CARRIER-PHASE MULTIPATH CORRECTIONS FOR GPS-BASED SATELLITE ATTITUDE DETERMINATION

Angela K. Reichert and Penina Axelrad

Peer Reviewed

Abstract:	Multipath errors in GPS carrier-phase data dominate the error budget for short-baseline applications such as static and kinematic relative positioning and vehicle attitude determination. This paper demonstrates the high degree of spatial repeatability of these errors for a spacecraft environment and describes a correction technique, termed the sky map method, which exploits the spatial correlation to correct measurements and improve the accuracy of GPS-based attitude solutions. Examples of CRISTA-SPAS satellite results are presented.
Published in:	NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Volume 48, Number 2
Pages:	77 - 88
Cite this article:	Reichert, Angela K., Axelrad, Penina, "CARRIER-PHASE MULTIPATH CORRECTIONS FOR GPS-BASED SATELLITE ATTITUDE DETERMINATION", NAVIGATION: Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 48, No. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 77-88.
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