Research on single-epoch RTK positioning method based on Doppler relative velocimetry

Abstract

In the traditional single-epoch kinematic positioning, the positioning performance is relatively poor due to the less prior constraint information and lower success rate of ambiguity fixation. Accordingly, this paper proposes a single-epoch kinematic positioning method using Doppler relative velocity information constraint, that is, using Doppler observation information of rover station and base station for relative velocity measurement, and then using rover’s prior coordinates and velocity information to predict the coordinates of the current epoch, considering the advantages of higher accuracy of this method for coordinate update and more robustness of traditional single-point positioning, the corresponding strategy for single-epoch ambiguity resolution is further introduced to improve the positioning performance. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of the float solution and ambiguity fixation rate, especially when the satellite geometry is poor and the observation conditions are obscured.