A differential GPS correction method for the position determination of a sounding rocket

Jyh Ching Juang, Yung Fu Tsai

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Abstract

In the paper, a differential GPS correction method is proposed for a sounding rocket experiment. DGPS schemes are known to be capable of removing common-mode errors between GPS receivers that are in vicinity. However, for a sounding rocket that could reach into the ionosphere, the standard differential correction method including local-area differential correction and wide-area differential correction may not be directly applicable due to the de-correlation between the on-board receiver and the receiver on ground as well as the limitation of the thin-shell model in modeling the ionospheric delay. In this paper, a differential correction scheme is proposed and applied to a sounding rocket program. The proposed scheme relies on the establishment of altitude-dependent ionospheric and tropospheric correction terms for GPS raw measurements. Together with rocket kinematics, a filtering solution of the rocket trajectory is obtained. In the paper, the data collection process is delineated and the post-processing results of a sounding rocket experiment are reported.

Original languageEnglish
Pages1174-1179
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 2005 Dec 1
Event18th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2005 - Long Beach, CA, United States
Duration: 2005 Sept 132005 Sept 16

Other

Other18th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLong Beach, CA
Period05-09-1305-09-16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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