GNSS for High-Precision and Reliable Positioning: A Review of Correction Techniques and System Architectures
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This paper provides a comprehensive review of the existing approaches to ensuring high-precision and reliable GNSS positioning. The purpose of this review is to examine modern approaches to mitigating the main factors affecting GNSS receiver accuracy, including atmospheric delays, ephemeris and clock errors, multipath, and receiver noise, and to highlight the key open challenges in high-precision positioning and error correction. The article presents various error correction techniques and provides their analysis. It presents modern architectural solutions for GNSS receivers aimed at providing high-precision and reliable positioning (conventional, software-defined, multi-frequency and multi-constellation, cloud/edge, integrated GNSS/INS/LiDAR, and integrated GNSS/IoT) and their comparative analysis. The resulting overview will be useful for further research in the field of high-precision navigation.
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OpenAlex topics: GNSS positioning and interference · Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing · Geodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures
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Affiliations
Department of Science and Innovation, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Kazakh-British Technical University, 050000 Almaty, Kazakhstan
Center of Space Technologies, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 050040 Almaty, Kazakhstan
Ecology Research Institute, Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, 190000 Turkistan, Kazakhstan
Department of Space Engineering and Technology, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 010008 Astana, Kazakhstan
Institute of Communication and Space Engineering, Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications, 050013 Almaty, Kazakhstan
Funding
Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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