Elimination of cyclic phase slips of single-frequency kinematic GNSS observations

The results of development of a new method for the estimation and elimination of cyclic phase slips of single-frequency kinematic GNSS observations have been presented. The investigations and verification of the proposed method were performed using simulations and real GPS observations. Conditions of the continuity restoration of phase observations were determined; the specified conditions ensure a reliable elimination of cyclic phase slips under conditions of the partial and total loss of observations on intervals of up to 30 s. The possibilities of enhancing the reliability of elimination of phase slips were investigated using a group of increments of observations obtained under the free running and differential modes of coordinate determinations. It was shown that the reliability of solving the problem in question was critically dependent on the use of smoothed code observations. The smoothing of code observations makes it possible to achieve a much larger effect as compared with an attempt of increasing the number of satellites in the current constellation.