THE INFLUENCE OF CONDITIONS FOR PASSING GLONASS AND GPS SATELLITE RADIO NAVIGATION SIGNALS ON THE ERRORS OF DEFINING RELATIVE COORDINATES

Abstract

The influence of the conditions for passing GLONASS and GPS satellite radio navigation signals on the errors of defining relative coordinates is overlooked.

Full Text

Preliminary analyses show that a significant source of error is the reason for differences in the conditions for the of GLONASS and GPS signals passed on to navigation spacecraft (NSC). It results in the difference of signal delay that could lead to an additional systematic error in determining relative coordinates. The differences in signal delays could be caused by several different reasons. The first reason is the influence of the ionosphere and the troposphere. The radio navigation equipment sometimes installed in places where a signal delay impact from the ionosphere and the troposphere can be distinguished. This difference is of random nature but if the distance between the antennas is increased, the error will also increase consequently because of the fact that the ionosphere and the troposphere properties will change. When the distance between radio navigation equipment antennas is more than 100 kilometers the difference in an atmospheric error signal transmitted from a navigation spacecraft could reach several meters. Another significant factor of measurement error is one caused by interference in the receiving end. This signal phase measurement error is caused by interference at the receiving antenna of the main signal or signals reflected from local items. This error component is often called a multipath error. Multipath errors depend on specific radio navigation equipment operation conditions, and typically can not be predicted. In most cases, this error could be considered as a random low-frequency component.