Preliminary Analysis of BDS-3 Data Based on iGMAS

Abstract The Beidou Navigation Satellite Demonstration System and Beidou Regional Satellite Navigation System are accomplished, and the Beidou Global Satellite Navigation System (BDS-3) is under construction. Nineteen networking satellites have been launched by the end of November 2018. To assess the new and old signals of new networking satellites, the data quality is analyzed from the observation noise and pseudo-range multipath two aspects based on the data of iGMAS stations from 18th to 28th May 2018. The accuracies of BDS-3/GPS combined orbit determinations with B1I/B3I and B1C/B2a are compared. The results show that the data quality of the new signal B2a is similar to that of B1I/B3I, and the data quality of B1C is slightly worse than that of B1I/B3I. Comparing the orbit and clock correction accuracies of overlapped arcs (48 hours), the results with B1C/B2a are slightly better than those with B1I/B3I. The averaged 3D position accuracies (3D RMSs) of precise orbit determinations with B1C/B2a and B1I/B3I are around 35 cm. The RMS values of clock corrections are less than 0.5 ns.