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Performance of real-time Precise Point Positioning using IGS real-time service

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Until recently, the real-time IGS precise orbit and clock corrections were only available for the predicted part of the ultra-rapid solution. Whereas the accuracy of the ultra-rapid orbit is about 5 cm, the root mean square (RMS) of the respective satellite clock corrections is, unfortunately, about 3 ns (0.9 m). Hence, high accuracy Precise Point Positioning (PPP) applications can be achieved only in post-processing rather than in realtime. With the availability of the IGS real-time service (RTS), it becomes possible to obtain precise satellite orbit and satellite clock corrections in realtime with accuracy better than those of the ultra-rapid products. Recent research has shown that GPS IGS RTS products availability is at least 95 %, which makes it possible to perform real-time PPP with high accuracy. We study the performance of IGS RTS products in PPP by introducing a detailed description and analysis of IGS RTS products, describing the broadcasting of the IGS RTS orbit and clock corrections and their implementation as corrections to the broadcast ephemerides, and analyzing IGS RTS in PPP using several, randomly selected globally distributed IGS stations. It is shown that using IGS RTS products in real-time PPP can improve the solution RMS by about 50 % compared with the solution obtained from the predicted part of the IGS ultra-rapid products.

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This work was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, under grant No. 263-980-1434. The Author, therefore, acknowledges with thanks DSR technical and financial support. The data sets used in this research were obtained from the IGS real-time service website http://igs.org/rts.

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Elsobeiey, M., Al-Harbi, S. Performance of real-time Precise Point Positioning using IGS real-time service. GPS Solut 20, 565–571 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-015-0467-z

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