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A series of activities have been carried out at the University of New Brunswick in an effort to evaluate advances in long-range marine kinematic differential positioning. These activities involved processing and analysis of GPS carrier phase kinematic data sets. Some of the data was collected by UNB and some was provided by The XYZs of GPS Inc. Data were collected using Trimble 5700 and Ashtech Z-12 receivers. The data sets were processed using the software DynaPos provided by the The XYZs of GPS Inc. The best results obtained in our analysis indicate an agreement of 5 cm RMS for the horizontal component and 12 cm RMS for the vertical component between two ionospheric-delay free solutions, in baselines varying from 40 to 100 km.
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The US Naval Oceanographic Office funded part of the work described in this paper under a research sub-contract for the University of Southern Mississippi. Funds were also provided by NSERC. We would like to express our thanks to Dr. David Wells, Dr. Ben Remondi and Mr. Kendall Ferguson for useful discussions during the project.
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Cove, K.M., Santos, M.C. An analysis of carrier phase differential kinematic GPS positioning using DynaPos. GPS Solutions 8, 210–216 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-004-0105-7
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