Open Access Research Article

An Adaptive Multipath Mitigation Filter for GNSS Applications

Chung-Liang Chang and Jyh-Ching Juang*

Author Affiliations

Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan

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EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008, 2008:214815  doi:10.1155/2008/214815


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Received: 27 June 2007
Revisions received: 15 November 2007
Accepted: 5 January 2008
Published: 27 January 2008

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Abstract

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is designed to serve both civilian and military applications. However, the GNSS performance suffers from several errors, such as ionosphere delay, troposphere delay, ephemeris error, and receiver noise and multipath. Among these errors, the multipath is one of the most unpredictable error sources in high-accuracy navigation. This paper applies a modified adaptive filter to reduce code and carrier multipath errors in GPS. The filter employs a tap-delay line with an Adaline network to estimate the direction and the delayed-signal parameters. Then, the multipath effect is mitigated by subtracting the estimated multipath effects from the processed correlation function. The hardware complexity of the method is also compared with other existing methods. Simulation results show that the proposed method using field data has a significant reduction in multipath error especially in short-delay multipath scenarios.

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