With the growth in civil and commercial applications, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) that provides the positioning, navigation, and timing information affects to our life. To meet all requirements for civilian users, particular efforts...
With the growth in civil and commercial applications, the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) that provides the positioning, navigation, and timing information affects to our life. To meet all requirements for civilian users, particular efforts are being made in real time research to enhance positioning accuracy using GNSS. Real-time positioning techniques by GPS have been applied to several application fields such as geographic information system, location based service and intelligent transportation system with the key technology. Currently GPS do not guarantee the centimeter level of accuracy. In general high accuracy positioning service is limited to about 10 kilometer from the reference stations. The limitation of RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) is the distance between the reference station and rover due to distance dependent biases such as orbit error, atmospheric delay. The main reason for the limited range of RTK is the difficulty in estimating the atmospheric error biases and something factors. These biases can be estimated at the GPS network using either an undifferenced or double differenced approach. The basic concept of differential technique is to mitigate or reduce the common error sources, such as ionospheric and tropospheric delay, orbit error, satellite and receiver clock error so on. To achieve more accurate coordinates of positions, differential GPS technique is required, which allows even centimeter level accuracy in positioning using the so-called integer ambiguity resolution technique. For RTK-GPS applications, a key component is to resolve double differenced carrier phase ambiguity and computational speed is crucial. GPS integer ambiguity resolution is a key issue in high accuracy positioning. It was used a modified Least square AMBiguity Decorrelation Adjustment (MLAMBDA) method which can significantly reduce the computational complexity of the LAMBDA method. The MLAMBDA method improves the computational efficiency of both of the reduction and the search stage. In this paper, grid based ionospheric error correction values derived by the GPS network are applied to improve the positioning accuracy of the experimental sites. The test is easily anticipated from the known accuracy of short-baseline RTK positioning. For about 4.78km baseline, all of data processing types give very high availability of ambiguity-fixed positions, approximately L1~95.7%, L2~97.3%, Narrow-Lane(NL)~86.7%, Wide-Lane (WL)~99.9%, and Geometry-Free(GF)~92.6%. The mean error component of positioning with three-dimensional RMS (Root Mean Square) value was deviated by less than 3 centimeter from the true coordinate. For about 16.90km baseline, it was provided static positioning accuracy to centimeter level. When applying the regional ionospheric corrections, the positioning accuracy was improved about L1~24.9%, L2~20.0%, NL~9.1%, WL~4.6% and GF~7.2% on average in a static processing mode respectively. In case of 26.41km, 65.34km and 146.28km baselines, comparative testing and analysis were also conducted with respect to the positioning accuracy and ambiguity resolution success rate that is an important measure for the reliability of integer ambiguity resolution. All testing results also revealed improvement in the success rate of ambiguity resolution. The performance of the algorithm suggested in this paper can further contribute to improvement of the positioning accuracy.