GIOVE Mission Sensor Station Performance Characterization: Overview of the Results

M. Crisci, M. Hollreiser, M. Falcone, M. Colina, and J. Giraud

Abstract:	The exploitation of the GIOVE signal is the basis for the early experimentation activities conceived to mitigate the risk of the Galileo program, to anticipate as much as possible the assessment of the critical technology (CLOCK, NSGU, etc.) and to contribute to the consolidation and validation of the overall system design. In particular Orbit Determination, Time Synchronization (ODTS), Signal and Receiver performance have been evaluated and extensively monitored during a period of a year after the deployment of the Mission Infrastructure. The main elements of the infrastructure are a worldwide distributed network of Galileo Experimental Sensor Station (GESS) and the GIOVE Processing Center located at ESTEC (Netherlands). The raw observables of GIOVE are collected by a set of deployed GESS and processed in the Galileo processing center at ESTEC. The objective of this paper is to describe the methodology and present some of the consolidated results of these experimentation activities.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2007) September 25 - 28, 2007 Fort Worth Convention Center Fort Worth, TX
Pages:	1028 - 1041
Cite this article:	Crisci, M., Hollreiser, M., Falcone, M., Colina, M., Giraud, J., "GIOVE Mission Sensor Station Performance Characterization: Overview of the Results," Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2007), Fort Worth, TX, September 2007, pp. 1028-1041.
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