferers with some degree of frequency or amplitude modulation can also be reduced. The core hardware can remove two CW interferers from anywhere within the GPS P code bandwidth or the GLONASS frequency spectrum and further interferers can be removed by cascading modules. Simulation and actual data are shown. Owing to the wideband nature of the signal processing, the module introduces very little additional phase distortion and thus group delay to the GLONASS band, which has been shown to be advantageous to differential GLONASS processing. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.