Assessments of GPS satellite orbiting period effects on diurnal and semi-diurnal luni-solar declinations utilizing Galileo satellites

Abstract

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) can observe a variety of surface deformations on Earth, including periodic oscillations at different frequencies. An example of such phenomena is ocean tide loadings (OTL), which result from the redistribution of water mass. The Global Positioning System (GPS) exhibits orbital geometry that causes its revisit and orbital periods to coincide with the diurnal and semi-diurnal luni-solar declination constituents, known as K1 and K2, respectively. Consequently, the system faces challenges in accurately estimating these periodic oscillations due to its orbital artifacts. This study aims to quantify the extent to which GPS orbital artifacts introduce periodic signals into the K1 and K2 constituents by utilizing the Galileo system and determining the most suitable positioning approach. A dataset from the International GNSS Service (IGS), spanning 40 days in 2024 and covering six stations, was analyzed. Coordinates were estimated using both kinematic positioning every 5 minutes and a 6-hour static precise point positioning (PPP) mode with a 3-hour shift. The power spectra for the east, north, and up components indicated that, on average, the GPS system contributes 52.8% to the K1 constituents and 66.3% to the K2 constituents. Despite expectations that the diurnal K1 and semi-diurnal K2 tidal constituents would be more prominent in the power spectra of the GPS comparing to that of natural signature or of other navigation system (Galileo for this study), the diurnal K1 tidal constituent appeared weak in the kinematic mode power spectra for the GPS system. These findings validate that the overlapped-static PPP mode is a more appropriate approach for estimating these periodic deformations.

Keywords

• GPS
• Galileo
• Power-spectra
• Tidal Loadings
• PPP

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