Regional ionospheric modeling using wavelet network model

The Journal of Global Positioning Systems - Tập 15 - Trang 1-10 - 2017
Mohammed El-Diasty1,2
1Department of Hydrographic Surveying, Faculty of Maritime Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2Engineering Department of Public Works, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Tóm tắt

A major error component of Global Positioning System (GPS) is the ionospheric delay. Ionopspheric error can be reduced by a dual frequency receiver using a linear combination technique that can not be applied with a single frequecy receiver. However, an accurate ionospheric error modeling for single-frequency receiver is required. Due to the nonlinearity of the ionospheric error, a highly nonlinear wavelet network (WN) method is proposed in this paper. The main objective of the paper is to develop a short-term prediction model based on a short dataset. Therefore, five GPS stations with five days of ionospheric datasets along with time and location were employed to develop the proposed WN-based ionospheric model. Four days of datasets were employed to develop the model and one day of dataset was employed to test the prediction accuracy. To validate the WN-based ionospheric model, a comparison was made between the developed WN-based ionospheric model and the CODE, JPL and IGS Global Ionospheric Map (GIM) models. It is shown that the Root-Mean-Squared (RMS) errors of the developed WN-based ionospheric model are 2.51 TECU, 2.75 TECU and 2.50 TECU (Total Electronic Content Unit) with percentage errors of about 3.4%, 3.8% and 3.4% when compared with the CODE, JPL and IGS GIM models.

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