An Experimental Identification of Multipath Effect in GPS Positioning Error

ABSTRACT: The analysis of the GPS multipath effects in maritime environment is constrained with the practice of traditional GPS receiver design, that prevents access to GPS signals in Base-band Processing Domain. Here we propose and validate a simple method for experimental identification of multipath effect in Navigation Processing Domain, based on spectral characterisation of time series of GPS positioning errors.

KEYWORDS: Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Global Positioning System (GPS), Accuracy, GPS Positioning Error, Navigation Processing Domain, Multipath Effect, Base-band Processing Domain (BPD), Pseudo Random Noise (PRN)

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Citation note:

Rumora I., Sikirica N., Filjar R.: An Experimental Identification of Multipath Effect in GPS Positioning Error. TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 12, No. 1, doi:10.12716/1001.12.01.02, pp. 29-32, 2018

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