On Use of Low Cost, Compact GNSS Receiver Modules for Ionosphere Monitoring

Dan, Sukabya; Santra, Atanu; Mahato, Somnath; Koley, Chaitali; Banerjee, P.; Bose, Anindya

doi:10.1029/2021rs007344

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“…The Earth's ionosphere, is a layer of the atmosphere ranging within an attitude range 50 to 1000 km, formed by free electrons that are separated from atoms, when ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun is absorbed [1]. The free electrons impose refraction on radio waves travelling through the ionosphere at a level, which is proportional to the electron density.…”

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Ionospheric monitoring using a low-cost GNSS receiver

Oikonomou,

Karolos,

Bitharis

et al. 2023

Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2023)

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One of the principal techniques for ground-based ionospheric monitoring is based on high-grade Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers. Recently, the availability of low-cost commercial GNSS modules encouraged their exploitation in the frames of several positioning engineering applications. The aim of this study is to investigate the capability of a low-cost GNSS receiver in ionospheric monitoring with a performance comparable to that of a high-grade receiver with clear advantages in cost, size and power consumption. A comparative study between a LeicaGR30 high-grade geodetic receiver, and a low-cost, GNSS Receiver dual-frequency based on a sino gnssK803 OEM product is undertaken to explore the potential of the low-cost devices for sensing the ionosphere. The housing and operation firmware of the low-cost receiver were developed by Cloudwater Ltd. A measurement campaign for several days characterized by quiet and disturbed geomagnetic conditions, was undertaken in order to investigate the signal strength and total electron content (TEC) estimation. A GNSS signal splitter was connected with the two receivers under test and all data were recorded with a Leica AR20 choke ring antenna at Klirou (35°N, 33.2°E) which is about 25 Km SW from Nicosia in Cyprus.

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Ionospheric monitoring using a low-cost GNSS receiver

Oikonomou,

Karolos,

Bitharis

et al. 2023

Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2023)

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“…Latter studies also pointed out that the performance of low-cost GNSS equipment approaches the performance of geodetic-grade equipment, especially when low-cost helical-type antennas are used. Recent studies also showed that dual-frequency low-cost GNSS modules can also successfully used for ionospheric monitoring [30], and even show very good results for the monitoring of ionospheric scintillations, when being compared to state-of-the-art geodetic-grade equipment [31].…”

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Mpg-Net: A Low-Cost, Multi-Purpose Gnss Co-Location Station Network for Environmental Monitoring

Aichinger-Rosenberger¹,

Wolf²,

Senn³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Okoh et al in [ 8 ] and Dan et al in [ 9 ], found that the u-blox is a good candidate for TEC (Total Electron Content) studies, just like the high-cost receivers.…”

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Behavior of Low-Cost Receivers in Base-Rover Configuration with Geodetic-Grade Antennas

Sanna

Pisanu

Garau³

2022

Sensors

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The main goal of this research was to evaluate the performances of the ZED-F9P-Ublox low-cost GNSS receiver in a base-rover real configuration. We realized a base configuration with two permanent stations based on the ZED-F9P and two geodetic antennas and the rover configuration based on another ZED-F9P and an ANN-MB-00-00 Multi-band (L1, L2/E5b/B2I) active GNSS u-blox antenna. In the calculation of the reference stations, we compared the solutions with the ZED-F9P receiver and a professional receiver. Comparison showed greater variability in the solutions, but the coordinate values were in very good agreement. Standard deviations were in the order of a few millimeters. On the rover side, two car tests were performed in two different environments, one in an extra-urban environment with a long baseline of approximately 30 km in an open sky area with varying visibility and shielded locations, the other one in an urban area around a circle approximately 10 km in diameter with the presence of buildings and open sectors. The results of the measurements were very good, with more than 95% of fixed solutions in real-time and a time to fix on reacquisition of 1 or 2 s. Moreover, real-time kinematic solutions were in good agreement with the post-processed ones, showing that less than 5% of differences were above 30 mm in the horizontal component and 100 mm in the vertical component.

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On Use of Low Cost, Compact GNSS Receiver Modules for Ionosphere Monitoring

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Ionospheric monitoring using a low-cost GNSS receiver

Ionospheric monitoring using a low-cost GNSS receiver

Mpg-Net: A Low-Cost, Multi-Purpose Gnss Co-Location Station Network for Environmental Monitoring

Behavior of Low-Cost Receivers in Base-Rover Configuration with Geodetic-Grade Antennas

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