Research on single-epoch ambiguity resolution method based on BDS-3 ionosphere-reduced combinations

Abstract

In conventional ambiguity resolution method for single-epoch, narrow-lane (NL) observations are often inaccurately fixed due to improper treatment of error sources such as ionospheric and tropospheric delays. Therefore, based on the multi-frequency observation data of the BeiDou Global Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3), this paper adopts a single-epoch resolution method based on the ionosphere-reduced combinations. Firstly, select the appropriate combination observations of extra wide-lane (EWL) and wide-lane (WL) and get its fixed ambiguity. Then the ambiguity of the WL combination with high observation accuracy is obtained by linear combination, which goes to constrain the fixation of NL ambiguity. Secondly, different from the conventional method, the ionosphere-reduced combinations observations were selected as NL, thus significantly weakening the influence of first-order ionospheric delay error on the fixation of narrow-lane ambiguity. The experimental results show that compared with the conventional methods, the method adopted in this paper can significantly improve the fixing success rate of the wide-lane ambiguity. In the NL ambiguity resolution part, using the ionosphere-reduced combinations as NL for solving improved the average fixing success rate from 68.6%/44.4%/35.7%/27.6% to 97.4%/95.4%/95.6%/87.3% compared to the conventional method of using the base frequency as NL for solving. Furthermore, the N/E/U positioning accuracy improved by an average of 63.05%/64.37%/52.27%. To sum up, this method effectively improves the success rate of NL ambiguity fixing and positioning accuracy.