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Experimental Estimation of Deviation Frequency Within the Spectrum of Scintillations of the Carrier Phase of GNSS Signals

Version 1 : Received: 2 November 2021 / Approved: 4 November 2021 / Online: 4 November 2021 (09:41:04 CET)

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Demyanov, V.; Danilchuk, E.; Yasyukevich, Y.; Sergeeva, M. Experimental Estimation of Deviation Frequency within the Spectrum of Scintillations of the Carrier Phase of GNSS Signals. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 5017. Demyanov, V.; Danilchuk, E.; Yasyukevich, Y.; Sergeeva, M. Experimental Estimation of Deviation Frequency within the Spectrum of Scintillations of the Carrier Phase of GNSS Signals. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 5017.

Abstract

The term deviation frequency denotes the boundary between the variable part of the amplitude and phase scintillation spectrum and the part of uninformative noises. We suggested the concept of the “characteristic deviation frequency” during the observation period which is defined as the most probable value of the deviation frequency under current local conditions. This work is a case study of the characteristic deviation frequency (fd) registered for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and SBAS signals under quiet and weakly disturbed geomagnetic conditions in April 2021 at the mid-latitude GNSS station. Our results demonstrated that the fd value for all signal components of GPS, GLONASS and GALILEO signals varied within 15-22 Hz. The characteristic deviation frequency was 20 Hz for the mentioned GNSS signals. In difference, the deviation frequency was limited within 13-20 Hz for SBAS with the lower characteristic deviation frequency at 18 Hz. We assume that the concept of the characteristic deviation frequency can be used to determine the optimal sampling rate of the GNSS carrier phase data for the ionospheric studies. The characteristic deviation frequency can also characterize the state of the regular trans-ionospheric radio channel.

Keywords

ionosphere; scintillations; carrier phase; GNSS; GPS; GLONASS; Galileo; SBAS; GNSS signals; deviation frequency

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology

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