Title
A Simplified Worldwide Ionospheric Model for Satellite Navigation
Abstract
Ionospheric delay is one of the main sources of error in satellite positioning and navigation. Ionospheric broadcast parameters are required to correct for the ionospheric delay, especially in the case of massive single-frequency users. The well-known Klobuchar model has been providing the ionospheric delay corrections for GPS users during the last several decades. For Galileo users, a three-dimensional electron density model (NeQuick G) based on the NeQuick climatological model is used to correct for ionospheric delay. The recently completed Chinese BeiDou Satellite Navigation System (BDS) broadcasts two types of ionospheric models coefficients on different signals. In this article, we propose a simplified worldwide ionospheric model (SWIM) for satellite positioning. By comparison, our SWIM model has better performance than the Klobuchar model in terms of accuracy at both low and high solar activity, and is comparable to the NeQuick G and BDS ionospheric models. At the same time, the SWIM model has high efficiency because of the simple calculation process. It has great potential for ionospheric delay corrections in satellite navigation and positioning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TAES.2021.3103259
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Broadcast model,ionosphere,satellite navigation,simplified worldwide ionospheric model (SWIM) model,total electron content (TEC)
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0018-9251
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cheng Wang15811.05
Tao Zhang211.70
Lei Fan300.34
Chuang Shi43211.73
Guifei Jing500.34