The Analysis of Ionospheric Scintillation on the Global Positioning System (GPS) at Bangkok

Author

Theerapatpaiboon, P. ; Supnithi, P. ; Leelaruji, N. ; Hemmakorn, N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., King Mongkut´´s Inst. of Technol., Bangkok

fYear

2006

Firstpage

3632

Lastpage

3635

Abstract

This paper presents analysis of ionospheric scintillation on GPS signal (1575.45 MHz) by using the GSV4000 GPS receiver installed at KMITL. The characteristic of ionospheric scintillation on GPS signal are analyzed by employing S₄ index to identify the amplitude scintillation and sigma_Phi(60 sec) to identify the phase scintillation. From the results, we found that the ionospheric scintillation phenomena impact on the GPS signal leading to the error in the global positioning system, differ from the non-scintillation period more than 20 meters

Keywords

Global Positioning System; UHF radio propagation; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 1575.45 MHz; Bangkok; GSV4000 GPS receiver; Global Positioning System; KMITL; King Mongkut´s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang; Thailand; ionospheric scintillation phenomena impact; Atmosphere; Earth; Electrons; Global Positioning System; Information analysis; Ionization; Ionosphere; Satellites; Signal analysis; Signal processing; GPS positioning error; Ionospheric scintillation; Satellite communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

89-950038-4-7

Electronic_ISBN

89-950038-5-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2006.314893

Filename

4108393