Doppler Positioning Performance of LEO Mega Constellation
This paper proposed a Doppler-only point-solution algorithm and analyzed the Doppler positioning performance based on the Starlink constellation.The Doppler positioning accuracy was about 3~6 m.To achieve the meter-level positioning accuracy,the satel-lite position and velocity errors should be within several meters and several centimeters per second,respectively.The ionospheric delay rates of C-band signal would cause about 2 m error in Doppler positioning.The positioning error would increase by dozens of meters if there were no corrections for the tropospheric errors.To ensure convergence in the LEO-based Doppler positioning,the initial receiver position error should be less than 300 km when the satellites orbit at an altitude of 550 km.
positioningnavigation and timingbroadband LEO constellationsDoppler positioningionospheric delay ratestropo-spheric delay rates