A Modified Shao-C Tropospheric Delay Correction Model for Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mengistu, Gizaw (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Getachew, Yohannes | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-10T08:01:30Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T11:25:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-10T08:01:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T11:25:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The troposphere a ects electromagnetic signal propagation causing signal path bending and the alteration of the electromagnetic wave velocity. Tropospheric delay can introduce a considerable error in satellite positioning if it is not properly estimated. The average GPS signal delay in the zenith direction can vary from 1.8 m to 2.5 m depending on meteorological conditions and site location. In this work, the spatial and temporal variations of the zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD), zenith wet delay (ZWD) and precipitable water(PW) over Ethiopia, are analyzed using ECMWF (European Centre for Medium- Range Weather Forecast) ERA-interim pressure-level atmospheric data and compared with ZTD time series for 5-year period from 2007-2011 measured at several GPS stations from the Crustal Movement Observation Network of over Great Rift Valley regions of Eastern Africa which are managed by UNAVCO (University NAVstar COnsortium). A modi ed version of tropospheric delay correction model, SHAO-C used in China, is assessed for its performance over Ethiopia. ZTD is modeled directly by a cosine function together with an initial value and an amplitude at a reference height in each grid, and the variation of ZTD along altitude, latitude and longitude is tted with a second order polynomials. The coe cients of the modi ed SHAO-C are generated using the ECMWF ERA-Interim data at 0.75x0.75 degree latitude-longitude grid, featuring regional characteristics in order to facilitate a wide range of navigation and other surveying applications. The altitude is obtained from high resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The overall average bias ranges between -4.3 cm to -1 cm for ZTD, -3.42 cm to -0.584 cm for ZWD and -1.12 cm to -0.34 cm for PW, and the RMSE is less than 4.5 cm. The results are assessed for ful lling the requirements of most GNSS navigation or positioning applications in terms of the tropospheric delay correction | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/7560 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | A Modified Shao-C Tropospheric Delay | en_US |
| dc.title | A Modified Shao-C Tropospheric Delay Correction Model for Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |