The GOOSE (GNSS Receiver with open software interface) Software-Defined Receiver has been developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Nürnberg, Germany. The main motivation for the development of this platform was to control the receiver at all stages, from digital signal processing to the PVT domain, and to enable controlled feedback to the hardware. Besides having access to all raw data including correlation values, the GOOSE receiver also enables for example tight- or ultra-tight integration with an inertial navigation system or other dead reckoning systems, as these kinds of architectures require access to the acquisition and tracking loops. In this paper, the tracking performance of the GOOSE platform was evaluated and compared to a reference receiver (Septentrio PolaRx5S). Several long data sessions were recorded on a “zero baseline” in which both receivers used the same precise geodetic antenna that was also developed at Fraunhofer IIS. The measurements were performed in a harsh environment (obstructions, multipath, possible interferences), as well as on a site with an unobstructed sky view. Quality and performance analyses were performed using raw measurements (in the domain of primary observables) of three civil GPS signals: L1CA, L2CM, and L5. The data were processed using the “zeroEdit” module of the TUB-NavSolutions academic software for education and research. The quality of the raw observables and tracking performance were described by the following parameters: number of cycle slips detected, number of un-correctable cycle slips, number of loss of locks of the signals, number of single epoch data gaps, and the length of carrier phase arcs. The presentation is illustrated with some numerical examples.
A state-of-the-art monitoring global navigation satellite system (GNSS) system has been originally designed and developed for various positioning and atmosphere-sensing purposes by the authors and updated to fulfil the challenging requirements for monitoring of ionospheric perturbations. The paper discusses various scientific and technically challenging issues, such as the requirement for an autonomous operating ground GNSS station and how this can be fulfilled. Basic algorithms for monitoring of local ionospheric perturbations with GNSS receivers are described. The algorithms require that inter-frequency hardware biases be known. Although the satellite transmitter biases can be obtain from the IGS services, the user takes responsibility for the estimation of frequency dependent receiver hardware biases and for the control of their variations. The instrumental signal delays are important for timing applications and GNSS monitoring of the ionosphere and are also required for recovering of the integer carrier-phase ambiguities. The paper presents an algorithm for calibration of inter-frequency biases of global positioning system (GPS) receivers and validates the first set of results.
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