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SGS85--WGS84 transformation - interim results

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory Report ATC-204
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GPS and GLONASS employ different geocentric Cartesian coordinate frames to express the positions of their satellites and, therefore, of their users. GPS uses WGS84; GLONASS, SGS85. Interest in the civil aviation community in using signals from both systems requires that a transformation between the two coordinate frames be determined. We present an estimate of the SGS85--WGS84 transformation.
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GPS and GLONASS employ different geocentric Cartesian coordinate frames to express the positions of their satellites and, therefore, of their users. GPS uses WGS84; GLONASS, SGS85. Interest in the civil aviation community in using signals from both systems requires that a transformation between the two coordinate frames be determined. We...

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GLONASS performance in 1992: a review

Published in:
GPS World, Vol. 4, No. 5, May 1993, pp. 28-39.

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Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory reviewed GLONASS developments during 1992, focusing on the requirements of civil aviation and the issues related to position estimation. The results show that the overall performance remains substantially the same as observed in 1991.
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Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory reviewed GLONASS developments during 1992, focusing on the requirements of civil aviation and the issues related to position estimation. The results show that the overall performance remains substantially the same as observed in 1991.

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Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) of GPS and GLONASS

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Navig. J. Inst. Navig., Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 87-104.

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A receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) algorithm is proposed, and used to analyze the integrity monitoring capabilities of potential sole-means (or stand-alone) systems based on integrated use of GPS and GLONASS, GPS supplemented with a geostationary overlay, and enhanced GPS constellations. As in the other RAIM algorithms, the idea is to take advantage of the redundant measurements. Our focus, however, is on the quality of the position estimate, rather than on diagnosing whether the system is working as intended. The proposed approach uses the redundant measurements to generate a position estimate and a measure of its quality. The latter, called integrity level, is defined as an upper bound on the position error. The estimation of the integrity level is the main innovation in the proposed scheme. The RAIM algorithm is tailored to an abundant redundancy of the measurements, and addresses the following issue: Given a snapshot of the pseudo range measurements, one of which may be in error, can we compute a position estimate that can be shown with high confidence to meet the user's accuracy requirement?
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A receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) algorithm is proposed, and used to analyze the integrity monitoring capabilities of potential sole-means (or stand-alone) systems based on integrated use of GPS and GLONASS, GPS supplemented with a geostationary overlay, and enhanced GPS constellations. As in the other RAIM algorithms, the idea is...

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Integrated use of GPS and GLONASS in civil aviation navigation I: coverage and data models

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Institute of Navigation, 3rd Int. Technical Mtg. of the Satellite Division, 19-21 September 1990, pp. 425-435.

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Pursuant to a bilateral agreement signed in 1988, both US and USSR are currently in the process of examining integrated use of GPS and GLONASS for sole-means civil aviation navigation. This paper presents results from the initial phase of a program underway at MIT Lincoln Laboratory to support this effort. Specifically, we present results on satellite coverage and quality of the range measurements from GPS and GLONASS. The coverage results highlight the extent to which each system alone falls short of providing a self-contained system integrity check. In integrated use, however, there are enough redundant measurements to make receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) practical. The data quality results are based on statistical analysis of the range measurements from GPS, at various levels of selective availability (SA), collected over extended periods. We present empirical cumulative distribution function of the range error, and RMS value of its component, defined as the 'effective' range error, relevant to position estimation. These results are used to project the position estimation. These results are used to project the position estimation accuracy achievable globally with GPS, when operational. Comparable results for GLONASS are being developed. The coverage and data quality results together provide a basis for development of the navigation and RAIM algorithms for the integrated use. This will be addressed in the next phase of the program. The important considerations in the design of these algorithms, including the differences in the reference systems for space and time employed by the two systems, are briefly reviewed.
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Pursuant to a bilateral agreement signed in 1988, both US and USSR are currently in the process of examining integrated use of GPS and GLONASS for sole-means civil aviation navigation. This paper presents results from the initial phase of a program underway at MIT Lincoln Laboratory to support this effort...

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