The Second Reprocessing Campaign of Historical Observations in the GNSS Data Analysis Centre of MAO NAS of Ukraine

Abstract

The second reprocessing campaign of historical observations of GNSS satellites at permanent stations located in Ukraine and in the Eastern Europe for GPS weeks 935–1708 (December 7, 1997 – October 6, 2012) was carried out in the GNSS Data Analysis Centre of the Main Astronomical Observatory NAS of Ukraine with using products updated in IGS repro2 and EPN-Repro2 campaigns – precise ephemerides of GPS and GLONASS satellites, coordinates and velocities of reference permanent GNSS stations, etc. The observations was analyzed with the Bernese GNSS Software ver. 5.2 according to the requirements of the EUREF Permanent GNSS Network (EPN), that were valid at that time. In total, observations on 72 GNSS stations, including 48 Ukrainian stations belonging to the following operators of GNSS networks: MAO NAS of Ukraine, Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, TNT TPI company (TNT TPI GNSS Network), PJSC System Solutions (System.NET), Lviv Polytechnic National University, UNAVCO, Inc. (USA), were processed. The IGb08 reference frame was realized by applying No-Net-Translation conditions on the coordinates of the IGS Reference Frame stations. As result, the stations’ coordinates in the IGb08 reference frame and the zenith tropospheric delays for all stations were estimated. The mean repeatabilities for components of stations’ coordinates for all weeks (the characteristics of the precision of the received daily and weekly solutions) are in the following ranges: for north and east components – from 0.6 mm to 1.6 mm (average values are 1.02 mm and 0.94 mm respectively), for height component – from 2.2 mm to 5.2 mm (average value is 3.36 mm) with the outlier of 5.79 mm for GPS week 943. The coordinates of the permanent GNSS stations for one weekly solution are presented.