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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,752 Views
21 Pages

Intrinsic Identification and Mitigation of Multipath for Enhanced GNSS Positioning

  • Qianxia Li,
  • Linyuan Xia,
  • Ting On Chan,
  • Jingchao Xia,
  • Jijun Geng,
  • Hongyu Zhu and
  • Yuezhen Cai

30 December 2020

In global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based positioning and applications, multipath is by far the most obstinate impact. To overcome paradoxical issues faced by current processing approaches for multipath, this paper employs an intrinsic metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Data Processing and Navigation in Challenging Environments)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,146 Views
11 Pages

Enhancing GNSS PPP Algorithms with AI: Towards Mitigating Multipath Effects

  • Álvaro Tena,
  • Adrián Chamorro and
  • Jesús David Calle

Nowadays, high precision and reliability of Global Navigation Satellite Systems are increasingly important in positioning applications. Machine learning is used to improve the performance of the GSHARP PPP algorithm by reducing the effect of multipat...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of European Navigation Conference 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,739 Views
23 Pages

Multipath Identification and Mitigation for Enhanced GNSS Positioning in Urban Environments

  • Qianxia Li,
  • Xue Hou,
  • Yuanbin Ye,
  • Wenfeng Zhang,
  • Qingsong Li and
  • Yuezhen Cai

2 October 2025

Due to the increasing demand for accurate and robust GNSS positioning for location-based services (LBS) in urban regions, the impacts prevalent in metropolitan areas, like multipath reflections and various interferences, have become persistent challe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in GNSS Signal Processing and Navigation—Second Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
15,324 Views
22 Pages

GNSS Carrier-Phase Multipath Modeling and Correction: A Review and Prospect of Data Processing Methods

  • Qiuzhao Zhang,
  • Longqiang Zhang,
  • Ao Sun,
  • Xiaolin Meng,
  • Dongsheng Zhao and
  • Craig Hancock

2 January 2024

A multipath error is one of the main sources of GNSS positioning errors. It cannot be eliminated by forming double-difference and other methods, and it has become an issue in GNSS positioning error processing, because it is mainly related to the surr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,299 Views
15 Pages

27 January 2022

As the necessity of location information closely related to everyday life has increased, the use of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) has gradually increased in populated urban areas. Contrary to the high necessity and expectation of GNSS in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling with Applications in Real-World Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,998 Views
16 Pages

Multipath Error Fusion Modeling Methods for Multi-GNSS

  • Xuan Zou,
  • Zhiyuan Li,
  • Yawei Wang,
  • Chenlong Deng,
  • Yangyang Li,
  • Weiming Tang,
  • Ruinan Fu,
  • Jianhui Cui and
  • Jingnan Liu

26 July 2021

The multipath error is considered to be the most limiting factor for high precision positioning applications. The sidereal filtering (SF) method can be used to mitigate the multipath error in the observation domain, and it has been successfully appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,720 Views
16 Pages

11 October 2023

During short baseline measurements in the Real-Time Kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS-RTK), multipath error has a significant impact on the quality of observed data. Aiming at the characteristics of multipath error in GNSS-RTK measur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Signals and Precise Point Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,140 Views
23 Pages

28 April 2022

To date, no universal modelling technique is available to mitigate the effect of site-specific multipaths in high-precision global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data processing. Multipaths affect both carrier-phase and code/pseudorange measureme...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,839 Views
19 Pages

15 December 2024

Multipath is a source of error that limits the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning precision in short baselines. The tightly combined model between systems increases the number of observations and enhances the strength of the mathem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Service Using Satellite Navigation Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,234 Views
23 Pages

On Mitigating the Effects of Multipath on GNSS Using Environmental Context Detection

  • Arif Hussain,
  • Arslan Ahmed,
  • Madad Ali Shah,
  • Sunny Katyara,
  • Lukasz Staszewski and
  • Hina Magsi

3 December 2022

Accurate, ubiquitous and reliable navigation can make transportation systems (road, rail, air and marine) more efficient, safer and more sustainable by enabling path planning, route optimization and fuel economy optimization. However, accurate naviga...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,214 Views
28 Pages

6 February 2025

This paper addresses the critical challenge of understanding and interpreting deep learning models in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) applications, specifically focusing on multipath effect detection and analysis. As GNSS systems become inc...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
12,115 Views
19 Pages

3 April 2021

This paper proposes a method for detecting non-line-of-sight (NLOS) multipath, which causes large positioning errors in a global navigation satellite system (GNSS). We use GNSS signal correlation output, which is the most primitive GNSS signal proces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Data Processing and Navigation in Challenging Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
9,717 Views
25 Pages

GNSS Multipath Detection Using Continuous Time-Series C/N0

  • Nobuaki Kubo,
  • Kaito Kobayashi and
  • Rei Furukawa

21 July 2020

The reduction of multipath errors is a significant challenge in the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), especially when receiving non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals. However, selecting line-of-sight (LOS) satellites correctly is still a difficul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Data Processing and Navigation in Challenging Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,823 Views
26 Pages

A New Method for GNSS Multipath Mitigation with an Adaptive Frequency Domain Filter

  • Siqi Yu,
  • Fei Guo,
  • Xiaohong Zhang,
  • Wanke Liu,
  • Xin Li and
  • Renpan Wu

1 August 2018

Multipath is the dominant error source for most fixed Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) sites and stations. The presence of multipath, particularly the multipath effect on pseudorange measurement, seriously affects positioning accuracy. Unfo...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,938 Views
22 Pages

A Refined Multipath Correction Model for High-Precision GNSS Deformation Monitoring

  • Yan Chen,
  • Ran Lu,
  • Xingyu Zhou,
  • Mingkun Su and
  • Mingyuan Zhang

4 August 2025

In deformation monitoring, the severe GNSS multipath caused by reflective surfaces can significantly degrade positioning accuracy. However, traditional multipath mitigation methods often assume strong day-to-day repeatability of residual errors, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,704 Views
32 Pages

GNSS Code Multipath Mitigation by Cascading Measurement Monitoring Techniques

  • Ali Pirsiavash,
  • Ali Broumandan,
  • Gérard Lachapelle and
  • Kyle O’Keefe

19 June 2018

Various measurement monitoring techniques are investigated to mitigate the effect of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) code multipath through error correction, stochastic weighting of measurements and detection and exclusion (or de-weighting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS and Fusion with Other Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,224 Views
14 Pages

26 October 2024

A novel approach is proposed to mitigate the multipath effect that is considered a major source of error in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning in urban areas. We utilize code pseudorange acceleration measurements as a weight in a l...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
700 Views
10 Pages

Toward an Interpretable Multipath Error Model from GNSS Observables Through the Application of Deep Learning

  • Thomas Barbero,
  • Eustachio Roberto Matera,
  • Bertrand Ekambi,
  • Jeremy Chamard and
  • Mathieu Ekambi

14 February 2026

Multipath degradation of GNSS measurements is the main source of error in urban areas. Robust mitigation of this error source is still a challenge for standalone low-cost GNSS receivers. The complexity associated with the development of Multipath deg...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of European Navigation Conference 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,151 Views
20 Pages

Simulations and Analysis of GNSS Multipath Observables for Frozen and Thawed Soil under Complex Surface Conditions

  • Chao Gao,
  • Weihua Bai,
  • Zhiqiang Wang,
  • Xuerui Wu,
  • Lijun Liu,
  • Nan Deng and
  • Junming Xia

20 July 2021

The transition of the freeze–thaw state of the land surface soil occurs every year with the season and is closely related to the human living environment. The freezing and thawing changes of the ground surface have important effects on hydrological a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Application on Soil Moisture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,977 Views
18 Pages

23 August 2023

Real-time GNSS PPP is commonly used for high-precision positioning, but its utility is constrained by factors that necessitate extended convergence periods for a dependable accuracy. Multipath, as an unmodeled error, significantly curtails PPP perfor...

(This article belongs to the Topic GNSS Measurement Technique in Aerial Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,688 Views
14 Pages

Flying Target Detection Technology Based on GNSS Multipath Signals

  • Pengfei Zhu,
  • Qinglin Zhu,
  • Xiang Dong and
  • Mingchen Sun

6 March 2024

In this study, a passive radar system that detects flying targets is developed in order to solve the problems associated with traditional flying target detection systems (i.e., their large size, high power consumption, complex systems, and poor battl...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,023 Views
19 Pages

17 July 2022

Due to the massive multipath effects and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signal receptions, the accuracy and reliability of GNSS positioning solution can be severely degraded in a highly urbanized area, which has a negative impact on the performance of GNSS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances, Methods, and Applications for Micro Inertial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,851 Views
22 Pages

Advanced Sidereal Filtering for Mitigating Multipath Effects in GNSS Short Baseline Positioning

  • Minghua Wang,
  • Jiexian Wang,
  • Danan Dong,
  • Wen Chen,
  • Haojun Li and
  • Zhiren Wang

Advanced sidereal filtering (ASF) is an observation-domain sidereal filtering that adopts the repeat time of each individual satellite separately rather than the mean repeat time, adopted by the modified sidereal filtering (MSF). To evaluate the perf...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,484 Views
15 Pages

23 March 2023

Sea level monitoring is particularly important in coastal areas that are vulnerable to marine disasters. It was recently demonstrated that the global navigation satellite system multipath reflectometry (GNSS-MR) technique, which uses multipath signal...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,425 Views
18 Pages

14 November 2018

In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) relative positioning applications, multipath errors are non-negligible. Mitigation of the multipath error is an important task for precise positioning and it is possible due to the repeatability, even with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Concurrent Positioning, Mapping and Perception of Multi-source Data Fusion for Smart Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,005 Views
22 Pages

10 February 2025

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), renowned for its high precision and automation, has shone brightly in the deformation monitoring of offshore facilities and sea-crossing bridges. However, antennas placed in these locations are often sub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R): Techniques, Applications, and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,317 Views
25 Pages

16 October 2020

Multipath detection and mitigation are crucial issues for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) high-precision positioning. The multi-frequency carrier power-to-noise density ratio (C/N0)-based multipath detection technique has achieved good resu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-time GNSS Precise Positioning Service and its Augmentation Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,897 Views
24 Pages

Analysis of Multi-GNSS Multipath for Parameter-Unified Autocorrelation-Based Mitigation and the Impact of Constellation Shifts

  • Wenhao Xiong,
  • Yumiao Tian,
  • Xiaolei Dai,
  • Qichao Zhang,
  • Yibing Liang and
  • Xiongwei Ruan

29 October 2024

Multipath effects can significantly reduce the accuracy of GNSS precise positioning. Traditional methods, such as sidereal filtering and grid-based approaches, attempt to model and mitigate these errors by leveraging the spatial autocorrelation of mu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-GNSS Technology and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,434 Views
22 Pages

5 December 2025

Emerging technologies such as urban air mobility and autonomous vehicles increasingly rely on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for accurate positioning. However, GNSS alone suffers from severe degradation in complex environments, particular...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,842 Views
19 Pages

19 November 2022

The surrounding environment of a GNSS observation station is changed during a flood, and this results in a more serious multipath than in a normal environment. Considering that the multipath error is largely related to the pseudo-range multipath and...

(This article belongs to the Topic GNSS Measurement Technique in Aerial Navigation)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,030 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2026

Simulated impact multipath (SIM) occurs when forward operators propagate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) signals through strongly nonspherical atmospheric structures, producing multivalued bending angles that cannot b...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,326 Views
16 Pages

Soil Moisture Estimation by GNSS Multipath Signal

  • Xin Chang,
  • Taoyong Jin,
  • Kegen Yu,
  • Yunwei Li,
  • Jiancheng Li and
  • Qiang Zhang

31 October 2019

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) multipath signals received by a geodetic-quality GNSS receiver can be used to estimate the water content of soil around the antenna. The direct signals from satellite to GNSS antenna are the most valuable sig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Navigation Satellite Systems for Earth Observing System)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,930 Views
15 Pages

Suppression of Jammer Multipath in GNSS Antenna Array Receiver

  • Long Huang,
  • Zukun Lu,
  • Zhibin Xiao,
  • Chao Ren,
  • Jie Song and
  • Baiyu Li

13 January 2022

Interference multipath is an important factor to affect the anti-jamming performance for the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antenna array receiver. However, interference multipath must be considered in practical application. In this paper,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,436 Views
24 Pages

5 July 2017

The performance of Signal Quality Monitoring (SQM) techniques under different multipath scenarios is analyzed. First, SQM variation profiles are investigated as critical requirements in evaluating the theoretical performance of SQM metrics. The sensi...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,446 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Multipath Changes in the Polish Permanent GNSS Stations Network

  • Jacek Rapiński,
  • Dariusz Tomaszewski and
  • Renata Pelc-Mieczkowska

30 April 2024

This study examines the influence of multipath errors on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements collected at ASG-EUPOS reference stations between 2010 and 2021. Multipath occurs when GNSS signals reflect off surrounding objects before...

(This article belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,025 Views
10 Pages

Multipath is one of the most challenging factors to model and/or characterize in the GNSS observation error budget. In the case of ground stations, code phase static multipath is typically the largest contributor of local observation errors. Current...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of European Navigation Conference 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,501 Views
12 Pages

Multipath Estimation in Urban Environments from Joint GNSS Receivers and LiDAR Sensors

  • Khurram Ali,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Fabio Dovis,
  • David De Castro and
  • Antonio J. Fernández

30 October 2012

In this paper, multipath error on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals in urban environments is characterized with the help of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) measurements. For this purpose, LiDAR equipment and Global Positioning Sys...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,564 Views
20 Pages

18 July 2024

A technique is proposed to detect the presence of the multipath effect in Global Navigation Satellite Signal (GNSS) signals using a convolutional neural network (CNN) as the building block. The network is trained and validated, for a wide range of C/...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Signal Processing for GNSS and Complementary PNT Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,105 Views
24 Pages

3 August 2022

We present a solution for improving the robustness of GNSS positioning with Android devices. The proposed method combines an acquisition phase performed in a dedicated Android app (thus working on the edge) and a processing phase, based on a modified...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Precise Positioning with Smartphones)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,654 Views
10 Pages

Railway transportation systems have high accuracy and high integrity demands for safe localization. In the future, railway signaling is expected to rely on onboard sensors like Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) in order to reduce installati...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of European Navigation Conference 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,193 Views
14 Pages

28 April 2022

Valid multipath error model is the prerequisite for high-performance GNSS integrity monitoring. It is indispensable to civil aviation and other Safety-of-Life (SoL) users. The model must perfectly bound multipath error while preventing the constructe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,889 Views
24 Pages

28 February 2018

As multipath is one of the dominating error sources for high accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) applications, multipath mitigation approaches are employed to minimize this hazardous error in receivers. Binary offset carrier modulation...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2026

In complex urban environments, GNSS satellite signals suffer from severe multipath errors caused by building occlusion and reflection, which significantly degrades the accuracy of precise point positioning (PPP). This paper proposes a deep-learning-b...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,938 Views
22 Pages

24 December 2019

Nowadays, the high rate GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) positioning methods are widely used as a complementary tool to other geotechnical sensors, such as accelerometers, seismometers, and inertial measurement units (IMU), to evaluate dyna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,075 Views
13 Pages

22 August 2016

Code multipath is an unmanaged error source in precise global navigation satellite system (GNSS) observation processing that limits GNSS positioning accuracy. A new technique for mitigating multipath by installing a wave-absorbing shield is presented...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,544 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Phase Fusion for Pedestrian Localization Using Mass-Market GNSS and MEMS Sensors

  • Qiang Liu,
  • Rendong Ying,
  • Zhendong Dai,
  • Yuze Wang,
  • Jiuchao Qian and
  • Peilin Liu

30 March 2023

Precise pedestrian positioning based on smartphone-grade sensors has been a research hotspot for several years. Due to the poor performance of the mass-market Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Magnetic, Angular Rate, and Gravity (MARG) sensors,...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,685 Views
9 Pages

Toward Context-Aware GNSS Positioning: A Preliminary Analysis

  • Giovanni Cappello,
  • Antonio Maratea,
  • Ciro Gioia,
  • Antonio Angrisano,
  • Silvio Del Pizzo and
  • Salvatore Gaglione

The vast majority of GNSS users move in urban areas, where the signal conditions are highly unstable and multipath or gross errors make GNSS navigation unreliable or plainly unfeasible. In this study, features from real GNSS data collected by differe...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of European Navigation Conference 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,025 Views
27 Pages

Retrieval of Soil Moisture Content Based on Multisatellite Dual-Frequency Combination Multipath Errors

  • Shihai Nie,
  • Yanxia Wang,
  • Jinsheng Tu,
  • Peng Li,
  • Jianhui Xu,
  • Nan Li,
  • Mengke Wang,
  • Danni Huang and
  • Jia Song

3 July 2022

Global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR) is a new type of microwave remote sensing technology that can measure soil moisture content (SMC). GNSS-IR soil moisture retrieval methods based on the satellite signal-to-noi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS, Space Weather and TEC Special Features)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,982 Views
28 Pages

10 November 2023

Increased global dependence on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) has resulted in a high demand for greater precision and reliable measurements from GNSS receivers. The multipath problem is the single largest source of errors in modernised G...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancement of GNSS Signal Processing and Navigation)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,305 Views
10 Pages

Development of a Custom GNSS Software Receiver Supporting Supercorrelation

  • Javier Gonzalo Garcia,
  • Johannes Rossouw van der Merwe,
  • Paulo Esteves,
  • Dana Jamal,
  • Samir Benmendil,
  • Chris Higgins,
  • Rose Grey,
  • Eugene Coetzee and
  • Ramsey Faragher

29 October 2023

Mitigating multipath interference is one of the biggest challenges in radio positioning. The Supercorrelation™ technology developed via Focal Point Positioning (FPP) suppresses multipath interference by performing long coherent integration whil...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of European Navigation Conference ENC 2023)

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