A METHOD FOR GENERATING SATELLITE CLOCK CORRECTION FOR A FIRST SATELLITE

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for generating satellite clock corrections for a WADGPS network computes satellite dock corrections after removing other substantial error components. Errors caused by the ionospheric refraction effects are removed from GPS measurements taken at reference stations using dual-frequency GPS measurements. The multipath noise are removed by smoothing of GPS pseudorange code measurements with carrier-phase measurements. The tropospheric refraction effect can be largely removed by modeling, and if desired, can be improved by the use of small stochastic adjustments included in the computation of the clock correction. After removing the above error factors, satellite clock corrections are computed for individual reference stations, and an average clock correction is formed for each of a plurality of satellites by taking an average or weighted average of the satellite clock corrections over reference stations to which the satellite is visible.