421
the2Dpositioningaccuracy.Becausethereceivercan
track only those satellites above horizon (H
min > 0
O
),
VDOPwillalwaysbelargerthanHDOP.
In order to know the distribution four DOP
coefficients,VDOP,HDOP,PDOPandGDOP,values
of all four global mentioned above SNSs author’s
simulatingprogramwasused.Thecalculationsbased
on reference ellipsoid WGS−84 were made for the
observer at latitudes 50 – 60
O
for masking elevation
angle H
min = 5
O
(the most frequently used value in
SNS receiver) and H
min = 25
O
(representative for the
positioning in restricted area where the visibility of
satellites can be limited). The parameters of spatial
segment, the number of MEO satellites and time
intervalofconstellationrepeatabilityofallfourSNSs
are presented in the table 1. The geographical
longitudeofascendingnodeandargumentof
latitude
ofallGPSandGLONASSsatellitesweretakenfrom
currentconstellationsoftheseoperationalsystems,in
thecaseofGalileoandBeiDouitwasnominalfuture
constellation.
Table1. Global satellite navigation systems, parameters of
spatial segment and time interval of constellation
repeatability (www.beidou.gov.cn; www.glonass‐
ianc.rsa.ru; www.gps.gov; European GNSS, 2016,
www.gsc.europa.eu).
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System Orbit Orbit Numberof Number
altitudeinclinationorbitalperiods/ ofMEO
[km] [
o
]timeinterval satellites
[min]
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BeiDou 21,500 5513/10,091.48 27
Galileo 23,222 5617/14,360.75 24
GLONASS 19,100 64.8 17/11,488.44 24
GPS20,183 552/1435.94 31
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For each system and for each angle (H
min) one
thousand (1000) geographic–time coordinates of the
observer were generated by random–number
generatorwithuniformdistribution:
latitudeinterval0–600minutes(10O),
longitudeinterval0−21600minutes(360O),
timeintervalinminutesequaltimeofconstellation
repeatability(table1).
For each geographic–time coordinates the values
of
all four DOP coefficients were calculated. This
value (v) was divided for H
min = 5
O
into 5 intervals
(1≤v<1.5,1.5≤v<2,2≤v<3,3≤v<4,4≤v<8)andforH
min=
25
O
into8intervals(v<2,2≤v<3,3≤v<4,4≤v<5,5≤v<6,
6≤v<8,8≤v<20,v≥20).
Distributions of Dilution Of Precision (DOP)
coefficients values at latitudes 50 – 60
O
for all four
globalSNSformaskingelevationangleH
min=5
O
and
25
O
arepresentedinthetable2and3respectively.We
cansaythatinthefirstcase:
DOPcoefficientvalueisforallSNSsgreaterthan1
andlessthan3exceptforBeiDou(lessthan4),
thepercentageofthelowestvaluesofHDOP(less
than1.5)
isthegreatestforGPSsystem,
coefficientHDOPvalueisforallSNSsgreaterthan
1andlessthan3,
coefficients PDOP and GDOP are for all SNSs
greaterthan2andlessthan8,
andinthesecondcase:
asfortwoSNSs,GalileoandGPS,
thenumberof
satellitevisibleaboveHmin=25Ocanbelessthan
4 (3D position cannot be determined) No Fix (in
percentage) greater than 0, is equal 0.3 and 1.4,
respectively,
forallfourSNSsHDOPcoefficientcanbelessthan
2, coefficient VDOP is greater than 2
and PDOP
andGDOParegreaterthan3,thevalueofallDOP
coefficientscanbeforallSNSsgreaterthan20but
for GLONASS system this percentage is the
greatest,
thepercentageofHDOPcoefficientvaluelessthan
2 is for GPS system greater than for other three
SNSs,
considerably,
thepercentageofHDOPcoefficientlessthan3and
PDOP and GDOP coefficients less than 4 is the
lowestforGLONASSsystem.
Thenumberofsatellites(ls)usedinGPSorDGPS
positiondeterminationandthechangesofHDOPand
VDOPcoefficientvaluesin different days in Gdynia
arepresentedinthetable4.Alldatawereregistered
each minute. For all series of measurements the
number ls is for GPS system greater than for DGPS
system, in the case of DOP coefficients the both
externalvaluesofintervalareforVDOPgreaterthan
forHDOP.Additionallywecan
saythatiflsisgreater
bothcoefficientscanbeandinthemostcasesareless
andvice versa if ls is lower both coefficients can be
andaregreater(table5).
Table2. Distribution of Dilution Of Precision (DOP)
coefficient values (v) for satellite navigation systems,
BeiDou(BeiD),Galileo(GAL), GLONASS(GLO)andGPS,
elevationmask5
O
,latitude50–60
O
(ownstudy).
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DOP SystemCoefficientvalue−v
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1<v≤1.51.5<v≤22<v≤33<v≤44<v≤8
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HDOP BeiD 3.287.4 9.4−−
GAL 4.375.6 20.1−−
GLO 4.171.1 24.8−−
GPS 6.989.9 3.2−−
VDOP BeiD 28.1 64.4 6.90.6−
GAL 23.8 67.8 8.4−−
GLO 16.9 68.9 14.2−−
GPS 41.6 48.6 9.8−−
PDOP BeiD−−88.7 11.2 0.1
GAL−−83.2 16.8 −
GLO−−78.8 21.2 −
GPS−−91.2 8.60.2
GDOP BeiD−−70.3 27.8 1.9
GAL−−68.7 30.8 0.5
GLO−−61.3 38.7 −
GPS−−79.5 19.7 0.8
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ThevaluesofthreeDOPcoefficientsindicatedby
fivedifferentstationaryGPSreceivers(FurunoGP33,
LeicaMX420,MagnavoxMX200,SaabR5Su‐preme
Nav, Simrad MX512)locatedinGdynia for
differentmaskingelevationanglesH
minanddifferent
numbers of satellites visible and used for position
determinationarepresentedinthetable6.Inthecase
ofFuruno33receiverthelowestvalueofH
minis5
O
.
The stationary receivers destined for maritime
userscanindicate one (Furuno and Magnavox), two
(Leicaand Simrad) orthree (Saab) DOP coefficients.
From among five mentioned above receivers HDOP
coefficient is indicated by all except for Furuno,
VDOPbyLeica,Saab,Simrad,PDOPbyFurunoand
Saab.GDOPandTDOP
arenotindicated.