2016
Lee, Jiyun
Equatorial Plasma Bubble Effects on GBAS and Its Mitigation Techniques Conference
International Beacon Satellite Symposium 2016, Trieste, Italy, 2016.
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Yoon, Moonseok, kim, Dongwoo, Lee, Jiyun, Rungruengwajiake, Sarawoot, Pullen, Sam
Proceedings of the 2016 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Monterey, California, 2016.
@conference{Yoon2016,
title = {Assessment of Equatorial Plasma Bubble Impacts on Ground-Based Augmentation Systems in the Brazilian Region},
author = {Moonseok Yoon and Dongwoo kim and Jiyun Lee and Sarawoot Rungruengwajiake and Sam Pullen},
doi = {10.33012/2016.13423},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation},
pages = {368 - 379},
address = {Monterey, California},
abstract = {A preliminary Brazilian ionospheric anomaly threat model for Ground Based Augmentation Systems (GBASs) was developed from a comprehensive analysis using many days of ionospheric data from Brazil to reflect low-latitude conditions. Most anomalous ionospheric spatial gradients in this model were caused by nighttime Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs). In particular, the largest observed EPB-induced gradient (~860 mm/km) is two times larger than the upper bound (425 mm/km) on spatial gradients for the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS). The higher bound in the Brazilian ionospheric threat model has a significant effect on GBAS performance and availability. More detailed performance evaluation based on the Brazilian threat model is needed before GBAS can be made operational there. This paper first assesses the performance of GBAS with Position Domain Geometry Screening (PDGS), which has been used in CONUS. Using the parameters of the preliminary EPB threat model, sets of worst-case geometries among an EPB gradient front and satellite Ionospheric Pierce Points (IPP) are generated. To calculate undetected range errors for hypothetical GBAS users, we derive an analytical ionosphere-induced differential range error model. Based on these inputs, we analyze the performance of GBAS under worst-case ionospheric conditions. The results show that inflating the standard deviation of the vertical ionospheric gradient only is not sufficient to completely remove potentially unsafe satellite geometries. This leads to additional inflation of the standard deviation of pseudorange correction errors. If the maximum EPB-induced gradient is larger than about 600 mm/km, the resulting CATegory-I (CAT-I) GBAS availability is significantly degraded, making it difficult to meet the system requirement using this approach. For this reason, we have also employed Monte Carlo analysis. The key difference from the previous approach is that credit is taken for a prior probability of an extreme EPB event instead of assuming that worst-case storms occur with a probability of one in PDGS. This stochastic approach assesses the overall user impact by running many anomalous ionospheric trials based upon numerous combinations of threat model parameters. For each subset geometry, it is assumed that either one or two satellites are affected by the worst-case gradient while the remaining satellites are affected by anomalous but non-worst-gradients. Therefore, the worst-case impact should be approximated by inclusion in the distribution of simulation results. A real-time mitigation scheme based on the Monte Carlo method, which also requires sigma parameter inflation, is proposed that takes credit for the prior probability. System availability evaluation using the Monte Carlo approach with a single worst-case satellite impact shows that the availability penalty is significantly reduced compared to the previous (worst-case) method.},
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A preliminary Brazilian ionospheric anomaly threat model for Ground Based Augmentation Systems (GBASs) was developed from a comprehensive analysis using many days of ionospheric data from Brazil to reflect low-latitude conditions. Most anomalous ionospheric spatial gradients in this model were caused by nighttime Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs). In particular, the largest observed EPB-induced gradient (~860 mm/km) is two times larger than the upper bound (425 mm/km) on spatial gradients for the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS). The higher bound in the Brazilian ionospheric threat model has a significant effect on GBAS performance and availability. More detailed performance evaluation based on the Brazilian threat model is needed before GBAS can be made operational there. This paper first assesses the performance of GBAS with Position Domain Geometry Screening (PDGS), which has been used in CONUS. Using the parameters of the preliminary EPB threat model, sets of worst-case geometries among an EPB gradient front and satellite Ionospheric Pierce Points (IPP) are generated. To calculate undetected range errors for hypothetical GBAS users, we derive an analytical ionosphere-induced differential range error model. Based on these inputs, we analyze the performance of GBAS under worst-case ionospheric conditions. The results show that inflating the standard deviation of the vertical ionospheric gradient only is not sufficient to completely remove potentially unsafe satellite geometries. This leads to additional inflation of the standard deviation of pseudorange correction errors. If the maximum EPB-induced gradient is larger than about 600 mm/km, the resulting CATegory-I (CAT-I) GBAS availability is significantly degraded, making it difficult to meet the system requirement using this approach. For this reason, we have also employed Monte Carlo analysis. The key difference from the previous approach is that credit is taken for a prior probability of an extreme EPB event instead of assuming that worst-case storms occur with a probability of one in PDGS. This stochastic approach assesses the overall user impact by running many anomalous ionospheric trials based upon numerous combinations of threat model parameters. For each subset geometry, it is assumed that either one or two satellites are affected by the worst-case gradient while the remaining satellites are affected by anomalous but non-worst-gradients. Therefore, the worst-case impact should be approximated by inclusion in the distribution of simulation results. A real-time mitigation scheme based on the Monte Carlo method, which also requires sigma parameter inflation, is proposed that takes credit for the prior probability. System availability evaluation using the Monte Carlo approach with a single worst-case satellite impact shows that the availability penalty is significantly reduced compared to the previous (worst-case) method.
2015
Choi, Pilhoon, Yoon, Moonseok, Yang, Yu-ming, Lee, Jiyun, Komjathy, Attila
Ionospheric Signatures of the Earthquake in South Korea on 31 March 2014 Conference
AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, CA, 2015.
@conference{Choi2015,
title = {Ionospheric Signatures of the Earthquake in South Korea on 31 March 2014},
author = {Pilhoon Choi and Moonseok Yoon and Yu-ming Yang and Jiyun Lee and Attila Komjathy},
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-12-14},
booktitle = {AGU Fall Meeting 2015},
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abstract = {Previous studies on interactions between the atmospheric waves and ionospheric perturbations concluded that the acoustic-gravity waves triggered by solid earth events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and underground nuclear tests may be used in detecting the ionospheric perturbations. Ionospheric perturbations have been observed using sounding radars and GPS remote sensing techniques since 1970s. As primary examples, ionospheric disturbances associated with the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 were observed and analyzed using GPS measurements. In this work, we processed GPS stations in South Korea and analyzed traveling ionospheric disturbances that were coincident with the 2014 South Korean earthquake. The 31 March 2014 earthquake occurred at 19:48 UTC and the magnitude of this event was registered to be 5.0 Mw. This earthquake is the fourth strongest in South Korea since records began. After analyzing GPS measurements from nearby stations, strong ionospheric perturbations were observed about 20 minutes after the reported event, and the disturbances were shown to have primarily a wave train with periods of 60-120 minutes. The maximum VTEC perturbations turned out to be between 0.6 to 1.3 TECU. In this research, we will analyze the characteristics of the detected ionospheric perturbations associated with the earthquake and compare these results with those from man-made earthquakes such as underground nuclear tests. These findings are expected to verify our modeling results. We also hope to get a better understanding of the influence of both natural hazards and man-made hazards on the temporal and spatial variability of the global ionosphere.},
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Previous studies on interactions between the atmospheric waves and ionospheric perturbations concluded that the acoustic-gravity waves triggered by solid earth events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and underground nuclear tests may be used in detecting the ionospheric perturbations. Ionospheric perturbations have been observed using sounding radars and GPS remote sensing techniques since 1970s. As primary examples, ionospheric disturbances associated with the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 were observed and analyzed using GPS measurements. In this work, we processed GPS stations in South Korea and analyzed traveling ionospheric disturbances that were coincident with the 2014 South Korean earthquake. The 31 March 2014 earthquake occurred at 19:48 UTC and the magnitude of this event was registered to be 5.0 Mw. This earthquake is the fourth strongest in South Korea since records began. After analyzing GPS measurements from nearby stations, strong ionospheric perturbations were observed about 20 minutes after the reported event, and the disturbances were shown to have primarily a wave train with periods of 60-120 minutes. The maximum VTEC perturbations turned out to be between 0.6 to 1.3 TECU. In this research, we will analyze the characteristics of the detected ionospheric perturbations associated with the earthquake and compare these results with those from man-made earthquakes such as underground nuclear tests. These findings are expected to verify our modeling results. We also hope to get a better understanding of the influence of both natural hazards and man-made hazards on the temporal and spatial variability of the global ionosphere.
Sun, Kiyoung, Yoon, Moonseok, Lee, Jiyun
Statistical Assessment of Ionospheric Perturbation Amplitudes Caused by Tohoku-Oki Earthquake in Japan Conference
2015 7th Kyushu University-KAIST Symposium on Aerospace Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015.
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title = {Statistical Assessment of Ionospheric Perturbation Amplitudes Caused by Tohoku-Oki Earthquake in Japan},
author = {Kiyoung Sun and Moonseok Yoon and Jiyun Lee},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-12-11},
booktitle = {2015 7th Kyushu University-KAIST Symposium on Aerospace Engineering},
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Lee, Dong-Kyeong, Lee, Jiyun
Validation of Code Carrier Divergence Monitor for GBAS Category II/III Operations Conference
2015 7th Kyushu University-KAIST Symposium on Aerospace Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015.
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title = {Validation of Code Carrier Divergence Monitor for GBAS Category II/III Operations},
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of DSIGMA Monitor for GBAS Category II/III Operations, Validation
Validation of DSIGMA Monitor for GBAS Category II/III Operations Conference
2015 7th Kyushu University-KAIST Symposium on Aerospace Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015.
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title = {Validation of DSIGMA Monitor for GBAS Category II/III Operations},
author = {Validation of DSIGMA Monitor for GBAS Category II/III Operations},
editor = {Eunjeong Hyeon and Jiyun Lee},
year = {2015},
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Lee, Jinsil, Pullen, Sam, Lee, Jiyun
Vertical Position Error Bounding for Integrated Sensors to Support Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Conference
SCPNT 2015, Stanford, CA, 2015.
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title = {Vertical Position Error Bounding for Integrated Sensors to Support Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)},
author = {Jinsil Lee and Sam Pullen and Jiyun Lee},
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Kim, Dongwoo, Lee, Kihun, Jang, Jaekyu, Lee, Jiyun
Characterization of GLONASS Clock and Ephemeris Error for Advanced Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitor (ARAIM) Conference
ISGNSS 2015, Kyoto, Japan, 2015.
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title = {Characterization of GLONASS Clock and Ephemeris Error for Advanced Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitor (ARAIM)},
author = {Dongwoo Kim and Kihun Lee and Jaekyu Jang and Jiyun Lee},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-11-02},
booktitle = {ISGNSS 2015},
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Pullen, Sam, Lee, Jiyun, Yoon, Moonseok
Optimal Scheduling of Arrivals at Low-Latitude Airports under Severe Ionospheric Spatial Gradients Conference
The 4th ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS, Tokyo, Japan, 2015.
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title = {Optimal Scheduling of Arrivals at Low-Latitude Airports under Severe Ionospheric Spatial Gradients},
author = {Sam Pullen and Jiyun Lee and Moonseok Yoon},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-11-01},
booktitle = {The 4th ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS},
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Lee, Jiyun, Yoon, Moonseok, Pullen, Sam, Gillespie, Joseph, Mather, Navin, Cole, Rich, de Souza, Jonas Rodrigues, Doherty, Patricia, Pradipta, Rezy
Proceedings of the 28th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2015), Tampa, Florida, 2015.
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title = {Preliminary Results from Ionospheric Threat Model Development to Support GBAS Operations in the Brazilian Region},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Moonseok Yoon and Sam Pullen and Joseph Gillespie and Navin Mather and Rich Cole and Jonas Rodrigues de Souza and Patricia Doherty and Rezy Pradipta},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=13040},
year = {2015},
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abstract = {The Brazil ionospheric study project aims to develop a new Ground-based Augmentation System (GBAS) ionospheric threat model which reflect Brazilian low-latitude conditions. This study utilizes dual-frequency GNSS data collected on about 120 active ionosphere days to assess the Brazilian ionospheric behavior. Over 1000 threat points were generated from post-processed data, and most of these ionospheric gradients are caused by night-time Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs). A significant number of ionospheric gradients exceeded the upper bounds (375 – 425 mm/km) of the Conterminous U.S (CONUS) threat model. In particular, the largest gradient of about 850 mm/km is twice as large as the maximum gradient observed in CONUS. Since a larger bound would have a significant effect on system performance and availability, more-detailed study of the behavior of the most severe ionospheric gradients is desirable before finalizing the threat model. This paper also defines other threat model parameters to model the geometry of EPBs. The observations from Brazil were examined to quantify other existing parameters used to model ionospheric storms in mid-latitude regions and newly introduced parameters for EPBs. The maximum depletion of 35 meters and transition zone lengths of about 20 – 450 km have been estimated for the EPBs which produced the most extreme gradients. These EPBs appeared to be moving roughly eastward and parallel to the geomagnetic equator (within ±35 degrees of the magnetic north) with speeds of about 40 – 250 m/s. EPBs occurred mostly during post-subset hours between 1800 and 0500 local time with the peak in the late evening just before local midnight. Defining and modeling these characteristics of EPBs are key to the development of a GBAS ionospheric mitigation and safety case for operational approval in Brazil and the southern hemisphere.},
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The Brazil ionospheric study project aims to develop a new Ground-based Augmentation System (GBAS) ionospheric threat model which reflect Brazilian low-latitude conditions. This study utilizes dual-frequency GNSS data collected on about 120 active ionosphere days to assess the Brazilian ionospheric behavior. Over 1000 threat points were generated from post-processed data, and most of these ionospheric gradients are caused by night-time Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs). A significant number of ionospheric gradients exceeded the upper bounds (375 – 425 mm/km) of the Conterminous U.S (CONUS) threat model. In particular, the largest gradient of about 850 mm/km is twice as large as the maximum gradient observed in CONUS. Since a larger bound would have a significant effect on system performance and availability, more-detailed study of the behavior of the most severe ionospheric gradients is desirable before finalizing the threat model. This paper also defines other threat model parameters to model the geometry of EPBs. The observations from Brazil were examined to quantify other existing parameters used to model ionospheric storms in mid-latitude regions and newly introduced parameters for EPBs. The maximum depletion of 35 meters and transition zone lengths of about 20 – 450 km have been estimated for the EPBs which produced the most extreme gradients. These EPBs appeared to be moving roughly eastward and parallel to the geomagnetic equator (within ±35 degrees of the magnetic north) with speeds of about 40 – 250 m/s. EPBs occurred mostly during post-subset hours between 1800 and 0500 local time with the peak in the late evening just before local midnight. Defining and modeling these characteristics of EPBs are key to the development of a GBAS ionospheric mitigation and safety case for operational approval in Brazil and the southern hemisphere.
Circiu, Mihaela-Simona, Felux, Michael, Belabbas, Boubeker, Meurer, Michael, Lee, Jiyun, Kim, Minchan, Pullen, Sam
Proceedings of the 28th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2015), Tampa, Florida, 2015.
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title = {Evaluation of GPS L5, Galileo E1 and Galileo E5a Performance in Flight Trials for Multi Frequency Multi Constellation GBAS},
author = {Mihaela-Simona Circiu and Michael Felux and Boubeker Belabbas and Michael Meurer and Jiyun Lee and Minchan Kim and Sam Pullen},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=12967},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-09-14},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2015)},
pages = {897 - 906},
address = {Tampa, Florida},
abstract = {This paper presents a noise and multipath performance analysis of the new signals roadcast by the Block IIF GPS satellites on L5 and Galileo satellites on E1 and E5a using airborne flight data. Improved performance has been previously observed using ground measurement and is now validated using data from different flight tests. This is especially true for GPS L5 and Galileo E5a. However, on the airborne side, the performance of Galileo E1 signal is closer to that of GPS L1. The impact of different parameters on the airborne multipath, including receiver correlator spacing, airframe structure, ground influence, and smoothing time, are investigated and discussed.},
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This paper presents a noise and multipath performance analysis of the new signals roadcast by the Block IIF GPS satellites on L5 and Galileo satellites on E1 and E5a using airborne flight data. Improved performance has been previously observed using ground measurement and is now validated using data from different flight tests. This is especially true for GPS L5 and Galileo E5a. However, on the airborne side, the performance of Galileo E1 signal is closer to that of GPS L1. The impact of different parameters on the airborne multipath, including receiver correlator spacing, airframe structure, ground influence, and smoothing time, are investigated and discussed.
Felux, Michael, Lee, Jiyun, Holzapfel, Florian
Total System Performance in GBAS-based Landings Conference
Proceedings of the ION 2015 Pacific PNT Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2015.
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title = {Total System Performance in GBAS-based Landings},
author = {Michael Felux and Jiyun Lee and Florian Holzapfel},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=12764},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-04-20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ION 2015 Pacific PNT Meeting},
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abstract = {The requirements for a CAT-II/III capable GBAS (the so called GBAS Approach Service Type (GAST) D) are derived from the definition of a safe landing. The respective performance requirements are given in terms of touchdown performance of the aircraft which has two main influencing parameters: the flight technical error (FTE) and the navigation system error (NSE). In the process of deriving and standardizing the GBAS requirements a fixed value for the FTE is assumed. In this paper we show potential benefits from using the deviations from the nominal approach path to assess the FTE performance during an approach instead of using conservative assumptions. Depending on the prevailing wind conditions, the FTE performance is typically better than the value which is derived in the certification of an aircraft. This opens the potential to either improve availability of the GBAS service or optimize the landing with respect to runway capacity or risk minimization for a runway overrun.},
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The requirements for a CAT-II/III capable GBAS (the so called GBAS Approach Service Type (GAST) D) are derived from the definition of a safe landing. The respective performance requirements are given in terms of touchdown performance of the aircraft which has two main influencing parameters: the flight technical error (FTE) and the navigation system error (NSE). In the process of deriving and standardizing the GBAS requirements a fixed value for the FTE is assumed. In this paper we show potential benefits from using the deviations from the nominal approach path to assess the FTE performance during an approach instead of using conservative assumptions. Depending on the prevailing wind conditions, the FTE performance is typically better than the value which is derived in the certification of an aircraft. This opens the potential to either improve availability of the GBAS service or optimize the landing with respect to runway capacity or risk minimization for a runway overrun.
Yoon, Moonseok, Kim, Dongwoo, Lee, Jiyun, Pullen, Sam
Proceedings of the ION 2015 Pacific PNT Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2015.
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title = {Multi-dimensional Verification Methodology of Ionospheric Gradient Observation during Plasma Bubble Events in the Brazilian Region},
author = {Moonseok Yoon and Dongwoo Kim and Jiyun Lee and Sam Pullen},
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-04-20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ION 2015 Pacific PNT Meeting},
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abstract = {Ionospheric activity in equatorial regions is known to be significantly more variable and intense than in mid-latitude regions. Prior to the initiation of Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) service in the Brazilian region, it is necessary to make provisions for being sufficiently robust to all possible ionospheric anomalies through development of an ionospheric anomaly threat model. In the Brazilian region, ionospheric spatial gradients larger than the upper bounds of the Conterminous U.S (CONUS) threat model developed for the mid-latitude region are frequently observed in the presence of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs). The higher bounds in the resulting ionospheric threat model have a significant effect on performance, availability, and the eventual approval of the system. Thus, verification of observed ionospheric spatial gradients is important since observations verified to be due to EPBs will be used to determine the upper bound of the ionospheric anomaly threat model for GBAS in Brazil. This paper applies a two-phase procedure of validating extremely large ionospheric gradients caused by low-latitude ionospheric anomaly events in the Brazilian region. This multi-dimensional approach rules out the possibility of receiver-instigated events, single satellite faults, and post-processing errors creating an apparent gradient that is nonexistent. However, the relatively smaller scale of EPBs and the sparse distribution of the Brazilian network stations makes it difficult to use the existing validation methods developed for mid-latitudes. Thus, this paper also proposes a new verification methodology based on the time-step method in order to augment the two-phase validation procedure. This methodology utilizes multiple satellites and stations that exhibit a similar trend of ionospheric delay to that of the threat candidate. The time-step method enables us to estimate ionospheric gradients over any short baseline distance and thus compensates for the lack of ionospheric observability caused by a sparse distribution of GPS reference stations. It visualizes the equatorial anomaly event in both the time domain and spatial domain by utilizing all available sources including regional ionospheric delay maps, IPP tracks, the motion of EPBs, the location of stations, and the occurrence time of large gradients. Using this procedure, we verified an extreme ionospheric gradient of 501.2 mm/km observed at reference stations SAVO and SSA1 viewing PRN 21 on 31 December 2013. Simultaneous ionospheric observation data from another satellite passing across the same EPB region was as high as about 360 mm/km. Six station-satellite pairs exhibited similar trend of ionospheric delays and observed severe ionospheric gradients above 300 mm/km using the time-step based techniques. Threat event visualization supported the fact that satellite-station pairs spread over several hundreds of kilometers in east-west direction were impacted by the same EPB moving eastward. These factors give us complete support to confirm that the extreme ionospheric gradient observed here is caused by a real ionospheric anomaly and not due to measurement errors or other faults. In addition to the particular case presented in this paper, we have also completed verification of other extreme EPB events whose gradients were larger than 500 mm/km. However, the full description of other events is beyond the scope of the paper.},
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Ionospheric activity in equatorial regions is known to be significantly more variable and intense than in mid-latitude regions. Prior to the initiation of Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) service in the Brazilian region, it is necessary to make provisions for being sufficiently robust to all possible ionospheric anomalies through development of an ionospheric anomaly threat model. In the Brazilian region, ionospheric spatial gradients larger than the upper bounds of the Conterminous U.S (CONUS) threat model developed for the mid-latitude region are frequently observed in the presence of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs). The higher bounds in the resulting ionospheric threat model have a significant effect on performance, availability, and the eventual approval of the system. Thus, verification of observed ionospheric spatial gradients is important since observations verified to be due to EPBs will be used to determine the upper bound of the ionospheric anomaly threat model for GBAS in Brazil. This paper applies a two-phase procedure of validating extremely large ionospheric gradients caused by low-latitude ionospheric anomaly events in the Brazilian region. This multi-dimensional approach rules out the possibility of receiver-instigated events, single satellite faults, and post-processing errors creating an apparent gradient that is nonexistent. However, the relatively smaller scale of EPBs and the sparse distribution of the Brazilian network stations makes it difficult to use the existing validation methods developed for mid-latitudes. Thus, this paper also proposes a new verification methodology based on the time-step method in order to augment the two-phase validation procedure. This methodology utilizes multiple satellites and stations that exhibit a similar trend of ionospheric delay to that of the threat candidate. The time-step method enables us to estimate ionospheric gradients over any short baseline distance and thus compensates for the lack of ionospheric observability caused by a sparse distribution of GPS reference stations. It visualizes the equatorial anomaly event in both the time domain and spatial domain by utilizing all available sources including regional ionospheric delay maps, IPP tracks, the motion of EPBs, the location of stations, and the occurrence time of large gradients. Using this procedure, we verified an extreme ionospheric gradient of 501.2 mm/km observed at reference stations SAVO and SSA1 viewing PRN 21 on 31 December 2013. Simultaneous ionospheric observation data from another satellite passing across the same EPB region was as high as about 360 mm/km. Six station-satellite pairs exhibited similar trend of ionospheric delays and observed severe ionospheric gradients above 300 mm/km using the time-step based techniques. Threat event visualization supported the fact that satellite-station pairs spread over several hundreds of kilometers in east-west direction were impacted by the same EPB moving eastward. These factors give us complete support to confirm that the extreme ionospheric gradient observed here is caused by a real ionospheric anomaly and not due to measurement errors or other faults. In addition to the particular case presented in this paper, we have also completed verification of other extreme EPB events whose gradients were larger than 500 mm/km. However, the full description of other events is beyond the scope of the paper.
Kim, Minchan, Lee, Dong-Kyeong, Bang, Eugene, Lee, Jiyun
Conceptual Study of Mobile Differential GNSS Architecture Utilizing UAV Networks Conference
Proceedings of the ION 2015 Pacific PNT Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2015.
@conference{Kim2015b,
title = {Conceptual Study of Mobile Differential GNSS Architecture Utilizing UAV Networks},
author = {Minchan Kim and Dong-Kyeong Lee and Eugene Bang and Jiyun Lee},
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-04-20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ION 2015 Pacific PNT Meeting},
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abstract = {Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems (DGNSS) which feature rapid deployment and mobility can provide required navigation accuracy and integrity to a wide range of users at arbitrary locations where no permanently installed systems exist. This paper proposes a concept of mobile DGNSS whose reference stations are composed of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to facilitate mobility of system. Key algorithms of Mobile DGNSS architecture, developed in this work, include a decision making technical for selecting reference station location, a fast location surveying method and integrity monitors. Using the decision making technical, landing positions of UAV reference stations are selected by taking into account the geographical characteristics of the landing vicinity, and the distances from DGNSS service demands. To validate that the locations satisfy the minimum siting requirements upon landing, two tests are carried out: territorial inclination test for assuring a sufficient number of satellites in view and satellite visibility test for avoiding a harsh environment with obstacles. The fast location surveying method is developed to reduce the time taken for the determination of the surveyed positions within specific positional accuracy. The simulation results show that the proposed method enables users to achieve the desired positional accuracy in less amount of time than the general method of simply averaging stand-alone GNSS solutions only. Integrity monitors in addition to the well-established Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) monitors are developed to detect faults specific to the mobile DGNSS. The code multipath monitor and the station displacement monitor are designed to detect large multipath errors on code measurements and unexpected movements of the reference stations, respectively under uncontrolled siting conditions. Rapid start-up time is a critical factor to assess whether the proposed concept is feasible. We derive surveying position error budgets for different multipath environments and system architectures. A new Vertical Protection Level (VPL), which includes the bound of surveying errors, is defined for the mobile DGNSS users. The effect of the resulting surveying errors on the system is evaluated by estimating deployment time for various conditions.},
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Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems (DGNSS) which feature rapid deployment and mobility can provide required navigation accuracy and integrity to a wide range of users at arbitrary locations where no permanently installed systems exist. This paper proposes a concept of mobile DGNSS whose reference stations are composed of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to facilitate mobility of system. Key algorithms of Mobile DGNSS architecture, developed in this work, include a decision making technical for selecting reference station location, a fast location surveying method and integrity monitors. Using the decision making technical, landing positions of UAV reference stations are selected by taking into account the geographical characteristics of the landing vicinity, and the distances from DGNSS service demands. To validate that the locations satisfy the minimum siting requirements upon landing, two tests are carried out: territorial inclination test for assuring a sufficient number of satellites in view and satellite visibility test for avoiding a harsh environment with obstacles. The fast location surveying method is developed to reduce the time taken for the determination of the surveyed positions within specific positional accuracy. The simulation results show that the proposed method enables users to achieve the desired positional accuracy in less amount of time than the general method of simply averaging stand-alone GNSS solutions only. Integrity monitors in addition to the well-established Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) monitors are developed to detect faults specific to the mobile DGNSS. The code multipath monitor and the station displacement monitor are designed to detect large multipath errors on code measurements and unexpected movements of the reference stations, respectively under uncontrolled siting conditions. Rapid start-up time is a critical factor to assess whether the proposed concept is feasible. We derive surveying position error budgets for different multipath environments and system architectures. A new Vertical Protection Level (VPL), which includes the bound of surveying errors, is defined for the mobile DGNSS users. The effect of the resulting surveying errors on the system is evaluated by estimating deployment time for various conditions.
2014
Kim, Dongwoo, Yoon, Moonseok, Choi, Pilhoon, Lee, Jiyun
AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, 2014.
@conference{Kim2014c,
title = {Observing Large Ionospheric Spatial Decorrelation for Ground-Based Augmentation System in the Brazilian Region},
author = {Dongwoo Kim and Moonseok Yoon and Pilhoon Choi and Jiyun Lee},
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abstract = {Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) support aircraft precision approach and landing by broadcasting differential Global Positioning System (GPS) corrections and integrity information to aviation users. Under anomalous ionospheric condition, unacceptably large residual errors can occur due to anomalously large ionospheric spatial decorrelation, and this can pose integrity threats to GBAS users. Thus, the development of an ionospheric anomaly threat model is required to simulate worst-case ionospheric errors and develop mitigation strategies. Ionosphere in low latitudes is known to be much more intense than that in mid latitudes due to active geomagnetic effect, and investigation of low latitude ionospheric anomalies must take precedence before operation of GBAS. In this paper, ionospheric spatial decorrelation is investigated for GBAS operation in the Brazilian region. Dual-frequency observation data are collected from Brazilian GPS reference stations. This analysis is performed using data sets collected on scintillating days, less-scintillating days, and storm days from 2012 to 2014. Precise ionospheric spatial gradient on the L1 signal is automatically estimated from dual-frequency observation data using simple truth method and station pair method. In the Brazilian region, however, intense ionospheric scintillations cause a large numbers of cycle slips in carrier-phase data. The simple truth process removes a considerably large number of those data through short-arc and outlier removals, and thus potential ionospheric gradients may not be detected. This motivates a data recovery process which skips short-arc and outlier removals if there appears a large ionospheric spatial gradient in the removed data. We also use a series of methods to validate anomalous ionospheric spatial gradients using manual validation with L1 single frequency measurement, station-wide check, satellite-wide check, and time-step check. In particular, the time-step check validates localized ionospheric anomalies in a scale of several tens of kilometers. This method is useful when the anomalies are not validated by station-wide and satellite-wide checks due to the sparse distribution of Brazilian GPS reference stations. Using the above methods, we observe and validate large ionospheric spatial gradients.},
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Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) support aircraft precision approach and landing by broadcasting differential Global Positioning System (GPS) corrections and integrity information to aviation users. Under anomalous ionospheric condition, unacceptably large residual errors can occur due to anomalously large ionospheric spatial decorrelation, and this can pose integrity threats to GBAS users. Thus, the development of an ionospheric anomaly threat model is required to simulate worst-case ionospheric errors and develop mitigation strategies. Ionosphere in low latitudes is known to be much more intense than that in mid latitudes due to active geomagnetic effect, and investigation of low latitude ionospheric anomalies must take precedence before operation of GBAS. In this paper, ionospheric spatial decorrelation is investigated for GBAS operation in the Brazilian region. Dual-frequency observation data are collected from Brazilian GPS reference stations. This analysis is performed using data sets collected on scintillating days, less-scintillating days, and storm days from 2012 to 2014. Precise ionospheric spatial gradient on the L1 signal is automatically estimated from dual-frequency observation data using simple truth method and station pair method. In the Brazilian region, however, intense ionospheric scintillations cause a large numbers of cycle slips in carrier-phase data. The simple truth process removes a considerably large number of those data through short-arc and outlier removals, and thus potential ionospheric gradients may not be detected. This motivates a data recovery process which skips short-arc and outlier removals if there appears a large ionospheric spatial gradient in the removed data. We also use a series of methods to validate anomalous ionospheric spatial gradients using manual validation with L1 single frequency measurement, station-wide check, satellite-wide check, and time-step check. In particular, the time-step check validates localized ionospheric anomalies in a scale of several tens of kilometers. This method is useful when the anomalies are not validated by station-wide and satellite-wide checks due to the sparse distribution of Brazilian GPS reference stations. Using the above methods, we observe and validate large ionospheric spatial gradients.
Lee, Jinsil, Yoon, Moonseok, Lee, Jiyun
Space Weather Prediction Error Bounding for Real-Time Ionospheric Threat Adaptation of GNSS Augmentation Systems Conference
AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, 2014.
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Yoon, Moonseok, Kim, Dongwoo, Yang, Yu-ming, Komjathy, Attila, Lee, Jiyun
Ionospheric Signatures of North Korean Nuclear Test on 12 February 2013 Conference
AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, CA, 2014.
@conference{Yoon2014c,
title = {Ionospheric Signatures of North Korean Nuclear Test on 12 February 2013},
author = {Moonseok Yoon and Dongwoo Kim and Yu-ming Yang and Attila Komjathy and Jiyun Lee},
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abstract = {Previous studies on interactions between the atmospheric waves and ionospheric perturbations concluded that the acoustic-gravity waves triggered by solid earth events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and underground nuclear tests may be used in detecting the ionospheric perturbations. Ionospheric perturbations have been observed using sounding radars and GPS remote sensing techniques since 1970s. As primary examples, ionospheric disturbances associated with 2006 and 2009 North Korean underground nuclear tests were observed using GPS measurements. In this work, we processed GNSS stations in South Korea and Japan and analyzed traveling ionospheric disturbances that were coincident with the 2013 North Korean underground test. North Korea conducted the third underground nuclear test at 2:57 UTC on February 12, 2013. The magnitude of earthquake generated by this event was registered to be an Mw 5.1 event. After analyzing GPS measurements from nearby stations, strong ionospheric perturbations were observed 15-30 minutes after the reported event, and the disturbances were shown to have primarily two different wave trains. The maximum VTEC perturbations turned out to be between 0.4 to 0.7 TECU. Five stations located in the northwest-to-southeast direction were also scrutinized for the propagation direction and amplitude variation related to ionospheric wave structures. The results clearly showed that the maximum amplitude of the waves may be higher as the stations are closer to the epicenter indicating that the waveforms may propagate away from the epicenter. In this research, we will analyze the characteristics of the detected ionospheric perturbations associated with the underground nuclear test. These findings are expected to verify our modeling results. We hope to get a better understanding of the influence of man-made hazards on the temporal and spatial variability of the global ionosphere.},
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Previous studies on interactions between the atmospheric waves and ionospheric perturbations concluded that the acoustic-gravity waves triggered by solid earth events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and underground nuclear tests may be used in detecting the ionospheric perturbations. Ionospheric perturbations have been observed using sounding radars and GPS remote sensing techniques since 1970s. As primary examples, ionospheric disturbances associated with 2006 and 2009 North Korean underground nuclear tests were observed using GPS measurements. In this work, we processed GNSS stations in South Korea and Japan and analyzed traveling ionospheric disturbances that were coincident with the 2013 North Korean underground test. North Korea conducted the third underground nuclear test at 2:57 UTC on February 12, 2013. The magnitude of earthquake generated by this event was registered to be an Mw 5.1 event. After analyzing GPS measurements from nearby stations, strong ionospheric perturbations were observed 15-30 minutes after the reported event, and the disturbances were shown to have primarily two different wave trains. The maximum VTEC perturbations turned out to be between 0.4 to 0.7 TECU. Five stations located in the northwest-to-southeast direction were also scrutinized for the propagation direction and amplitude variation related to ionospheric wave structures. The results clearly showed that the maximum amplitude of the waves may be higher as the stations are closer to the epicenter indicating that the waveforms may propagate away from the epicenter. In this research, we will analyze the characteristics of the detected ionospheric perturbations associated with the underground nuclear test. These findings are expected to verify our modeling results. We hope to get a better understanding of the influence of man-made hazards on the temporal and spatial variability of the global ionosphere.
Yoon, Moonseok, Bang, Eugene, Lee, Jiyun
The Use of SBAS GIVE for Improving CAT-I GBAS Availability in the Korean Region Conference
ISGNSS 2014, Jeju, Korea, 2014.
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title = {The Use of SBAS GIVE for Improving CAT-I GBAS Availability in the Korean Region},
author = {Moonseok Yoon and Eugene Bang and Jiyun Lee},
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Bang, Eugene, Lee, Jinsil, Lee, Jiyun
Ionospheric Delay Estimation using Kriging for Korean SBAS Conference
ISGNSS 2014, Jeju, Korea, 2014.
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title = {Ionospheric Delay Estimation using Kriging for Korean SBAS},
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Lee, Dong-Kyeong, Kim, Minchan, Kim, Kiwan, Lee, Jiyun
Fast location survey of DGNSS reference station to support UAV navigation Conference
2014 14th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2014), Seoul, South Korea, 2014.
@conference{Lee2014c,
title = {Fast location survey of DGNSS reference station to support UAV navigation},
author = {Dong-Kyeong Lee and Minchan Kim and Kiwan Kim and Jiyun Lee},
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year = {2014},
date = {2014-10-22},
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abstract = {Mobile Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems (Mobile DGNSS) formed with multiple UAVs can support missions on a battlefield by providing navigation with high accuracy and integrity. For time efficiency and maneuverability of the system, the reference stations that are deployed and sited on the battlefield should be able to determine their precise position rapidly before generating the differential corrections. This paper presents a methodology for fast location surveying of the reference stations, which improves the GNSS-based position estimates of reference stations using precise measurements of relative distances between the stations. Simulation results showed that the proposed method enables users to achieve the desired accuracy in less time than the simple method which averages stand-alone GNSS solutions only. A theoretical model of DGNSS position uncertainty induced by inaccurate surveyed locations of the reference stations was also defined in this paper. The model was validated by comparing it to the results from experiments conducted with a DGNSS test-bed equipped with three GNSS receivers and a pseudo-user.
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Mobile Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems (Mobile DGNSS) formed with multiple UAVs can support missions on a battlefield by providing navigation with high accuracy and integrity. For time efficiency and maneuverability of the system, the reference stations that are deployed and sited on the battlefield should be able to determine their precise position rapidly before generating the differential corrections. This paper presents a methodology for fast location surveying of the reference stations, which improves the GNSS-based position estimates of reference stations using precise measurements of relative distances between the stations. Simulation results showed that the proposed method enables users to achieve the desired accuracy in less time than the simple method which averages stand-alone GNSS solutions only. A theoretical model of DGNSS position uncertainty induced by inaccurate surveyed locations of the reference stations was also defined in this paper. The model was validated by comparing it to the results from experiments conducted with a DGNSS test-bed equipped with three GNSS receivers and a pseudo-user.
Kim, Minchan, Kim, Kiwan, Lee, Jiyun, Pullen, Sam
High Integrity GNSS Navigation and Safe Separation Distance to Support Local-Area UAV Networks Conference
Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2014), Tampa, Florida, 2014.
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title = {High Integrity GNSS Navigation and Safe Separation Distance to Support Local-Area UAV Networks},
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abstract = {A local-area Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) network can provide local-area differential corrections and optimized guidance, including the maintenance of safe separation distances, for precise and safe operation of the UAVs. In networked UAV operations, only the uncorrelated component of position error between two UAVs in the same network contributes to potential separation violations, because “in-network” UAVs share the same source of guidance and differential corrections. Therefore, models of uncorrelated errors need to be defined to establish safe separation distances between UAVs. This paper develops a methodology to estimate safe separation distance for UAVs which share the same source of guidance and local-area differential corrections. Using this methodology, ionospheric and tropospheric models for Navigation System Error (NSE) are developed theoretically. The airborne multipath error and Flight Technical Error (FTE) components which depend on hardware, environment, and operational conditions are also determined though UAV flight experiments. The standard deviation of FTE was estimated in both straight and curved flight segments. The results show that a lateral FTE error of 0.78 meters in curved segments is much greater than lateral FTE in straight segments and vertical FTE in both segments (all about 0.4 meters). This is due to the momentum of the UAV when it is taking turns and the limited controller response time of the UAV. The flight experiments also show that UAV multipath errors are reasonably well-bounded by the standard airborne multipath model developed for the Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS). From the estimated error models, simulations of safe separation distances were conducted under the “in-network” UAVs scenario. Simulation results for a 24-satellite GPS constellation and the probabilities of safe separation suggested in prior work show that vertical separations between UAVs in the same network vary from about 3.0 – 6.5 meters, while horizontal separations vary between 2.2 and 3.5 meters. These values change with time according to the visible GPS satellite geometry and are known to the controller in real time.},
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A local-area Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) network can provide local-area differential corrections and optimized guidance, including the maintenance of safe separation distances, for precise and safe operation of the UAVs. In networked UAV operations, only the uncorrelated component of position error between two UAVs in the same network contributes to potential separation violations, because “in-network” UAVs share the same source of guidance and differential corrections. Therefore, models of uncorrelated errors need to be defined to establish safe separation distances between UAVs. This paper develops a methodology to estimate safe separation distance for UAVs which share the same source of guidance and local-area differential corrections. Using this methodology, ionospheric and tropospheric models for Navigation System Error (NSE) are developed theoretically. The airborne multipath error and Flight Technical Error (FTE) components which depend on hardware, environment, and operational conditions are also determined though UAV flight experiments. The standard deviation of FTE was estimated in both straight and curved flight segments. The results show that a lateral FTE error of 0.78 meters in curved segments is much greater than lateral FTE in straight segments and vertical FTE in both segments (all about 0.4 meters). This is due to the momentum of the UAV when it is taking turns and the limited controller response time of the UAV. The flight experiments also show that UAV multipath errors are reasonably well-bounded by the standard airborne multipath model developed for the Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS). From the estimated error models, simulations of safe separation distances were conducted under the “in-network” UAVs scenario. Simulation results for a 24-satellite GPS constellation and the probabilities of safe separation suggested in prior work show that vertical separations between UAVs in the same network vary from about 3.0 – 6.5 meters, while horizontal separations vary between 2.2 and 3.5 meters. These values change with time according to the visible GPS satellite geometry and are known to the controller in real time.
Lee, Jinsil, Kim, Dongwoo, Lee, Jiyun, Walter, Todd
VPL Parameter Determination for Improved Performance of Advanced RAIM Conference
Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2014), Tampa, Florida, 2014.
@conference{Lee2014b,
title = {VPL Parameter Determination for Improved Performance of Advanced RAIM},
author = {Jinsil Lee and Dongwoo Kim and Jiyun Lee and Todd Walter},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=12486},
year = {2014},
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pages = {3566 - 3574},
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abstract = {Advanced Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (ARAIM) helps ensure the integrity of vertical guidance using multi-constellations and new civil signals [1]. Among Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) error sources, signal-in-space (SIS) range error, which includes satellite ephemeris and clock errors, is most significant because combinations of signals on multiple frequencies are used to remove ionospheric errors, which are dominant in single-frequency operations. In order to ensure the integrity of ARAIM, an integrity parameter ? is proposed to be broadcast by air navigation service providers. This ? parameter is an inflation factor applied to broadcast URAs to ensure that SIS range errors are bounded to the required level of integrity. Based on a comprehensive analysis of SIS error characteristics, this paper determines the ? parameter for subgroups of satellites that have similar error behavior and for individual satellites to lower the conservatism of the computed protection levels. Three different grouping scenarios (a single value of ? for all satellites, one value of ? for each satellite block type, and one value of ? for each satellite) were used to determine ?. The performance for each scenario was evaluated by performing ARAIM availability simulations. The simulation results demonstrated the performance improvements from grouping satellites into block types compared to the case of using a single value of ? for all satellites. In particular, applying one value of ? for each satellite gave significantly higher availability than other scenarios. This benefit gets more evident when the Gaussian tail behaviors of SIS error distributions differ across satellites.},
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Advanced Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (ARAIM) helps ensure the integrity of vertical guidance using multi-constellations and new civil signals [1]. Among Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) error sources, signal-in-space (SIS) range error, which includes satellite ephemeris and clock errors, is most significant because combinations of signals on multiple frequencies are used to remove ionospheric errors, which are dominant in single-frequency operations. In order to ensure the integrity of ARAIM, an integrity parameter ? is proposed to be broadcast by air navigation service providers. This ? parameter is an inflation factor applied to broadcast URAs to ensure that SIS range errors are bounded to the required level of integrity. Based on a comprehensive analysis of SIS error characteristics, this paper determines the ? parameter for subgroups of satellites that have similar error behavior and for individual satellites to lower the conservatism of the computed protection levels. Three different grouping scenarios (a single value of ? for all satellites, one value of ? for each satellite block type, and one value of ? for each satellite) were used to determine ?. The performance for each scenario was evaluated by performing ARAIM availability simulations. The simulation results demonstrated the performance improvements from grouping satellites into block types compared to the case of using a single value of ? for all satellites. In particular, applying one value of ? for each satellite gave significantly higher availability than other scenarios. This benefit gets more evident when the Gaussian tail behaviors of SIS error distributions differ across satellites.
Choi, Pilhoon, Lee, Jiyun
Selection of Korea SBAS Reference Stations By Analyzing GPS Satellite Clock and Ephemeris Error Bound Conference
2014 APNN & MAPWiST, Seoul, 2014.
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title = {Selection of Korea SBAS Reference Stations By Analyzing GPS Satellite Clock and Ephemeris Error Bound},
author = {Pilhoon Choi and Jiyun Lee},
year = {2014},
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Lee, Jinsil, Lee, Jiyun, Pullen, Sam, Datta-Barua, Seebany
Proceedings of the 2014 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, California, 2014.
@conference{Lee2014,
title = {Conceptual Study of Real-time Ionospheric Threat Adaptation Using Space Weather Forecasting for GNSS Augmentation Systems},
author = {Jinsil Lee and Jiyun Lee and Sam Pullen and Seebany Datta-Barua},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=11538},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-27},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation},
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abstract = {Current GNSS augmentation systems attempt to consider all possible ionospheric events in their computations of worst-case errors in user position solutions. The resulting error bounds are conservative because of this need to cover all possible anomalous conditions that might go undetected. This conservatism can be mitigated by subdividing anomalous conditions into several classes of severity and using different values of threat-model bounds for each class. This is possible if the level of ionospheric activity is classifiable and predictable (at least over periods of tens of minutes to hours) from measurable space weather conditions. This paper presents a new concept of real-time ionospheric threat adaptation that adjusts the ionospheric threat model in real time instead of always using the same ‘worst-case’ threat model. This is done by utilizing a relationship between ionospheric activity and space weather indices. The worst-case threat is defined as a function of the values of space weather indices. Predicted values of space weather indices are used for determining the corresponding threat model. Since space weather prediction itself is not reliable due to prediction errors, an uncertainty model is derived from 15 years of historical data, and the prediction errors are bounded to the required level of integrity of the system being supported. This concept was demonstrated by assessing the performance of real-time ionospheric threat adaptation when applied to the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) threat model used for Category I precision approach in the Conterminous United States (CONUS). The disturbance-storm time (Dst) index was selected as a measure of space weather intensity. The relationship between final Dst and the worst ionospheric gradients (or "slopes") identified in CONUS was defined. The ‘predicted Dst bound’ derived by taking into account prediction error statistics was then used to determine the worst slope bounds in real-time. As a result, the upper slope bound of the current threat model (425 mm/km for LAAS) could be lowered about 94% of the time during the 15 years of data (from 1995 to 2009) with an integrity of (1 - 10-7) using the bounded prediction value of Dst for real-time threat determination.},
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Current GNSS augmentation systems attempt to consider all possible ionospheric events in their computations of worst-case errors in user position solutions. The resulting error bounds are conservative because of this need to cover all possible anomalous conditions that might go undetected. This conservatism can be mitigated by subdividing anomalous conditions into several classes of severity and using different values of threat-model bounds for each class. This is possible if the level of ionospheric activity is classifiable and predictable (at least over periods of tens of minutes to hours) from measurable space weather conditions. This paper presents a new concept of real-time ionospheric threat adaptation that adjusts the ionospheric threat model in real time instead of always using the same ‘worst-case’ threat model. This is done by utilizing a relationship between ionospheric activity and space weather indices. The worst-case threat is defined as a function of the values of space weather indices. Predicted values of space weather indices are used for determining the corresponding threat model. Since space weather prediction itself is not reliable due to prediction errors, an uncertainty model is derived from 15 years of historical data, and the prediction errors are bounded to the required level of integrity of the system being supported. This concept was demonstrated by assessing the performance of real-time ionospheric threat adaptation when applied to the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) threat model used for Category I precision approach in the Conterminous United States (CONUS). The disturbance-storm time (Dst) index was selected as a measure of space weather intensity. The relationship between final Dst and the worst ionospheric gradients (or "slopes") identified in CONUS was defined. The ‘predicted Dst bound’ derived by taking into account prediction error statistics was then used to determine the worst slope bounds in real-time. As a result, the upper slope bound of the current threat model (425 mm/km for LAAS) could be lowered about 94% of the time during the 15 years of data (from 1995 to 2009) with an integrity of (1 - 10-7) using the bounded prediction value of Dst for real-time threat determination.
2013
Lee, Jinsil, Lee, Jiyun
AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, CA, 2013.
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title = {Analysis of Correlation between Ionospheric Spatial Gradients and Space Weather Intensity under Nominal Conditions for Ground-Based Augmentation Systems},
author = {Jinsil Lee and Jiyun Lee},
url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013AGUFMSM53D2245L},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-12-09},
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abstract = {Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) support aircraft precision approach and landing by providing differential GPS corrections to aviation users. For GBAS applications, most of ionospheric errors are removed by applying the differential corrections. However, ionospheric correction errors may exist due to ionosphere spatial decorrelation between GBAS ground facility and users. Thus, the standard deviation of ionosphere spatial decorrelation (σvig) is estimated and included in the computation of error bounds on user position solution. The σvig of 4mm/km, derived for the Conterminous United States (CONUS), bounds one-sigma ionospheric spatial gradients under nominal conditions (including active, but not stormy condition) with an adequate safety margin [1]. The conservatism residing in the current σvig by fixing it to a constant value for all non-stormy conditions could be mitigated by subdividing ionospheric conditions into several classes and using different σvig for each class. This new concept, real-time σvig adaptation, will be possible if the level of ionospheric activity can be well classified based on space weather intensity. This paper studies correlation between the statistics of nominal ionospheric spatial gradients and space weather indices. The analysis was carried out using two sets of data collected from Continuous Operating Reference Station (CORS) Network; 9 consecutive (nominal and ionospherically active) days in 2004 and 19 consecutive (relatively 'quiet') days in 2010. Precise ionospheric delay estimates are obtained using the simplified truth processing method and vertical ionospheric gradients are computed using the well-known 'station pair method' [2]. The remaining biases which include carrier-phase leveling errors and Inter-frequency Bias (IFB) calibration errors are reduced by applying linear slip detection thresholds. The σvig was inflated to overbound the distribution of vertical ionospheric gradients with the required confidence level. Using the daily maximum values of σvig, day-to-day variations of spatial gradients are compared to those of two space weather indices; Disturbance, Storm Time (Dst) index and Interplanetary Magnetic Field Bz (IMF Bz). The day-to-day variations of both space weather indices showed a good agreement with those of daily maximum σvig. The results demonstrate that ionospheric gradient statistics are highly correlated with space weather indices on nominal and off-nominal days. Further investigation on this relationship would facilitate prediction of upcoming ionospheric behavior based on space weather information and adjusting σvig in real time. Consequently it will improve GBAS availability by adding external information to operation. [1] Lee, J., S. Pullen, S. Datta-Barua, and P. Enge (2007), Assessment of ionosphere spatial decorrelation for GPS-based aircraft landing systems, J. Aircraft, 44(5), 1662-1669, doi:10.2514/1.28199. [2] Jung, S., and J. Lee (2012), Long-term ionospheric anomaly monitoring for ground based augmentation systems, Radio Sci., 47, RS4006, doi:10.1029/2012RS005016.},
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Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) support aircraft precision approach and landing by providing differential GPS corrections to aviation users. For GBAS applications, most of ionospheric errors are removed by applying the differential corrections. However, ionospheric correction errors may exist due to ionosphere spatial decorrelation between GBAS ground facility and users. Thus, the standard deviation of ionosphere spatial decorrelation (σvig) is estimated and included in the computation of error bounds on user position solution. The σvig of 4mm/km, derived for the Conterminous United States (CONUS), bounds one-sigma ionospheric spatial gradients under nominal conditions (including active, but not stormy condition) with an adequate safety margin [1]. The conservatism residing in the current σvig by fixing it to a constant value for all non-stormy conditions could be mitigated by subdividing ionospheric conditions into several classes and using different σvig for each class. This new concept, real-time σvig adaptation, will be possible if the level of ionospheric activity can be well classified based on space weather intensity. This paper studies correlation between the statistics of nominal ionospheric spatial gradients and space weather indices. The analysis was carried out using two sets of data collected from Continuous Operating Reference Station (CORS) Network; 9 consecutive (nominal and ionospherically active) days in 2004 and 19 consecutive (relatively 'quiet') days in 2010. Precise ionospheric delay estimates are obtained using the simplified truth processing method and vertical ionospheric gradients are computed using the well-known 'station pair method' [2]. The remaining biases which include carrier-phase leveling errors and Inter-frequency Bias (IFB) calibration errors are reduced by applying linear slip detection thresholds. The σvig was inflated to overbound the distribution of vertical ionospheric gradients with the required confidence level. Using the daily maximum values of σvig, day-to-day variations of spatial gradients are compared to those of two space weather indices; Disturbance, Storm Time (Dst) index and Interplanetary Magnetic Field Bz (IMF Bz). The day-to-day variations of both space weather indices showed a good agreement with those of daily maximum σvig. The results demonstrate that ionospheric gradient statistics are highly correlated with space weather indices on nominal and off-nominal days. Further investigation on this relationship would facilitate prediction of upcoming ionospheric behavior based on space weather information and adjusting σvig in real time. Consequently it will improve GBAS availability by adding external information to operation. [1] Lee, J., S. Pullen, S. Datta-Barua, and P. Enge (2007), Assessment of ionosphere spatial decorrelation for GPS-based aircraft landing systems, J. Aircraft, 44(5), 1662-1669, doi:10.2514/1.28199. [2] Jung, S., and J. Lee (2012), Long-term ionospheric anomaly monitoring for ground based augmentation systems, Radio Sci., 47, RS4006, doi:10.1029/2012RS005016.
Yang, Yu-ming, Komjathy, Attila, Butala, Mark D., Mannucci, Anthony J., Langley, Richard B., Snively, Jonathan, Hickey, Michael P., Galvan, David, Lee, Jiyun
Investigating Natural Hazards Using GNSS Measurements: The Chelyabinsk Meteor Ionospheric Impact Conference
Proceedings of the 26th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2013), Nashville, TN, 2013.
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abstract = {Introduction. Natural hazards, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, have been significant threats to humans throughout recorded history. The Global Positioning System satellites have become primary sensors to measure the effects of such natural hazards. Signatures in the GPS data include seismic deformation displacements, co-seismic vertical displacements, and real-time ocean buoy positioning estimates. Another way to use GPS observables is to measure and monitor ionospheric total electron content (TEC) variations generated by post-seismic atmospheric disturbances caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, meteors and nuclear explosions [e.g., Artru et al., 2005]. Prior JPL Work. Advances in very high precision ionospheric GPS data processing at JPL have demonstrated that ground-based GPS receivers are capable of detecting TEC perturbations generated by atmospheric acoustic and gravity waves [Komjathy et al., 2012]. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami data processing results have, for instance, demonstrated that the gravity-wave-derived TEC perturbations are visible 45 minutes after the earthquake [Galvan et al., 2012]. Applying JPL’s data processing techniques to multiple events, we have found that a 2004 volcanic eruption in Japan showed approximately 1-minute period waves in ionospheric TEC, whereas the September 2009 earthquake near Samoa produced signatures with an 8-minute period [Galvan et al., 2011]. There remains much to learn about the characteristics of these interactions between the Earth’s surface and ionosphere, including how and why they differ from one event to the next. Recent Natural Hazard Event of High Interest. The Chelyabinsk meteor provided a unique opportunity to observe TEC disturbances generated by a fireball in the atmosphere. The small asteroid entered the atmosphere at 3:20 UT on February 15, 2013 moving at a speed of about 20 km/s. The object, with an almost 20 meters in diameter, then burst into pieces at a height of 30-50 km above the ground. Large fragments moving at a high speed caused a powerful flash and a strong shockwave, with most of the meteor’s energy released at a height of 5 to 15 km above the earth. Technical Approach. We use JPL’s PyIono package (a bias-fixing algorithm) to generate high-precision calibrated TEC measurements. Calibrating TEC measurements serves multiple purposes for us including quality checking (QC) of processed data, leveling the phase measurements using pseudoranges and comparing modeled TEC perturbations with measured ones [Mannucci et al, 1998]. Obtaining absolute TEC values is useful to understand background conditions for the perturbations [e.g., Komjathy et al, 2005]. However, we are primarily interested in monitoring small-scale variations in ionospheric electron density, hence the changes in TEC are of interest, rather than absolute TEC values. Subsequently, JPL’s PyIono uses TEC observations to compute de-trended TEC data. A Butterworth band-pass filter (corresponding to waves with periods between 33 and 3.3 minutes ranging between 0.5 and 5 mHz) is applied to focus on acoustic and gravity wave generated TEC observations. This type of filtering allows us to more easily detect perturbations within an expected range of frequencies, which we can infer from previous observations of tsunami periods, for example [Galvan et al., 2012]. Summary and Anticipated Results. We have processed data from 23 GPS stations within a radius of 1500 km from the impact location in Russia for February 15 and the surrounding days. Initial results of monitoring TEC perturbations using the JPL technique suggest a strong impact of the individual explosions on the ionosphere. Furthermore, we observed a statistically significant correlation between the reported meteor trajectory and the ionospheric signatures measured by GPS. Preliminary modeling results of wave structures are presented and compared with the observed perturbations to investigate the possible generation and propagation of waves associated with this unique hazard event. Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank NASA Headquarters and the Earth Science and Interior NASA ROSES Grant (NNH07ZDA001N-ESI). This research was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. REFERENCES Artru, J., V. Ducic, H. Kanamori, P. Lognonné, and M. Murakami (2005), Ionospheric detection of gravity waves induced by tsunamis, Geophysical Journal International, 160, 840–848, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02552.x. Galvan, D. A., A. Komjathy, M. P. Hickey, P. Stephens, J. Snively, Y. Tony Song, M. D. Butala, and A. J. Mannucci (2012), Ionospheric Signatures of Tohoku-Oki Tsunami of March 11, 2011: Model Comparisons Near the Epicenter. Radio Science, 2012RS005023. Galvan, D. A., A. Komjathy, M. P. Hickey, and A. J. Mannucci (2011), The 2009 Samoa and 2010 Chile tsunamis as observed in the ionosphere using GPS total electron content, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 116, A06, 318, 10.1029/2010JA016204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JA016204 Komjathy, A., L. Sparks, B. D. Wilson, and A. J. Mannucci (2005), Automated daily processing of more than 1000 ground-based GPS receivers for studying intense ionospheric storms, Radio Sci., 40, RS6006, doi:10.1029/2005RS003279. Komjathy, A., D.A. Galvan, P. Stephens, M.D. Butala, V. Akopian, B.D. Wilson, O. Verkhoglyadova, A.J. Mannucci, and M. Hickey (2012). “Detecting Ionospheric TEC Perturbations Caused by Natural Hazards Using a Global Network of GPS Receivers: the Tohoku Case Study.” Earth Planets Space, Vol. 64, 1-8, 2012. Mannucci, A. J., B. D. Wilson, D. N. Yuan, C. H. Ho, U. J. Lindqwister, and T. F. Runge (1998), A global mapping technique for GPS-derived ionospheric total electron content measurements, Radio Science, 33, 565–582, 10.1029/97RS02707.},
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Introduction. Natural hazards, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, have been significant threats to humans throughout recorded history. The Global Positioning System satellites have become primary sensors to measure the effects of such natural hazards. Signatures in the GPS data include seismic deformation displacements, co-seismic vertical displacements, and real-time ocean buoy positioning estimates. Another way to use GPS observables is to measure and monitor ionospheric total electron content (TEC) variations generated by post-seismic atmospheric disturbances caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, meteors and nuclear explosions [e.g., Artru et al., 2005]. Prior JPL Work. Advances in very high precision ionospheric GPS data processing at JPL have demonstrated that ground-based GPS receivers are capable of detecting TEC perturbations generated by atmospheric acoustic and gravity waves [Komjathy et al., 2012]. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami data processing results have, for instance, demonstrated that the gravity-wave-derived TEC perturbations are visible 45 minutes after the earthquake [Galvan et al., 2012]. Applying JPL’s data processing techniques to multiple events, we have found that a 2004 volcanic eruption in Japan showed approximately 1-minute period waves in ionospheric TEC, whereas the September 2009 earthquake near Samoa produced signatures with an 8-minute period [Galvan et al., 2011]. There remains much to learn about the characteristics of these interactions between the Earth’s surface and ionosphere, including how and why they differ from one event to the next. Recent Natural Hazard Event of High Interest. The Chelyabinsk meteor provided a unique opportunity to observe TEC disturbances generated by a fireball in the atmosphere. The small asteroid entered the atmosphere at 3:20 UT on February 15, 2013 moving at a speed of about 20 km/s. The object, with an almost 20 meters in diameter, then burst into pieces at a height of 30-50 km above the ground. Large fragments moving at a high speed caused a powerful flash and a strong shockwave, with most of the meteor’s energy released at a height of 5 to 15 km above the earth. Technical Approach. We use JPL’s PyIono package (a bias-fixing algorithm) to generate high-precision calibrated TEC measurements. Calibrating TEC measurements serves multiple purposes for us including quality checking (QC) of processed data, leveling the phase measurements using pseudoranges and comparing modeled TEC perturbations with measured ones [Mannucci et al, 1998]. Obtaining absolute TEC values is useful to understand background conditions for the perturbations [e.g., Komjathy et al, 2005]. However, we are primarily interested in monitoring small-scale variations in ionospheric electron density, hence the changes in TEC are of interest, rather than absolute TEC values. Subsequently, JPL’s PyIono uses TEC observations to compute de-trended TEC data. A Butterworth band-pass filter (corresponding to waves with periods between 33 and 3.3 minutes ranging between 0.5 and 5 mHz) is applied to focus on acoustic and gravity wave generated TEC observations. This type of filtering allows us to more easily detect perturbations within an expected range of frequencies, which we can infer from previous observations of tsunami periods, for example [Galvan et al., 2012]. Summary and Anticipated Results. We have processed data from 23 GPS stations within a radius of 1500 km from the impact location in Russia for February 15 and the surrounding days. Initial results of monitoring TEC perturbations using the JPL technique suggest a strong impact of the individual explosions on the ionosphere. Furthermore, we observed a statistically significant correlation between the reported meteor trajectory and the ionospheric signatures measured by GPS. Preliminary modeling results of wave structures are presented and compared with the observed perturbations to investigate the possible generation and propagation of waves associated with this unique hazard event. Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank NASA Headquarters and the Earth Science and Interior NASA ROSES Grant (NNH07ZDA001N-ESI). This research was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. REFERENCES Artru, J., V. Ducic, H. Kanamori, P. Lognonné, and M. Murakami (2005), Ionospheric detection of gravity waves induced by tsunamis, Geophysical Journal International, 160, 840–848, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02552.x. Galvan, D. A., A. Komjathy, M. P. Hickey, P. Stephens, J. Snively, Y. Tony Song, M. D. Butala, and A. J. Mannucci (2012), Ionospheric Signatures of Tohoku-Oki Tsunami of March 11, 2011: Model Comparisons Near the Epicenter. Radio Science, 2012RS005023. Galvan, D. A., A. Komjathy, M. P. Hickey, and A. J. Mannucci (2011), The 2009 Samoa and 2010 Chile tsunamis as observed in the ionosphere using GPS total electron content, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 116, A06, 318, 10.1029/2010JA016204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JA016204 Komjathy, A., L. Sparks, B. D. Wilson, and A. J. Mannucci (2005), Automated daily processing of more than 1000 ground-based GPS receivers for studying intense ionospheric storms, Radio Sci., 40, RS6006, doi:10.1029/2005RS003279. Komjathy, A., D.A. Galvan, P. Stephens, M.D. Butala, V. Akopian, B.D. Wilson, O. Verkhoglyadova, A.J. Mannucci, and M. Hickey (2012). “Detecting Ionospheric TEC Perturbations Caused by Natural Hazards Using a Global Network of GPS Receivers: the Tohoku Case Study.” Earth Planets Space, Vol. 64, 1-8, 2012. Mannucci, A. J., B. D. Wilson, D. N. Yuan, C. H. Ho, U. J. Lindqwister, and T. F. Runge (1998), A global mapping technique for GPS-derived ionospheric total electron content measurements, Radio Science, 33, 565–582, 10.1029/97RS02707.
Yoon, Moonseok, Lee, Jiyun
Characteristics of Ionospheric Irregularities during Storm-Induced Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances over the Korean Region Conference
The 6th KAIST-Kyushu University joint workshop, Deajeon, Korea, 2013.
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Pullen, Sam, Lee, Jiyun
Proceedings of the ION 2013 Pacific PNT Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013.
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title = {Guidance, Navigation, and Separation Assurance for Local-Area UAV Networks: Putting the Pieces Together},
author = {Sam Pullen and Jiyun Lee},
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abstract = {This paper examines the guidance methodology needed to implement networks of autonomously-flown unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) controlled by centralized ground stations (GSs). The intended operations would take place within a local area with a diameter of less than 10 km for most applications but potentially as large as 50 - 100 km. UAVs in these networks are envisioned to be potentially quite small and inexpensive but capable of automated flight orientation and stability with guidance updates provided by the GS at 0.5 to 2 second intervals. The GS also provides GNSS differential corrections and integrity information to support sub-meter-level 95% navigation accuracy with 10-7 error bounds in the 3 - 10 meter range. Position and timing solutions for each UAV are relayed back to the GS and support both operational (route planning) and tactical (path updating) guidance. This guidance needs to insure safe separation between UAVs within the network and (depending on the airspace used) separation from "out-of-network" UAVs as well as manned aircraft. The proposed guidance approach centers around "zones of influence" surrounding each UAV that include allowances for navigation error, UAV guidance error, and ground-system guidance error. The amount of error allocated to each error source depends upon the degree of error correlation between each UAV and its neighbors as well as the required probabilities of safe separation that must be maintained. The ground system maintains and updates zones of influence for each UAV within its operational area and guides each UAV it controls to remain within a "zone of operations" to insure that all UAV movements it commands avoid collisions with other vehicles or the ground. This paper provides examples of how this is done and how adjustments are made to reflect changes in navigation performance and the influx of UAVs operating outside the network.},
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This paper examines the guidance methodology needed to implement networks of autonomously-flown unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) controlled by centralized ground stations (GSs). The intended operations would take place within a local area with a diameter of less than 10 km for most applications but potentially as large as 50 - 100 km. UAVs in these networks are envisioned to be potentially quite small and inexpensive but capable of automated flight orientation and stability with guidance updates provided by the GS at 0.5 to 2 second intervals. The GS also provides GNSS differential corrections and integrity information to support sub-meter-level 95% navigation accuracy with 10-7 error bounds in the 3 - 10 meter range. Position and timing solutions for each UAV are relayed back to the GS and support both operational (route planning) and tactical (path updating) guidance. This guidance needs to insure safe separation between UAVs within the network and (depending on the airspace used) separation from "out-of-network" UAVs as well as manned aircraft. The proposed guidance approach centers around "zones of influence" surrounding each UAV that include allowances for navigation error, UAV guidance error, and ground-system guidance error. The amount of error allocated to each error source depends upon the degree of error correlation between each UAV and its neighbors as well as the required probabilities of safe separation that must be maintained. The ground system maintains and updates zones of influence for each UAV within its operational area and guides each UAV it controls to remain within a "zone of operations" to insure that all UAV movements it commands avoid collisions with other vehicles or the ground. This paper provides examples of how this is done and how adjustments are made to reflect changes in navigation performance and the influx of UAVs operating outside the network.
Bang, Eugene, Lee, Jinsil, Lee, Jiyun, Seo, Jiwon, Walter, Todd
Constructing Ionospheric Irregularity Threat Model for Korean SBAS Conference
Proceedings of the ION 2013 Pacific PNT Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2013.
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title = {Constructing Ionospheric Irregularity Threat Model for Korean SBAS},
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abstract = {Single-frequency based Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS), the augmentation of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), broadcast estimates of vertical ionospheric delays and confidence bounds on the delay errors at Ionospheric Grid Points (IGPs). Using an ionospheric irregularity undersampled threat model, the integrity bounds, called Grid Ionospheric Vertical Errors (GIVEs), must be augmented to bound ionospheric irregularity threats which may exist between or beyond Ionospheric Pierce Points (IPPs) under ionospheric storm conditions. Since the ionospheric disturbed conditions can vary significantly from one region to another region, threat models need to be built for regions where SBAS will be operational. This paper presents a new method for constructing an undersampled threat model for SBAS in the Korean region, examines the influence of threat model to system availability, and demonstrates the performance of a newly developed threat model. The existing method tabulates undersampled threats in the threat model as a function of two metrics which measure the density and uniformity of IPP distribution in a region. Thus, the threat model metrics, which characterize threatening undersampled geometries including the density of IPP distribution accurately, play a critical role in improving system performance. The first threat metric, fit radius, is defined by an IPP search method used for a planar fit algorithm. This paper first determines a range of the fit radius optimized for the Korean region by considering the ionospheric observability and quality of the planar fit. Next this paper proposes a new second metric, the Relative Bin Number (RBN) metric, alternative to the Relative Centroid Metric (RCM) currently used in WAAS. RBN is more effective than the existing threat metric in capturing the sparseness of the IPP distribution by measuring the ratio of the number of partitions in which IPPs are absent to the total number of partitions. In addition, other essential parameters for the Korean SBAS threat model construction, including GEO MT28 (Message Type 28), IGP formations, and the number of reference stations, are determined. In a preliminary assessment, the undersampled ionospheric threat model based on the new methodology increased the coverage of 99.9% availability for APV-I service from 18.48% to 91.10%.},
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Single-frequency based Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS), the augmentation of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), broadcast estimates of vertical ionospheric delays and confidence bounds on the delay errors at Ionospheric Grid Points (IGPs). Using an ionospheric irregularity undersampled threat model, the integrity bounds, called Grid Ionospheric Vertical Errors (GIVEs), must be augmented to bound ionospheric irregularity threats which may exist between or beyond Ionospheric Pierce Points (IPPs) under ionospheric storm conditions. Since the ionospheric disturbed conditions can vary significantly from one region to another region, threat models need to be built for regions where SBAS will be operational. This paper presents a new method for constructing an undersampled threat model for SBAS in the Korean region, examines the influence of threat model to system availability, and demonstrates the performance of a newly developed threat model. The existing method tabulates undersampled threats in the threat model as a function of two metrics which measure the density and uniformity of IPP distribution in a region. Thus, the threat model metrics, which characterize threatening undersampled geometries including the density of IPP distribution accurately, play a critical role in improving system performance. The first threat metric, fit radius, is defined by an IPP search method used for a planar fit algorithm. This paper first determines a range of the fit radius optimized for the Korean region by considering the ionospheric observability and quality of the planar fit. Next this paper proposes a new second metric, the Relative Bin Number (RBN) metric, alternative to the Relative Centroid Metric (RCM) currently used in WAAS. RBN is more effective than the existing threat metric in capturing the sparseness of the IPP distribution by measuring the ratio of the number of partitions in which IPPs are absent to the total number of partitions. In addition, other essential parameters for the Korean SBAS threat model construction, including GEO MT28 (Message Type 28), IGP formations, and the number of reference stations, are determined. In a preliminary assessment, the undersampled ionospheric threat model based on the new methodology increased the coverage of 99.9% availability for APV-I service from 18.48% to 91.10%.
Bang, Eugene, Lee, Jinsil, Lee, Jiyun
Assessing the availability of a single-frequency satellite based augmentation system in the Korea region Conference
ENRI International Workshop on ATM/CNS, Tokyo, Japan, 2013.
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Pullen, Sam, Enge, Per, Lee, Jiyun
Proceedings of the 2013 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, California, 2013.
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abstract = {As the applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) expand, UAVs will be combined into networks that cooperate to perform various missions within 10 to 200 km of a centralized controller. GNSS is the primary source of navigation for UAVs operating over large areas, and UAVs combined into local networks can easily make use of local-area differential corrections integrated into their guidance commands to improve their navigation accuracy and integrity. This paper develops a Local-Area Differential GNSS (LADGNSS) architecture around a concept of local-area UAV network operations that emphasizes low cost for commercial applications and high integrity to allow UAVs to operate in close proximity to each other and potential "targets " while minimizing collision risk. Using the well-established Ground-based Augmentation System (GBAS) as a starting point, a simplified LADGNSS architecture is identified that retains most of the performance of GBAS at a far lower cost. Because LADGNSS performance will be limited by the characteristics of UAV receivers and flight dynamics, future work will be focused on identifying and understanding UAV receiver performance through a series of flight tests at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).},
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As the applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) expand, UAVs will be combined into networks that cooperate to perform various missions within 10 to 200 km of a centralized controller. GNSS is the primary source of navigation for UAVs operating over large areas, and UAVs combined into local networks can easily make use of local-area differential corrections integrated into their guidance commands to improve their navigation accuracy and integrity. This paper develops a Local-Area Differential GNSS (LADGNSS) architecture around a concept of local-area UAV network operations that emphasizes low cost for commercial applications and high integrity to allow UAVs to operate in close proximity to each other and potential "targets " while minimizing collision risk. Using the well-established Ground-based Augmentation System (GBAS) as a starting point, a simplified LADGNSS architecture is identified that retains most of the performance of GBAS at a far lower cost. Because LADGNSS performance will be limited by the characteristics of UAV receivers and flight dynamics, future work will be focused on identifying and understanding UAV receiver performance through a series of flight tests at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
Kim, Minchan, Lee, Jiyun, Pullen, Sam, Gillespie, Joseph
Proceedings of the 2013 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, California, 2013.
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title = {Optimized GNSS Network Station Selection to Support the Development of Ionospheric Threat Models for GBAS},
author = {Minchan Kim and Jiyun Lee and Sam Pullen and Joseph Gillespie},
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abstract = {Extremely large ionospheric spatial gradients present potential integrity threats to the users of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) augmentation systems. Thus, these ionospheric anomalies need to be monitored by ground reference stations and users must be alarmed within time-to-alerts. The long-term ionospheric anomaly monitoring (LTIAM) tool has been developed to monitor ionospheric behavior continuously over the life cycle of ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS) and to build ionosphere threat models for all regions where GBAS will be fielded in the future. However, the use of poor-quality GNSS data degrades the accuracy of ionospheric delay estimates, produces many faulty anomaly candidates and thus adds a great burden to LTIAM processing. This paper develops a methodology to select a set of welldistributed, high-quality stations from GNSS reference station networks. An optimized set of thresholds for data quality metrics, which maximize the elimination of spurious gradients while minimizing unnecessary station removals, are established by the high-quality station selection method. This method performs better that the previously developed method which determine thresholds independently for each quality metric without considering the interrelations between other quality metrics. The welldistributed sub-network selection method is also proposed to remove geographically redundant stations in dense regions. The number of CORS stations in the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS) is reduced to 46% of the total stations when a desired baseline constraint is 100 km. This paper also verifies the performance of the proposed method by processing data collected from other GNSS reference station networks.},
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Extremely large ionospheric spatial gradients present potential integrity threats to the users of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) augmentation systems. Thus, these ionospheric anomalies need to be monitored by ground reference stations and users must be alarmed within time-to-alerts. The long-term ionospheric anomaly monitoring (LTIAM) tool has been developed to monitor ionospheric behavior continuously over the life cycle of ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS) and to build ionosphere threat models for all regions where GBAS will be fielded in the future. However, the use of poor-quality GNSS data degrades the accuracy of ionospheric delay estimates, produces many faulty anomaly candidates and thus adds a great burden to LTIAM processing. This paper develops a methodology to select a set of welldistributed, high-quality stations from GNSS reference station networks. An optimized set of thresholds for data quality metrics, which maximize the elimination of spurious gradients while minimizing unnecessary station removals, are established by the high-quality station selection method. This method performs better that the previously developed method which determine thresholds independently for each quality metric without considering the interrelations between other quality metrics. The welldistributed sub-network selection method is also proposed to remove geographically redundant stations in dense regions. The number of CORS stations in the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS) is reduced to 46% of the total stations when a desired baseline constraint is 100 km. This paper also verifies the performance of the proposed method by processing data collected from other GNSS reference station networks.
2012
Choi, Yunjung, Kim, Minchan, Lee, Jiyun
Extreme Ionospheric Gradients Observed in South Korea during the Last Solar Cycle Conference
AGU Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
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booktitle = {AGU Fall Meeting 2012},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
abstract = {Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) support aircraft precision approach and landing by providing differential corrections for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) pseudorange measurements and integrity information to aviation users within several tens of kilometers of GBAS-equipped airports. During the peak of the last solar cycle, extreme ionospheric gradients as large as 412 mm/km at high elevation and 360 mm/km at low elevation were observed in the United States. For a GBAS user at a 200-foot decision height (DH) for Category I precision approach, a spatial gradient of 412 mm/km could cause a residual range error of 8 meters. To predict the maximum position errors that GBAS users might suffer from these ionospheric threats, an ionospheric anomaly "threat model" for GBAS was developed in the Conterminous U.S (CONUS). The threat model issued to simulate worst-case ionospheric errors and develop mitigation strategies under ionospheric disturbances. Ionospheric conditions should be investigated for all regions where GBAS will be fielded in the future. We presents a method to identify ionospheric anomalies that can pose a potential integrity risk to GBAS users and details the study of extreme ionospheric gradients observed in South Korea during the last solar cycle. GPS dual-frequency code and carrier-phase measurements collected from a total of 74 GPS reference stations in South Korea were processed to observe ionospheric anomalies. Precise ionospheric delay estimates are obtained using the simplified truth processing method and ionospheric gradients are computed using the well-known "station pair method". Ionospheric threats can be modeled as a spatially linear semi-infinite wedge moving with constant speed in mid-latitude regions. A total of 22 dates during the last solar maximum period in 2000 - 2004 were investigated to identify ionospheric anomalies occurred in South Korea. Ten of the dates were the days previously chosen to construct the current CONUS threat model. The other 12 dates are newly selected based on two space weather indices, planetary K (Kp) and disturbance, storm time (Dst). An ionospheric gradient of 90.97 mm/km was discovered at 0414UT on November 6, 2001 between stations NAWW and SONC, when PRN 21 was at 20.1° elevation. Most of severe gradients were observed from satellites at low elevation and traveling in a southerly direction of the Korean Peninsula. To locate enhanced-delay regions, we investigate both global ionospheric delay maps generated using the IONosphere MAP Exchange format (IONEX) data provided by International GNSS Service (IGS) and regional delay maps produced using the Korean GPS network stations. To validate observed ionospheric anomaly events, we examine whether similarly large ionospheric gradients are discovered at other nearby station pairs and other satellites whose Ionospheric Pierce Point (IPP) tracks take similar paths. The results from a series of checks support that the equatorial ionospheric anomaly caused severe ionospheric gradients observed from southern stations in South Korea. This study provides a better understanding of ionospheric behavior within the Korean Peninsula under ionospheric storm conditions, and helps investigate the operation and performance of GBAS. Ionospheric threat model developed in each region could be combined into a future global threat model for GBAS.},
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Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) support aircraft precision approach and landing by providing differential corrections for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) pseudorange measurements and integrity information to aviation users within several tens of kilometers of GBAS-equipped airports. During the peak of the last solar cycle, extreme ionospheric gradients as large as 412 mm/km at high elevation and 360 mm/km at low elevation were observed in the United States. For a GBAS user at a 200-foot decision height (DH) for Category I precision approach, a spatial gradient of 412 mm/km could cause a residual range error of 8 meters. To predict the maximum position errors that GBAS users might suffer from these ionospheric threats, an ionospheric anomaly "threat model" for GBAS was developed in the Conterminous U.S (CONUS). The threat model issued to simulate worst-case ionospheric errors and develop mitigation strategies under ionospheric disturbances. Ionospheric conditions should be investigated for all regions where GBAS will be fielded in the future. We presents a method to identify ionospheric anomalies that can pose a potential integrity risk to GBAS users and details the study of extreme ionospheric gradients observed in South Korea during the last solar cycle. GPS dual-frequency code and carrier-phase measurements collected from a total of 74 GPS reference stations in South Korea were processed to observe ionospheric anomalies. Precise ionospheric delay estimates are obtained using the simplified truth processing method and ionospheric gradients are computed using the well-known "station pair method". Ionospheric threats can be modeled as a spatially linear semi-infinite wedge moving with constant speed in mid-latitude regions. A total of 22 dates during the last solar maximum period in 2000 - 2004 were investigated to identify ionospheric anomalies occurred in South Korea. Ten of the dates were the days previously chosen to construct the current CONUS threat model. The other 12 dates are newly selected based on two space weather indices, planetary K (Kp) and disturbance, storm time (Dst). An ionospheric gradient of 90.97 mm/km was discovered at 0414UT on November 6, 2001 between stations NAWW and SONC, when PRN 21 was at 20.1° elevation. Most of severe gradients were observed from satellites at low elevation and traveling in a southerly direction of the Korean Peninsula. To locate enhanced-delay regions, we investigate both global ionospheric delay maps generated using the IONosphere MAP Exchange format (IONEX) data provided by International GNSS Service (IGS) and regional delay maps produced using the Korean GPS network stations. To validate observed ionospheric anomaly events, we examine whether similarly large ionospheric gradients are discovered at other nearby station pairs and other satellites whose Ionospheric Pierce Point (IPP) tracks take similar paths. The results from a series of checks support that the equatorial ionospheric anomaly caused severe ionospheric gradients observed from southern stations in South Korea. This study provides a better understanding of ionospheric behavior within the Korean Peninsula under ionospheric storm conditions, and helps investigate the operation and performance of GBAS. Ionospheric threat model developed in each region could be combined into a future global threat model for GBAS.
Jeong, Seongkyun, Lee, Sanguk, Lee, Jiyun
Algorithm Analysis for GNSS Spoofing Detection System Conference
2012 APISAT, Jeju, Korea, 2012.
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Jeong, Seongkyun, Kim, Taehee, Lee, Jae-Eun, Lee, Sanguk, Lee, Jiyun
Design analysis of precision Navigation System Conference
2012 12th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, JeJu Island, South Korea, 2012.
@conference{Jeong2012b,
title = {Design analysis of precision Navigation System},
author = {Seongkyun Jeong and Taehee Kim and Jae-Eun Lee and Sanguk Lee and Jiyun Lee},
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year = {2012},
date = {2012-10-17},
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abstract = {As GNSS(Global Navigation Satellite System) is becoming more common all over the world, the satellite navigation system is used in many fields such as positioning, navigation, timing, land survey, and so on. The satellite navigation covers all around world and can be used in everywhere if the satellite signal could be received. But the performance of positioning has the limitation due to the way of satellite navigation. The satellite navigation system has the error elements which are ionospheric delay, tropospheric delay, orbit ephemeris error, and other errors in calculation of positioning. These error elements degrade the positioning accuracy and the reliability of satellite navigation system. If these problems which make the usage of satellite navigation system be limited are resolved, the usage will be extended more than present. ETRI(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) is developing precision navigation system for sub-centimeter positioning. This system is for providing precision navigation service and securing the application technology in satellite navigation system. This technology has important point in future navigation market and application. In this paper, we introduce the precision navigation system and design process. The navigation algorithm to be applied in the system is analyzed.},
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As GNSS(Global Navigation Satellite System) is becoming more common all over the world, the satellite navigation system is used in many fields such as positioning, navigation, timing, land survey, and so on. The satellite navigation covers all around world and can be used in everywhere if the satellite signal could be received. But the performance of positioning has the limitation due to the way of satellite navigation. The satellite navigation system has the error elements which are ionospheric delay, tropospheric delay, orbit ephemeris error, and other errors in calculation of positioning. These error elements degrade the positioning accuracy and the reliability of satellite navigation system. If these problems which make the usage of satellite navigation system be limited are resolved, the usage will be extended more than present. ETRI(Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) is developing precision navigation system for sub-centimeter positioning. This system is for providing precision navigation service and securing the application technology in satellite navigation system. This technology has important point in future navigation market and application. In this paper, we introduce the precision navigation system and design process. The navigation algorithm to be applied in the system is analyzed.
Kim, Minchan, Lee, Jiyun, Pullen, Sam, Gillespie, Joseph
Data Quality Improvements and Applications of Long-Term Monitoring of Ionospheric Anomalies for GBAS Conference
Proceedings of the 25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2012), Nashville, TN, 2012.
@conference{Kim2012,
title = {Data Quality Improvements and Applications of Long-Term Monitoring of Ionospheric Anomalies for GBAS},
author = {Minchan Kim and Jiyun Lee and Sam Pullen and Joseph Gillespie},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=10410},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-09-17},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2012)},
pages = {2159 - 2174},
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abstract = {The Long-Term Ionospheric Anomaly Monitoring (LTIAM) tool is an automated software package designed to analyze past data and support continuous ionospheric monitoring of both nominal and anomalous ionospheric spatial gradients. While automated measurement screening is included, large gradients observed by LTIAM require manual validation to confirm that they were caused by the ionosphere instead of faulty measurements or data recording. Ground stations with poor data quality thus add greatly to the burden of LTIAM processing. This paper develops an automated approach to data quality measurement for CORS and IGS ground stations. This method is used to identify stations that are poor according to multiple quality metrics. Thresholds are established for each quality metric, and stations violating one or more thresholds are removed from use by LTIAM unless their geographical position is sufficiently important. Use of this method with CORS stations in the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS) eliminates the almost 90% of spurious or false gradients while only excluding 16% of the over 1500 CORS stations in CONUS. This paper also investigates past CONUS ionospheric storm data to understand the distribution of anomalous spatial gradients. Examining LTIAM outputs on known storm days with gradients between 50 and 200 mm/km demonstrates that these smaller (but still anomalous) gradients are far more likely than extreme gradients above 200 mm/km. The continued use of LTIAM over the next solar peak should help us refine our knowledge of this distribution as well as the overall likelihood of large spatial gradients under anomalous ionospheric conditions.},
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The Long-Term Ionospheric Anomaly Monitoring (LTIAM) tool is an automated software package designed to analyze past data and support continuous ionospheric monitoring of both nominal and anomalous ionospheric spatial gradients. While automated measurement screening is included, large gradients observed by LTIAM require manual validation to confirm that they were caused by the ionosphere instead of faulty measurements or data recording. Ground stations with poor data quality thus add greatly to the burden of LTIAM processing. This paper develops an automated approach to data quality measurement for CORS and IGS ground stations. This method is used to identify stations that are poor according to multiple quality metrics. Thresholds are established for each quality metric, and stations violating one or more thresholds are removed from use by LTIAM unless their geographical position is sufficiently important. Use of this method with CORS stations in the Conterminous U.S. (CONUS) eliminates the almost 90% of spurious or false gradients while only excluding 16% of the over 1500 CORS stations in CONUS. This paper also investigates past CONUS ionospheric storm data to understand the distribution of anomalous spatial gradients. Examining LTIAM outputs on known storm days with gradients between 50 and 200 mm/km demonstrates that these smaller (but still anomalous) gradients are far more likely than extreme gradients above 200 mm/km. The continued use of LTIAM over the next solar peak should help us refine our knowledge of this distribution as well as the overall likelihood of large spatial gradients under anomalous ionospheric conditions.
Choi, Yunjung, Kim, Minchan, Lee, Jiyun
Ionospheric Observations of the November 2004 Storm in South Korea Conference
The 5th KAIST-Kyushu University joint workshop, Deajeon, Korea, 2012.
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title = {Ionospheric Observations of the November 2004 Storm in South Korea},
author = {Yunjung Choi and Minchan Kim and Jiyun Lee},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-09-01},
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Bang, Eugene, Lee, Jiyun, Seo, Jiwon, Pullen, Sam, Close, Sigrid
Automated Ionospheric Front Velocity Estimation Algorithm for Ground-Based Augmentation Systems Conference
Proceedings of the 2012 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Newport Beach, CA, 2012.
@conference{Bang2012,
title = {Automated Ionospheric Front Velocity Estimation Algorithm for Ground-Based Augmentation Systems},
author = {Eugene Bang and Jiyun Lee and Jiwon Seo and Sam Pullen and Sigrid Close},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=10035},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-30},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation},
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abstract = {Ionospheric anomalies, which may occur during severe ionospheric storms, could pose integrity threats to Ground-based Augmentation System (GBAS) users [1], [2], [3]. The ionospheric threat for a Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS), a GBAS developed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), was modeled as a spatially linear, semi-infinite “front” (like a weather front) with constant propagation speed. The model is parameterized by the slope (or gradient) of the front, its width, and its ground speed. Along with the magnitude of ionospheric gradients, the speed of the fronts in which these gradients are embedded is an important parameter for GBAS integrity analysis. This paper proposes an automated velocity estimation algorithm for anomalous ionospheric fronts. To examine the performance of this automated algorithm, we obtained estimation results for the points of the current Conterminous U.S (CONUS) threat space and compared these estimates to those manually computed previously. This new algorithm proposed in this paper is shown to be robust to faulty measurement and modeling errors. In addition, this algorithm is used to populate the current threat space with newly-generated threat points obtained from the Long-Term Ionospheric Anomaly Monitoring tool [4]. A larger number of velocity estimates helps to better understand the motion of ionospheric fronts under geomagnetic storm conditions.},
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Ionospheric anomalies, which may occur during severe ionospheric storms, could pose integrity threats to Ground-based Augmentation System (GBAS) users [1], [2], [3]. The ionospheric threat for a Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS), a GBAS developed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), was modeled as a spatially linear, semi-infinite “front” (like a weather front) with constant propagation speed. The model is parameterized by the slope (or gradient) of the front, its width, and its ground speed. Along with the magnitude of ionospheric gradients, the speed of the fronts in which these gradients are embedded is an important parameter for GBAS integrity analysis. This paper proposes an automated velocity estimation algorithm for anomalous ionospheric fronts. To examine the performance of this automated algorithm, we obtained estimation results for the points of the current Conterminous U.S (CONUS) threat space and compared these estimates to those manually computed previously. This new algorithm proposed in this paper is shown to be robust to faulty measurement and modeling errors. In addition, this algorithm is used to populate the current threat space with newly-generated threat points obtained from the Long-Term Ionospheric Anomaly Monitoring tool [4]. A larger number of velocity estimates helps to better understand the motion of ionospheric fronts under geomagnetic storm conditions.
Lee, Jiyun, Jung, Sungwook, Kim, Minchan, Seo, Jiwon, Pullen, Sam, Close, Sigrid
Results from Automated Ionospheric Data Analysis for Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS) Conference
Proceedings of the 2012 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Newport Beach, CA, 2012.
@conference{Lee2012,
title = {Results from Automated Ionospheric Data Analysis for Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS)},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Sungwook Jung and Minchan Kim and Jiwon Seo and Sam Pullen and Sigrid Close},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=10029},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-30},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation},
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abstract = {Extremely large ionospheric spatial gradients could cause potential integrity threats to Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) users. The importance of understanding ionosphere behavior is not limited to cases of extreme ionospheric events. Broader knowledge of both nominal and anomalous ionospheric behavior would help improve the design and operation of GBAS. We developed an automated tool for long-term ionosphere monitoring to continuously monitor ionospheric behavior during the life cycle of GBAS. This paper presents the results obtained from processing ionospheric data using the automated tool. Pre-existing ionospheric storm data are processed to populate the current threat space with newly discovered ionospheric anomalies. Durations of ionospheric anomalies exceeding a threshold within a continuous arc are also investigated in this research. This tool also supplies broader statistical estimates of ionospheric behavior under all conditions. In this paper, we analyze day-to-day variations of typical ionospheric statistics observed from a dense GPS network. The results demonstrate that some correlation between the statistics and a geomagnetic index exists even on nominal days. The automated tool not only identifies gradients large enough to threaten GBAS users but also provides reliable ionospheric statistics.},
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Extremely large ionospheric spatial gradients could cause potential integrity threats to Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) users. The importance of understanding ionosphere behavior is not limited to cases of extreme ionospheric events. Broader knowledge of both nominal and anomalous ionospheric behavior would help improve the design and operation of GBAS. We developed an automated tool for long-term ionosphere monitoring to continuously monitor ionospheric behavior during the life cycle of GBAS. This paper presents the results obtained from processing ionospheric data using the automated tool. Pre-existing ionospheric storm data are processed to populate the current threat space with newly discovered ionospheric anomalies. Durations of ionospheric anomalies exceeding a threshold within a continuous arc are also investigated in this research. This tool also supplies broader statistical estimates of ionospheric behavior under all conditions. In this paper, we analyze day-to-day variations of typical ionospheric statistics observed from a dense GPS network. The results demonstrate that some correlation between the statistics and a geomagnetic index exists even on nominal days. The automated tool not only identifies gradients large enough to threaten GBAS users but also provides reliable ionospheric statistics.
2011
Lee, Jiyun, Bang, Eugene, Jung, Sungwook, Pullen, Sam
Automated Front Speed Computation of Ionospheric Anomalies for Ground-Based Augmentation Systems Conference
The 13th International Ionospheric Effects Symposium (IES2011), Alexandria, VA, 2011.
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title = {Automated Front Speed Computation of Ionospheric Anomalies for Ground-Based Augmentation Systems},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Eugene Bang and Sungwook Jung and Sam Pullen},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-05-17},
booktitle = {The 13th International Ionospheric Effects Symposium (IES2011)},
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Lee, Jiyun, Jung, Sungwook, Pullen, Sam
Enhancements of Long Term Ionospheric Anomaly Monitoring for the Ground-Based Augmentation System Conference
Proceedings of the 2011 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, 2011.
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title = {Enhancements of Long Term Ionospheric Anomaly Monitoring for the Ground-Based Augmentation System},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Sungwook Jung and Sam Pullen},
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year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-24},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation},
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abstract = {Extremely large ionospheric gradients can pose a potential integrity threat to the users of ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS). A better understanding of the ionospheric behavior (not limited to that during extreme ionospheric activity) is important in the design and operation of GBAS to meet its integrity and availability requirements. A tool for long-term ionosphere monitoring was developed to build an ionosphere threat model, evaluate its validity over the system operation, monitor ionospheric behavior continuously, and update it when necessary. This paper presents the enhanced algorithms of long-term ionospheric anomaly monitoring and evaluates its performance using data from a ionospheric storm day, 20 November 2003, and a nominal day, 9 November 2004. The automation of data processing enables us to more accurately categorize ionospheric behavior under both nominal and anomalous conditions. This paper also demonstrates that the automated procedure of enhanced long-term ionosphere monitoring not only identifies gradients large enough to threaten GBAS users but periodically generates reliable statistics of ionospheric gradients under all conditions.},
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Extremely large ionospheric gradients can pose a potential integrity threat to the users of ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS). A better understanding of the ionospheric behavior (not limited to that during extreme ionospheric activity) is important in the design and operation of GBAS to meet its integrity and availability requirements. A tool for long-term ionosphere monitoring was developed to build an ionosphere threat model, evaluate its validity over the system operation, monitor ionospheric behavior continuously, and update it when necessary. This paper presents the enhanced algorithms of long-term ionospheric anomaly monitoring and evaluates its performance using data from a ionospheric storm day, 20 November 2003, and a nominal day, 9 November 2004. The automation of data processing enables us to more accurately categorize ionospheric behavior under both nominal and anomalous conditions. This paper also demonstrates that the automated procedure of enhanced long-term ionosphere monitoring not only identifies gradients large enough to threaten GBAS users but periodically generates reliable statistics of ionospheric gradients under all conditions.
2010
Lee, Jiyun, Jung, Sungwook, Bang, Eugene
Estimation of GPS Receiver Inter-Frequency Bias for Operational Ionosphere Monitoring in GBAS Conference
ENRI International workshop on ATM/CNS, Tokyo, Japan, 2010.
@conference{Lee2010b,
title = {Estimation of GPS Receiver Inter-Frequency Bias for Operational Ionosphere Monitoring in GBAS},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Sungwook Jung and Eugene Bang},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-11-01},
booktitle = {ENRI International workshop on ATM/CNS},
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Lee, Jiyun, Jung, Sungwook, Bang, Eugene, Pullen, Sam, Enge, Per
Long Term Monitoring of Ionospheric Anomalies to Support the Local Area Augmentation System Conference
Proceedings of the 23rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2010), Portland, OR, 2010.
@conference{Lee2010,
title = {Long Term Monitoring of Ionospheric Anomalies to Support the Local Area Augmentation System},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Sungwook Jung and Eugene Bang and Sam Pullen and Per Enge},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=9372},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-09-21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2010)},
pages = {2651 - 2660},
address = {Portland, OR},
abstract = {Extremely large ionospheric gradients can pose a potential integrity threat to the users of Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS), and thus the development of an ionospheric anomaly threat model is essential for system design and operation. This paper presents a methodology for long-term ionosphere monitoring which will be used to build an ionosphere threat model, evaluate its validity over the life cycle of system, continuously monitor ionospheric anomalies, and update the threat model when necessary. The procedure automatically processes data collected from external sources and networks and estimates ionospheric gradients at regular intervals. If extremely large gradients hazardous to LAAS users are identified, manual validation is triggered. This paper also investigates a simplified truth processing method to create precise ionospheric delay estimates in near real-time, which is the core of long-term ionosphere monitoring. The performance of the method is examined using data from the 20 November 2003 storm and the 31 October 2003 storm. It demonstrates the effectiveness of simplified truth processing within long-term ionosphere monitoring. From the case studies, the automated procedure successfully identified the two worst ionospheric gradients observed and validated to date.},
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Extremely large ionospheric gradients can pose a potential integrity threat to the users of Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS), and thus the development of an ionospheric anomaly threat model is essential for system design and operation. This paper presents a methodology for long-term ionosphere monitoring which will be used to build an ionosphere threat model, evaluate its validity over the life cycle of system, continuously monitor ionospheric anomalies, and update the threat model when necessary. The procedure automatically processes data collected from external sources and networks and estimates ionospheric gradients at regular intervals. If extremely large gradients hazardous to LAAS users are identified, manual validation is triggered. This paper also investigates a simplified truth processing method to create precise ionospheric delay estimates in near real-time, which is the core of long-term ionosphere monitoring. The performance of the method is examined using data from the 20 November 2003 storm and the 31 October 2003 storm. It demonstrates the effectiveness of simplified truth processing within long-term ionosphere monitoring. From the case studies, the automated procedure successfully identified the two worst ionospheric gradients observed and validated to date.
2009
Gao, Grace Xingxin, Tang, Haochen, Blanch, Juan, Lee, Jiyun, Walter, Todd, Enge, Per
Methodology and Case Studies of Signal-in-Space Error Calculation Top-down Meets Bottom-up Conference
Proceedings of the 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2009), Savannah, GA, 2009.
@conference{Gao2009,
title = {Methodology and Case Studies of Signal-in-Space Error Calculation Top-down Meets Bottom-up},
author = {Grace Xingxin Gao and Haochen Tang and Juan Blanch and Jiyun Lee and Todd Walter and Per Enge},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=8697},
year = {2009},
date = {2009-09-22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2009)},
pages = {2824 - 2831},
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abstract = {Signal in space (SIS) errors are a major error source for the Global Positioning System (GPS). They are defined as any errors related to satellite transmission, mainly satellite position and clock errors. A better understanding and characterization of the signal in space errors are essential for GPS integrity, because the SIS errors are a metric to determine satellite outages or failures. The statistics of the SIS errors are an important factor to monitor the system performance in terms of integrity. We present two methods to calculate SIS errors. One is called top-down, which is based on high data rate dual frequency measurements obtained from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) or the National Satellite Test Bed (NSTB) networks. The SIS errors of a satellite are obtained by stripping off all non-SIS errors from the total pseudo-range error. We apply our algorithm to L1/L2 measurements now as an intermediate step to migrate to L1/L5 measurements when L5 signals are available in the future. The other way of characterizing SIS errors is the bottom-up method, which builds up the SIS errors by summing the satellite position errors and satellite clock errors, etc. The satellite position and clock errors are calculated by differentiating broadcast and precise ephemerides obtained from the International GNSS Service (IGS) network and the National Geospatial Intelligence (NGA) network, respectively. The top-down and bottom-up methods well complement each other. In the second part of the paper, we apply the top-down and bottom-up methods to two actual satellite outages from 2007. The results show that the two methods match well no matter whether a satellite is faulted or not. The discrepancies of the two methods are currently within +/- 4 meters and are independent of the carrier smoothing filter length.},
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Signal in space (SIS) errors are a major error source for the Global Positioning System (GPS). They are defined as any errors related to satellite transmission, mainly satellite position and clock errors. A better understanding and characterization of the signal in space errors are essential for GPS integrity, because the SIS errors are a metric to determine satellite outages or failures. The statistics of the SIS errors are an important factor to monitor the system performance in terms of integrity. We present two methods to calculate SIS errors. One is called top-down, which is based on high data rate dual frequency measurements obtained from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) or the National Satellite Test Bed (NSTB) networks. The SIS errors of a satellite are obtained by stripping off all non-SIS errors from the total pseudo-range error. We apply our algorithm to L1/L2 measurements now as an intermediate step to migrate to L1/L5 measurements when L5 signals are available in the future. The other way of characterizing SIS errors is the bottom-up method, which builds up the SIS errors by summing the satellite position errors and satellite clock errors, etc. The satellite position and clock errors are calculated by differentiating broadcast and precise ephemerides obtained from the International GNSS Service (IGS) network and the National Geospatial Intelligence (NGA) network, respectively. The top-down and bottom-up methods well complement each other. In the second part of the paper, we apply the top-down and bottom-up methods to two actual satellite outages from 2007. The results show that the two methods match well no matter whether a satellite is faulted or not. The discrepancies of the two methods are currently within +/- 4 meters and are independent of the carrier smoothing filter length.
2008
Ramakrishnan, Shankararaman, Lee, Jiyun, Pullen, Sam, Enge, Per
Proceedings of the 2008 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, 2008.
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title = {Targeted Ephemeris Decorrelation Parameter Inflation for Improved LAAS Availability During Severe Ionosphere Anomalies},
author = {Shankararaman Ramakrishnan and Jiyun Lee and Sam Pullen and Per Enge},
url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=7694},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-28},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation},
pages = {354 - 366},
address = {San Diego, CA},
abstract = {The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a ground-based differential GNSS system designed to provide precision approach for aircraft landing at a LAASequipped airport. While most anomalies affecting the system can be mitigated in the range domain, positiondomain geometry screening is essential to mitigate threats from anomalous ionosphere spatial gradients. These can potentially cause large range-domain errors before detection by the LAAS Ground Facility (LGF). Existing algorithms for position-domain screening inflate the sigma values (óvig and ópr_gnd) broadcast by the LAAS Ground Facility (LGF). This ensures that subset satellite geometries (i.e. subsets of a set of approved GPS satellites for which the LGF broadcasts valid corrections) for which unacceptable errors can result are made unavailable to the user. These unsafe subsets are found by comparing the resulting Maximum Ionosphere-Induced Error in Vertical (MIEV) with maximum “safe” navigation system error (NSE) values derived from Obstacle Clearance Surface (OCS) applicable to CAT I precision approaches. Recent analyses of past ionosphere spatial gradients observed over the Conterminous United States (CONUS) resulted in very high maximum gradients for both low and high-elevation satellites. The new ionosphere anomaly “threat model” for LAAS CAT I specifies a maximum spatial gradient of 375 mm/km for low-elevation satellites (below 15o) while high-elevation (above 65o) satellites can experience gradients as high as 425 mm/km. Uniform inflation of the broadcast sigmas for all approved satellites results in a significant drop in system availability under the new threat model. To minimize this decline, this paper proposes a new algorithm to implement position-domain screening by inflating satellite-specific, targeted ephemeris decorrelation parameters (called “P-values”) and ópr_gnd values. Availability is assessed for ten major airports in the USA. Under normal conditions, 100% availability is achieved for eight airports, while availability for the two remaining airports exceeds 99%. Targeted inflation consistently results in better system availability compared to strategies that inflate all satellites by the same amount, such as the óvig approach.},
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The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a ground-based differential GNSS system designed to provide precision approach for aircraft landing at a LAASequipped airport. While most anomalies affecting the system can be mitigated in the range domain, positiondomain geometry screening is essential to mitigate threats from anomalous ionosphere spatial gradients. These can potentially cause large range-domain errors before detection by the LAAS Ground Facility (LGF). Existing algorithms for position-domain screening inflate the sigma values (óvig and ópr_gnd) broadcast by the LAAS Ground Facility (LGF). This ensures that subset satellite geometries (i.e. subsets of a set of approved GPS satellites for which the LGF broadcasts valid corrections) for which unacceptable errors can result are made unavailable to the user. These unsafe subsets are found by comparing the resulting Maximum Ionosphere-Induced Error in Vertical (MIEV) with maximum “safe” navigation system error (NSE) values derived from Obstacle Clearance Surface (OCS) applicable to CAT I precision approaches. Recent analyses of past ionosphere spatial gradients observed over the Conterminous United States (CONUS) resulted in very high maximum gradients for both low and high-elevation satellites. The new ionosphere anomaly “threat model” for LAAS CAT I specifies a maximum spatial gradient of 375 mm/km for low-elevation satellites (below 15o) while high-elevation (above 65o) satellites can experience gradients as high as 425 mm/km. Uniform inflation of the broadcast sigmas for all approved satellites results in a significant drop in system availability under the new threat model. To minimize this decline, this paper proposes a new algorithm to implement position-domain screening by inflating satellite-specific, targeted ephemeris decorrelation parameters (called “P-values”) and ópr_gnd values. Availability is assessed for ten major airports in the USA. Under normal conditions, 100% availability is achieved for eight airports, while availability for the two remaining airports exceeds 99%. Targeted inflation consistently results in better system availability compared to strategies that inflate all satellites by the same amount, such as the óvig approach.
2007
Park, Young Shin, Zhang, Godwin, Pullen, Sam, Lee, Jiyun, Enge, Per
Data-Replay Analysis of LAAS Safety during Ionosphere Storms Conference
Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2007), Fort Worth, TX, 2007.
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title = {Data-Replay Analysis of LAAS Safety during Ionosphere Storms},
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year = {2007},
date = {2007-09-25},
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abstract = { As reported in [2,4,5], previous Stanford research has identified the potential for severe ionosphere spatial gradients to affect Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) integrity. In previous work [1], real-time position-domain geometry screening was used to maximize LAAS availability in the presence of ionosphere anomalies by broadcasting an inflated value of ó vig so that the maximum-ionosphere-induced-error-invertical (MIEV) for all viable airborne “subset” geometries (subsets of the set of satellites visible to and approved by the LGF) is below a pre-determined safe limit. The results of this work are based on the LAAS ionosphere spatial-gradient “threat model” established and validated with ionosphere storm data observed from WAAS and IGS since 2000 [2,4]. This previous approach leads to marginal availability of the required integrity (95 to 99 percent) and does not give the higher availability that is desired (99.9 percent or higher). In this paper, data from the Ohio cluster of CORS stations on November 20, 2003 and the North Carolina cluster of CORS stations on October 29, 2003 from [6] are used to perform “data-replay” analysis for several independent station pairs with separations from 23 to 75 km. These separations are significantly further than the effective LAAS user-to-LGF separation at the CAT I decision height. Comparisons of the result of data-replay analysis with the result of worst-case simulation in the manner of [1] are made. The conclusion derived from these comparisons is that CAT I ionosphere analysis performed by worst-case simulation is conservative but not unreasonable.},
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As reported in [2,4,5], previous Stanford research has identified the potential for severe ionosphere spatial gradients to affect Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) integrity. In previous work [1], real-time position-domain geometry screening was used to maximize LAAS availability in the presence of ionosphere anomalies by broadcasting an inflated value of ó vig so that the maximum-ionosphere-induced-error-invertical (MIEV) for all viable airborne “subset” geometries (subsets of the set of satellites visible to and approved by the LGF) is below a pre-determined safe limit. The results of this work are based on the LAAS ionosphere spatial-gradient “threat model” established and validated with ionosphere storm data observed from WAAS and IGS since 2000 [2,4]. This previous approach leads to marginal availability of the required integrity (95 to 99 percent) and does not give the higher availability that is desired (99.9 percent or higher). In this paper, data from the Ohio cluster of CORS stations on November 20, 2003 and the North Carolina cluster of CORS stations on October 29, 2003 from [6] are used to perform “data-replay” analysis for several independent station pairs with separations from 23 to 75 km. These separations are significantly further than the effective LAAS user-to-LGF separation at the CAT I decision height. Comparisons of the result of data-replay analysis with the result of worst-case simulation in the manner of [1] are made. The conclusion derived from these comparisons is that CAT I ionosphere analysis performed by worst-case simulation is conservative but not unreasonable.
2006
Lee, Jiyun, Luo, Ming, Pullen, Sam, Park, Young Shin, Enge, Per, Brenner, Mats
Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2006), Fort Worth, TX, 2006.
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title = {Position-Domain Geometry Screening to Maximize LAAS Availability in the Presence of Ionosphere Anomalies},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Ming Luo and Sam Pullen and Young Shin Park and Per Enge and Mats Brenner},
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year = {2006},
date = {2006-09-26},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2006)},
pages = {393 - 408},
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abstract = {All fault modes in the Local Area Augmentation System should be mitigated within the specified integrity risk allocation to guarantee the safety of a landing aircraft. However, monitoring within the LAAS Ground Facility is insufficient to completely protect users from unacceptable errors due to ionosphere spatial gradient anomalies. A methodology has been developed to inflate the broadcast ópr_gnd and óvig so that subset satellite geometries (i.e., subsets of the set of approved GPS satellites for which the LGF broadcasts valid corrections) for which unacceptable errors are possible are made unavailable to users. The required sigma inflation factors are computed offline and are input into each LGF site during site installation. These offline simulations and the resulting inflation factors are updated periodically to insure that they remain sufficient to mitigate residual ionosphere anomaly risk. This paper describes the updated ionosphere threat space and the geometry screening algorithm required to be implemented to support the FAA/Honeywell LAAS Provably Safe Prototype (PSP) at Memphis airport. It also demonstrates by simulation results that the required availability of integrity for CAT I approaches is achievable with the proposed method.},
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All fault modes in the Local Area Augmentation System should be mitigated within the specified integrity risk allocation to guarantee the safety of a landing aircraft. However, monitoring within the LAAS Ground Facility is insufficient to completely protect users from unacceptable errors due to ionosphere spatial gradient anomalies. A methodology has been developed to inflate the broadcast ópr_gnd and óvig so that subset satellite geometries (i.e., subsets of the set of approved GPS satellites for which the LGF broadcasts valid corrections) for which unacceptable errors are possible are made unavailable to users. The required sigma inflation factors are computed offline and are input into each LGF site during site installation. These offline simulations and the resulting inflation factors are updated periodically to insure that they remain sufficient to mitigate residual ionosphere anomaly risk. This paper describes the updated ionosphere threat space and the geometry screening algorithm required to be implemented to support the FAA/Honeywell LAAS Provably Safe Prototype (PSP) at Memphis airport. It also demonstrates by simulation results that the required availability of integrity for CAT I approaches is achievable with the proposed method.
Lee, Jiyun, Pullen, Sam, Datta-Barua, Seebany, Enge, Per
Assessment of Nominal Ionosphere Spatial Decorrelation for LAAS Conference
Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2006, San Diego, CA, 2006.
@conference{Lee2006cc,
title = {Assessment of Nominal Ionosphere Spatial Decorrelation for LAAS},
author = {Jiyun Lee and Sam Pullen and Seebany Datta-Barua and Per Enge},
doi = {10.1109/PLANS.2006.1650638},
year = {2006},
date = {2006-04-25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2006},
pages = {506 - 514},
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abstract = {The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a ground-based differential GPS system being developed to support aircraft precision approach and landing navigation with guaranteed integrity. To quantitatively evaluate navigation integrity, an aircraft computes vertical and lateral protection levels as position-error bounds using integrity parameters broadcast by a nearby LAAS Ground Facility (LGF). These parameters include a standard deviation of ionosphere spatial decorrelation because the range errors introduced by the ionosphere vary between LGF receivers and LAAS users. Thus, it is necessary to estimate typical ionosphere gradients for nominal days and to determine an appropriate upper bound to sufficiently cover the differential error due to the ionosphere spatial decorrelation. In this paper, both Station-Pair and Time-Step methods are used to assess the standard deviation of vertical (or zenith) ionosphere gradients ( vig ó ). The Station-Pair method compares the simultaneous zenith delays from two different reference stations to a single satellite and observes the difference in delay across the known ionosphere pierce point (IPP) separation. Because most of these IPP separations are larger than 100 km, the Time-Step method is also used to better understand ionosphere gradients at LAAS-applicable distance scales (10 – 40 km). The Time-Step method compares the ionospheric delay of a single line-of-sight (LOS) at one epoch with the delay for the same LOS at the other epoch a short time (seconds or minutes) later. This method has the advantage of removing inter-frequency bias (IFB) calibration errors on different satellites and receivers while possibly introducing an estimation error due to temporal ionosphere gradients. This paper shows results from analyzing the post-processed ionosphere database for the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), known as “supertruth”, as well as JPL post-processed data from the Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) database. CORS data is adequate for the Station-Pair method because of the relatively dense CORS receiver network. However, WAAS data is of higher quality since each reference station has three high-quality receivers that aid in removing measurement outliers and reducing noise. The results of this study demonstrate that typical values of vig ó are on the order of 1 – 3 mm/km for non-stormy ionosphere conditions. As a result, a broadcast vig ó of 4 mm/km is conservative enough to bound ionosphere spatial decorrelation for nominal days with margin for more active days and for non-Gaussian tail behavior. Future work will attempt to better resolve the details of nominal ionosphere behavior over short distances as well as determine if the broadcast “bounding value” of vig ó can be reduced prior to LAAS commissioning.},
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The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a ground-based differential GPS system being developed to support aircraft precision approach and landing navigation with guaranteed integrity. To quantitatively evaluate navigation integrity, an aircraft computes vertical and lateral protection levels as position-error bounds using integrity parameters broadcast by a nearby LAAS Ground Facility (LGF). These parameters include a standard deviation of ionosphere spatial decorrelation because the range errors introduced by the ionosphere vary between LGF receivers and LAAS users. Thus, it is necessary to estimate typical ionosphere gradients for nominal days and to determine an appropriate upper bound to sufficiently cover the differential error due to the ionosphere spatial decorrelation. In this paper, both Station-Pair and Time-Step methods are used to assess the standard deviation of vertical (or zenith) ionosphere gradients ( vig ó ). The Station-Pair method compares the simultaneous zenith delays from two different reference stations to a single satellite and observes the difference in delay across the known ionosphere pierce point (IPP) separation. Because most of these IPP separations are larger than 100 km, the Time-Step method is also used to better understand ionosphere gradients at LAAS-applicable distance scales (10 – 40 km). The Time-Step method compares the ionospheric delay of a single line-of-sight (LOS) at one epoch with the delay for the same LOS at the other epoch a short time (seconds or minutes) later. This method has the advantage of removing inter-frequency bias (IFB) calibration errors on different satellites and receivers while possibly introducing an estimation error due to temporal ionosphere gradients. This paper shows results from analyzing the post-processed ionosphere database for the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), known as “supertruth”, as well as JPL post-processed data from the Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) database. CORS data is adequate for the Station-Pair method because of the relatively dense CORS receiver network. However, WAAS data is of higher quality since each reference station has three high-quality receivers that aid in removing measurement outliers and reducing noise. The results of this study demonstrate that typical values of vig ó are on the order of 1 – 3 mm/km for non-stormy ionosphere conditions. As a result, a broadcast vig ó of 4 mm/km is conservative enough to bound ionosphere spatial decorrelation for nominal days with margin for more active days and for non-Gaussian tail behavior. Future work will attempt to better resolve the details of nominal ionosphere behavior over short distances as well as determine if the broadcast “bounding value” of vig ó can be reduced prior to LAAS commissioning.
2004
Lee, Jiyun
LAAS Position Domain Monitor Analysis and Test Results for CAT II/III Operations Conference
Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2004), Long Beach, CA, 2004.
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title = {LAAS Position Domain Monitor Analysis and Test Results for CAT II/III Operations},
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url = {https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=5962},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-09-21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2004)},
pages = {2786-2796},
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abstract = {The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a differential GPS navigation system being developed to support aircraft precision approach and landing with guaranteed accuracy, integrity, continuity and availability. While the system promises to support Category I operations, significant technical challenges are encountered in supporting Category II and III operations. The primary concern has been the need to guarantee contentment with stringent requirements for navigation availability. This paper describes how Position Domain Monitoring (PDM) may be used to improve system availability by reducing the inflation factor for standard deviations of pseudorange correction errors. The role of PDM in mitigating the continuity and integrity risks are also presented with recent test results.},
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The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is a differential GPS navigation system being developed to support aircraft precision approach and landing with guaranteed accuracy, integrity, continuity and availability. While the system promises to support Category I operations, significant technical challenges are encountered in supporting Category II and III operations. The primary concern has been the need to guarantee contentment with stringent requirements for navigation availability. This paper describes how Position Domain Monitoring (PDM) may be used to improve system availability by reducing the inflation factor for standard deviations of pseudorange correction errors. The role of PDM in mitigating the continuity and integrity risks are also presented with recent test results.
2003
Pullen, Sam, Lee, Jiyun, Xie, Gang, Enge, Per
CUSUM-Based Real-Time Risk Metrics for Augmented GPS and GNSS Conference
Proceedings of the 16th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS/GNSS 2003), Portland, OR, 2003.
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title = {CUSUM-Based Real-Time Risk Metrics for Augmented GPS and GNSS},
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year = {2003},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS/GNSS 2003)},
pages = {2275-2287},
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abstract = {Sigma monitoring is a key component of the real-time integrity verification capability demonstrated by the Stanford University Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) Ground Facility prototype known as the Integrity Monitor Testbed (IMT). The IMT has both sigma estimation and sigma Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) algorithms to detect small and large sigma violations, respectively. When combined with a prior probability distribution for the sigma parameter being monitored and the use of Bayes' rule, the CUSUM can provide a real-time posterior distribution of sigma based on the current CUSUM state. This paper presents the methodology for this "Bayesian CUSUM" technique and shows how it could be used to enhance integrity monitoring while better preserving continuity and availability.},
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Sigma monitoring is a key component of the real-time integrity verification capability demonstrated by the Stanford University Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) Ground Facility prototype known as the Integrity Monitor Testbed (IMT). The IMT has both sigma estimation and sigma Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) algorithms to detect small and large sigma violations, respectively. When combined with a prior probability distribution for the sigma parameter being monitored and the use of Bayes' rule, the CUSUM can provide a real-time posterior distribution of sigma based on the current CUSUM state. This paper presents the methodology for this "Bayesian CUSUM" technique and shows how it could be used to enhance integrity monitoring while better preserving continuity and availability.