Ambiguity Solving & Quality Factor; Esa, Esa-Like, Hybrid Ranging And Usb Standards - Safran CORTEX CRT Quantum User Manual

Ambiguity Solving & Quality Factor
3.6.3.2.
Ambiguity solving is performed during minor tones (ESA, ESA-like, Hybrid Ranging and USB tone standards) or
PN codes (ESA code standard) transmission. For the INMARSAT and LMCO standards, only raw phase-shift
measurements are delivered.
In the ranging transaction response message returned to the Ranging Client, the status Quality Factor provides
a confidence indication on the ambiguity solving (a value of 100 denotes correct ambiguity solving).
3.6.3.2.1.

ESA, ESA-like, Hybrid Ranging and USB Standards

For these ranging standards, ambiguity solving consists in finding the propagation delay that best matches the
phase measurements on the minor and major tones. For every tone, the relation between the propagation time
and the phase measurement is given by:
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These phase-shift measurements take into account the Board and Ground corrections and the Doppler
compensation.
Once estimated the delay ��̂ =
number of cycles on the Major Tone computed by the ambiguity solving, we define the ambiguity solving
quadratic error ������������ as (where ��
In the computing of Arqerr, for each minor tone, an a posteriori estimation error is computed as the difference
between the phase measured on this tone and the phase obtained from the estimated propagation delay ��̂ .
The Quality Factor Q is defined as:
This Quality Factor will mainly depend on the noise level (S/No at RAU input) and on the un-compensated
ground or on-board non-linearity (if any). It depends also on the ranging standard, number of used minor tones,
and integration time on each minor tone.
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