Near real-time estimation of ionosphere vertical total electron content from GNSS satellites using B-splines in a Kalman filter

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ERDOGAN E., SCHMİDT M., SEİTZ F., Durmaz M.

ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE, cilt.35, sa.2, ss.263-277, 2017 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 35 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5194/angeo-35-263-2017
  • Dergi Adı: ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.263-277
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Although the number of terrestrial global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers supported by the International GNSS Service (IGS) is rapidly growing, the worldwide rather inhomogeneously distributed observation sites do not allow the generation of high-resolution global ionosphere products. Conversely, with the regionally enormous increase in highly precise GNSS data, the demands on (near) real-time ionosphere products, necessary in many applications such as navigation, are growing very fast. Consequently, many analysis centers accepted the responsibility of generating such products. In this regard, the primary objective of our work is to develop a near real-time processing framework for the estimation of the vertical total electron content (VTEC) of the ionosphere using proper models that are capable of a global representation adapted to the real data distribution.