BDS relative static positioning over long baseline improved by GEO multipath mitigation
Abstract Due to the satellite and constellation deployment design, the variation pattern of multipath effect in BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) code observation is different from GPS. The amplitude of systematic multipath variation (SMV) exists in multipath combination series may exceed 0.5 m for some geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites, which is larger than the normal noise level of GPS code observation. After characterization of the variation pattern of BDS multipath series for BDS GEO satellites, we propose to improve the performance of relative positioning over long baseline by mitigating the SMV effect of GEO satellite. The proposed method uses the SMV extracted from multipath (MP) combination series with adaptive wavelet transform as correction for current day observation in post processing use or as following day correction in real time use. In addition, the Double Station Observation Processing (DSOP) method that directly uses undifferenced observation is applied for relative static positioning. Experiment results show improvement in convergence speed for both BDS only and BDS/GPS combined solution.