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Performance of Dual-Frequencies Low-Cost GNSS Sensors for Real Time Monitoring

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Geomatics and Geospatial Technologies (ASITA 2021)

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Abstract

GNSS technology has now become a viable tool for monitoring applications in geology and civil engineering. Low-cost sensors have been available on the marketplace for more than 10 years in which technology has made great strides forward, and also the performance of these instruments has increased significantly. Until a few years ago only single-frequency receivers were available, which still guaranteed respectable performance, now dual-frequency receivers are also on the market.

In this work, the performance in RTK mode on a very short baseline, in terms of accuracy and convergence time, of two single (M8P) and dual-frequency (F9P) u-blox receivers were compared. Furthermore, three types of GNSS antenna (patch, low-cost, and geodetic class) were tested coupled to the F9P receiver, to evaluate the impact on the performance of the quality of the antenna. The accuracies highlighted by the tests show that this low-cost dual frequency instrumentation is more performing. The convergence times also confirm this aspect. For this reason, these types of sensors can be used not only for real-time monitoring but also for post-processing on long baselines or for Precise Point Positioning [1]. Given the economic convenience of these devices compared to the geodetic class ones, it is possible to think of their increasingly massive use in monitoring.

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We would like to show our gratitude to “CAE S.P.A.” for making GNSS and Radio devices available and for their support in this work.

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Poluzzi, L., Gandolfi, S. (2022). Performance of Dual-Frequencies Low-Cost GNSS Sensors for Real Time Monitoring. In: Borgogno-Mondino, E., Zamperlin, P. (eds) Geomatics and Geospatial Technologies. ASITA 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1507. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94426-1_18

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