PDF Evaluation of Elliptically Contoured GNSS Integer Ambiguity Residuals

PDF Evaluation of Elliptically Contoured GNSS Integer Ambiguity Residuals

Teunissen, P.J.G. (TU Delft Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning; Curtin University; University of Melbourne)
Verhagen, S. (TU Delft Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning)

Freymueller, Jeffrey T. (editor)
Sánchez, Laura (editor)

2023

In this contribution we will present and evaluate the joint probability density function (PDF) of the multivariate integer GNSS carrier phase ambiguity residuals, thereby assuming that the GNSS data belong to the very general class of elliptically contoured (EC) distributions. Examples of distributions belonging to this class are the multivariate normal distribution, the t-distribution and the contaminated normal distribution. Since the residuals and their properties depend on the integer estimation principle used, we will present the PDF of the ambiguity residuals for the whole class of admissible integer estimators. This includes the estimation principles of integer rounding, integer bootstrapping, and integer least squares. The probabilistic properties of these estimators vary with the distributions from the EC-class. In order to get a better understanding of the various features of the joint PDF of the ambiguity residuals we will use a step-by-step construction aided by graphical means.

Ambiguity success-rate
GNSS
Integer ambiguity resolution
Integer least-squares (ILS)
Pull-in region
Z-transformation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8e56b997-2655-4ea6-8b71-6b9d8c13ab27

https://doi.org/10.1007/1345_2023_204

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

9783031553592

X Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy: Proceedings of the Symposium in Milan, Italy, June 13-17, 2022

10th Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy, 2022, 2022-06-13 → 2022-06-17, Milan, Italy

International Association of Geodesy Symposia, 0939-9585, 155

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© 2023 P.J.G. Teunissen, S. Verhagen