Factors That Affect the Global Positioning System and Global Navigation Satellite System in an Urban and Forested Environment.

• Main Author: Ritchie, Douglas Allen
• Format: Others
• Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2007
• Subjects: Cycle slips; Urban; Multipath; GLONASS; GPS; Forested; Astrophysics and Astronomy; Instrumentation; Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Online Access: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2089; https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3450&context=etd

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy in real time measurements acquired from GPS and GLONASS satellite observations using RTK techniques in an urban and forested environment. To determine this accuracy, 2 data sets of 3-dimensional coordinates were created and compared at 14 stations situated at East Tennessee State University. One data set included coordinates determined by conventional land survey methods; the second was solved by RTK GPS/GLONASS. Once the magnitude of any deviation in the coordinate positions was determined, the contributions to the accuracies from cycle slips, multipath, satellite availability, PDOP, and fixed or float solutions were evaluated. Three points in the urban environment varied from the conventional data set. Multipath was assumed to be the major bias in these points. Seven points in the forested environment varied from the conventional data set. The use of float solutions and high PDOP may have caused this bias.