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Comparison of Real-Time Ionospheric Delay Correction Models for Single-Frequency GNSS Receivers : Klobuchar Model and NeQuick Model  

Lee, Chang-Moon (인하대학교 사회기반시스템공학부 지리정보공학과)
Park, Kwan-Dong (인하대학교 사회기반시스템공학부 지리정보공학과)
Lee, Sang-Uk (한국전자통신연구원 위성항법연구팀)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography / v.28, no.4, 2010 , pp. 413-420 More about this Journal
Abstract
The ionospheric delay is currently one of the most significant error sources in precise GNSS surveys. The users of single-frequency receivers should apply some kind of ionospheric correction algorithms to remove or model the ionospheric delay. For real-time correction of the ionospheric delay, one can use Klobuchar or NeQuick model provided by navigation messages of GPS and Galileo, respectively. We evaluated the performance of those models by comparing their effectiveness at different seasons and latitudes. For the first test, we computed the vertical total electron content (VTEC) at the permanent GPS site SUWN for four different seasons. As the second test, we picked three sites in Korea (CHLW, SUWN, JEJU) with high, medium, and low latitudes and evaluated the dependency of VTEC on the site latitude. Computed VTEC values were compared with those from the IRI model and Global Ionosphere Maps (GIM). The root-mean-square (RMS) differences of Klobuchar and NeQuick with respect to IRI and GIM were analyzed. As a result, without regard to season and latitude, the RMS differences of NeQuick models were smaller than that of Klobuchar by about 0.01~3.50 TECU.
Keywords
Ionosphere; Klobuchar model; NeQuick model; GPS; Galileo;
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