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Assessment of Swarm Kinematic Orbit Determination Using Two Different Double-Difference Methods

  • Rui Zhang,
  • Yongliang Xiong,
  • Shaoguang Xu,
  • Weiwei Chen,
  • Xinzhong Li and
  • Ban Zhao

20 May 2023

The Swarm mission aims to study the principle and change regularities of the Earth’s magnetic field. Precise orbit determination is essential to the successful implementation of the mission and relevant scientific research. This article focuses...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,053 Views
20 Pages

8 August 2019

Regional augmentation systems for a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) provide an ionospheric map correction to the user in order to remove the ionospheric delay error. Measurements are collected from multiple reference stations to estimate th...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,175 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2018

The predicted parts of ultra-rapid orbits are important for (near) real-time Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) precise applications; and there is little research on GPS/GLONASS/BDS/Galileo/QZSS five-system ultra-rapid precise orbit determinat...

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  • Open Access
884 Views
22 Pages

1 June 2025

Based on sample data from A-share listed heavy polluters from 2012 to 2021, this paper adopts the double-difference method to explore the influence of the construction of national pilot zone for ecological conservation on the ESG performance of heavi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,496 Views
15 Pages

23 October 2013

Double difference seismic tomography was performed using travel time data from a carbon sequestration site at the Aneth oil field in southeast Utah as part of a Department of Energy initiative on monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) of sequ...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,112 Views
37 Pages

22 September 2024

Based on the theory of regional innovation niches, this study calculates the resilience of regional innovation ecosystems and constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system for regional artificial intelligence development, resulting in a panel da...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,761 Views
14 Pages

RapidScat Cross-Calibration Using the Double Difference Technique

  • Josko Zec,
  • W. Linwood Jones,
  • Ruaa Alsabah and
  • Ali Al-Sabbagh

12 November 2017

RapidScat is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ku-Band scatterometer that was operated onboard the International Space Station between September 2014 and August 2016 when the mission effectively ended after an irrecoverable instr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,224 Views
16 Pages

Sequential Ambiguity Resolution Method for Poorly-Observed GNSS Data

  • Haiyang Li,
  • Guigen Nie,
  • Shuguang Wu and
  • Yuefan He

27 May 2021

Integer ambiguity resolution is required to obtain precise coordinates for the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). Poorly observed data cause unfixed integer ambiguity and reduce the coordinate accuracy. Previous studies mostly used denoise fi...

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  • Open Access
93 Citations
8,645 Views
18 Pages

Research on Digital Inclusive Finance Promoting the Integration of Rural Three-Industry

  • Heping Ge,
  • Bowen Li,
  • Decai Tang,
  • Hao Xu and
  • Valentina Boamah

The development of digital financial inclusion helps create a healthy rural financial ecological environment and plays an important role in integrating rural tertiary industries. This paper incorporates digital financial inclusion into the rural tert...

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  • Open Access
1,149 Views
26 Pages

Solving Integer Ambiguity Based on an Improved Ant Lion Algorithm

  • Wuzheng Guo,
  • Yuanfa Ji,
  • Xiyan Sun and
  • Xizi Jia

17 February 2025

In GNSS, a double-difference carrier phase observation model is typically employed, and high-accuracy position coordinates can be obtained by resolving the integer ambiguity within the model through algorithmic processing. To address the challenge of...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,288 Views
23 Pages

4 April 2024

This study investigates the long-term stability of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) moderate-resolution Thermal Emissive Bands (M TEBs; M12–M16) covering a period from Febru...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
669 Views
18 Pages

Conventional methods for train positioning and integrity monitoring are limited by their dependence on trackside infrastructure. This reliance on fixed equipment has prompted the investigation of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) as a more...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,304 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2016

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most widely used navigation system in land vehicle applications. In urban areas, the GPS suffers from insufficient signal strength, multipath propagation and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors, so it thus becom...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,544 Views
20 Pages

1 March 2024

In recent years, China’s transportation infrastructure has undergone significant changes. High-speed rail, as a new and favored mode of transportation, offers travelers convenience, efficiency, and punctuality, replacing many high-pollution tra...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,016 Views
19 Pages

28 July 2023

In order to develop the real economy and solve the problems of enterprise financing and lending, banks should increase their support for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). The People’s Bank of China introduced two direct monetary policy...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,011 Views
29 Pages

Investigation of the Thiva 2020–2021 Earthquake Sequence Using Seismological Data and Space Techniques

  • George Kaviris,
  • Vasilis Kapetanidis,
  • Ioannis Spingos,
  • Nikolaos Sakellariou,
  • Andreas Karakonstantis,
  • Vasiliki Kouskouna,
  • Panagiotis Elias,
  • Andreas Karavias,
  • Vassilis Sakkas and
  • Issaak Parcharidis
  • + 5 authors

3 March 2022

We investigate an earthquake sequence involving an Mw = 4.6 mainshock on 2 December 2020, followed by a seismic swarm in July–October 2021 near Thiva, Central Greece, to identify the activated structures and understand its triggering mechanisms...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,296 Views
20 Pages

9 May 2024

Rural entrepreneurship has injected new vitality into the comprehensive realization of rural revitalization, and exploring the impact of urban innovation and development on rural entrepreneurship is of great significance in promoting the comprehensiv...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,724 Views
18 Pages

Improved Medium Baseline RTK Positioning Performance Based on BDS/Galileo/GPS Triple-Frequency-Only Observations

  • Xifeng Dang,
  • Xiao Yin,
  • Yize Zhang,
  • Chengfa Gao,
  • Jincheng Wu and
  • Yongqiang Liu

1 November 2023

With the global service of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), the Galileo Navigation Satellite System (Galileo), and the modernization of the Global Positioning System (GPS), achieving high-precision positioning through triple-frequency-on...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,032 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2024

Haiyang-1D (HY-1D) is the second operational satellite in China’s Haiyang-1 series of satellites, carrying the Chinese Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (COCTS) to provide ocean color and temperature observations. The radiometric calibration...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,295 Views
17 Pages

11 February 2022

In this paper, we apply a general family of basic (or q-) polynomials with double q-binomial coefficients as well as some homogeneous q-operators in order to construct several q-difference equations involving seven variables. We derive the Rogers typ...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,067 Views
19 Pages

Formal Uncertainty and Dispersion of Single and Double Difference Models for GNSS-Based Attitude Determination

  • Wen Chen,
  • Chao Yu,
  • Danan Dong,
  • Miaomiao Cai,
  • Feng Zhou,
  • Zhiren Wang,
  • Lei Zhang and
  • Zhengqi Zheng

20 February 2017

With multi-antenna synchronized global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, the single difference (SD) between two antennas is able to eliminate both satellite and receiver clock error, thus it becomes necessary to reconsider the equivalency...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,401 Views
16 Pages

Fuzzy Numerical Solution via Finite Difference Scheme of Wave Equation in Double Parametrical Fuzzy Number Form

  • Maryam Almutairi,
  • Hamzeh Zureigat,
  • Ahmad Izani Ismail and
  • Ali Fareed Jameel

21 March 2021

The use of fuzzy partial differential equations has become an important tool in which uncertainty or vagueness exists to model real-life problems. In this article, two numerical techniques based on finite difference schemes that are the centered time...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,086 Views
20 Pages

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is suitable for indoor positioning owing to its high resolution and penetration. However, the current UWB positioning methods not only fail to fully analyze errors, but do not have the ability to eliminate gross and la...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
13,302 Views
15 Pages

2 March 2015

In order to increase the operating speed of a CMOS image sensor (CIS), a new technique of digital correlated double sampling (CDS) is described. In general, the fixed pattern noise (FPN) of a CIS has been reduced with the subtraction algorithm betwee...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,787 Views
18 Pages

Noises in Double-Differenced GNSS Observations

  • Dominik Prochniewicz,
  • Jacek Kudrys and
  • Kamil Maciuk

23 February 2022

Precise data processing from the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) reference station network is mainly based on a combination of double-differenced carrier phase and code observations. This approach allows most of the measurement errors to b...

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1 Citations
1,148 Views
26 Pages

Amidst the dual challenges of escalating ecological environmental pressures and economic transformation globally, green innovation emerges as a pivotal pathway toward achieving high-quality sustainable development. To elucidate how digitalization and...

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1 Citations
731 Views
28 Pages

2 October 2025

Radiometric consistency across satellite platforms is fundamental to producing high-quality Climate Data Records (CDRs). Because different cross-calibration methods have distinct advantages and limitations, comparative evaluation is necessary to ensu...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,308 Views
25 Pages

10 January 2025

This study uses the implementation of the watershed compensation policy as a quasi-natural experiment and selects a sample of 53 cities located within the four major watersheds from 2005 to 2022. By employing a staggered difference-in-differences mod...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,859 Views
19 Pages

Improvement of Multi-GNSS Precision and Success Rate Using Realistic Stochastic Model of Observations

  • Farinaz Mirmohammadian,
  • Jamal Asgari,
  • Sandra Verhagen and
  • Alireza Amiri-Simkooei

23 December 2021

With the advancement of multi-constellation and multi-frequency global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), more observations are available for high precision positioning applications. Although there is a lot of progress in the GNSS world, achieving...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,410 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2019

As an important type of centrifugal pump, the double-suction pump has been widely used due to its high efficiency region and large flow rate. In the present study, the complex flow in volute of a double-suction centrifugal pump is investigated by num...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,896 Views
20 Pages

Contemporaneous Thick- and Thin-Skinned Seismotectonics in the External Zagros: The Case of the 2021 Fin Doublet, Iran

  • Zeinab Golshadi,
  • Nicola Angelo Famiglietti,
  • Riccardo Caputo,
  • Saeed SoltaniMoghadam,
  • Sadra Karimzadeh,
  • Antonino Memmolo,
  • Luigi Falco and
  • Annamaria Vicari

7 June 2023

In this work, we propose a geodetic model for the seismic sequence, with doublet earthquakes, that occurred in Bandar Abbas, Iran, in November 2021. A dataset of Sentinel-1 images, processed using the InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar)...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,192 Views
24 Pages

The 27 September 2021 Earthquake in Central Crete (Greece)—Detailed Analysis of the Earthquake Sequence and Indications for Contemporary Arc-Parallel Extension to the Hellenic Arc

  • Emmanuel Vassilakis,
  • George Kaviris,
  • Vasilis Kapetanidis,
  • Elena Papageorgiou,
  • Michael Foumelis,
  • Aliki Konsolaki,
  • Stelios Petrakis,
  • Christos P. Evangelidis,
  • John Alexopoulos and
  • Gerassimos-Akis Tselentis
  • + 2 authors

9 March 2022

The Arkalochori village in central Crete was hit by a large earthquake (Mw = 6.0) on 27 September 2021, causing casualties, injuries, and severe damage to the infrastructure. Due to the absence of apparent surface rupture and the initial focal mechan...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,411 Views
19 Pages

Multi-GNSS-Weighted Interpolated Tropospheric Delay to Improve Long-Baseline RTK Positioning

  • Farinaz Mirmohammadian,
  • Jamal Asgari,
  • Sandra Verhagen and
  • Alireza Amiri-Simkooei

26 July 2022

Until now, RTK (real-time kinematic) and NRTK (Network-based RTK) have been the most popular cm-level accurate positioning approaches based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals in real-time. The tropospheric delay is a major source of...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,457 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of Network RTK Positioning Performance Based on BDS-3 New Signal System

  • Pengxu Wang,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Zhixin Yang,
  • Bao Shu,
  • Xintong Xu and
  • Guigen Nie

21 December 2021

The BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS-3) has been deployed and provides positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services for users all over the world. On the basis of BDS-2 system signals, BDS-3 adds B1C, B2a, B2b, and other signals to realiz...

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1 Citations
1,150 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2024

The pilot waste classification policy is pivotal in tackling the challenges associated with the decarbonization of solid waste disposal in China; nevertheless, the efficacy of these pilot policies continues to be a topic of ongoing debate. This study...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,160 Views
15 Pages

25 April 2019

Conventional relative kinematic positioning is difficult to be applied in the polar region of Earth since there is a very sparse distribution of reference stations, while precise point positioning (PPP), using data of a stand-alone receiver, is recog...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,588 Views
22 Pages

15 September 2021

Capacitive energy extraction based on double layer expansion (CDLE) is a renewable method of harvesting energy from the salinity difference between seawater and freshwater. It is based on the change in properties of the electric double layer (EDL) fo...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,886 Views
19 Pages

8 October 2024

This study uses four dimensions, namely social resilience, economic resilience, infrastructure resilience, and ecological resilience, to construct an index system for urban resilience. The subject data came from the panel data of 282 prefecture-level...

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878 Views
12 Pages

28 August 2025

Air filtering is one of the most effective methods to enhance indoor air quality, and the filtration performance and usage form are the main parameters that affect its widespread promotion. In this paper, we compare the filtration performance of sing...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,508 Views
15 Pages

In an era of global economic slowdown, effectively stimulating urban economic development has become a critical challenge for governments around the world. Based on the panel data of 280 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2017, this study...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,163 Views
11 Pages

Double-Peaked Mid-Infrared Generation Based on Intracavity Difference Frequency Generation

  • Kaifeng Wang,
  • Xiao Li,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Weihong Hua,
  • Kai Han and
  • Zefeng Wang

16 November 2022

It was reported that a double-peaked mid-infrared laser was generated based on an intracavity difference frequency generation (DFG). The double-peaked pump source was achieved by suppressing the intensity at the central wavelength of the pump source....

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,641 Views
19 Pages

Given the rural revitalization strategy in the new era, agricultural development is faced with the dual constraints of resources and the environment. Promoting the green development of agriculture is one of the important missions to solve major socia...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,958 Views
16 Pages

Audio dual compression detection is an important part of audio forensics. It is of great significance to judge whether the audio has been falsified and forged. This study found that the advanced audio coding (AAC) audio scale factor gradually decreas...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,492 Views
8 Pages

Double-Frequency-Shift Acousto-Optic Modulator with Controllable Pulse Pair Frequency Difference

  • Yuhe Wang,
  • Yudong Lian,
  • Shiwei Han,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Xuan Qi,
  • Zhenxu Bai,
  • Yulei Wang and
  • Zhiwei Lu

12 October 2021

A scheme for controlling the frequency difference of output pulse pair with double frequency shift loops is proposed. The frequency shift system includes two loop elements of 20 and 200 MHz. The first one carries out a single selective positive frequ...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,481 Views
15 Pages

29 March 2022

In this paper, a double pulse gas metal arc welding (DP-GMAW) for an AA6061-T6 aluminum alloy based on fewer basic welding parameters than the traditional DP-GMAW is proposed. This study compared the difference in pulse base currents (ΔIb) and...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,573 Views
13 Pages

Anatomic versus Low Tibial Tunnel in Double-Bundle Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Clinical and Radiologic Outcomes with a Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up

  • Chung-Yu Chen,
  • Chen-Heng Hsu,
  • Poyu Chen,
  • Kuo-Yao Hsu,
  • Cheng-Pang Yang,
  • Huan Sheu,
  • Shih-Sheng Chang and
  • Chih-Hao Chiu

27 March 2024

There is currently no consensus on the optimal placement of the tibial tunnel for double-bundle posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) reconstruction. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and radiologic outcomes of double-bundle PCL recon...

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14 Citations
4,683 Views
10 Pages

13 January 2020

The aim of this study was to determine the gait features that are most suitable for the quantified assessment of the severity of Parkinson’s disease (PD). This study computed the mean and variance of the four phases of gait intervals, i.e., str...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,319 Views
17 Pages

Response of Multi-Incidence Angle Polarimetric RADARSAT-2 Data to Herbaceous Vegetation Features in the Lower Paraná River Floodplain, Argentina

  • Natalia Soledad Morandeira,
  • Matías Ernesto Barber,
  • Francisco Matías Grings,
  • Frank Ahern,
  • Patricia Kandus and
  • Brian Brisco

27 June 2021

Wetland ecosystems play a key role in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. In emergent vegetation targets, the occurrence of double-bounce scatter is indicative of the presence of water and can be valuable for hydrological monitoring. Double-bounc...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
9,715 Views
15 Pages

A New Wide-Band Double-Negative Metamaterial for C- and S-Band Applications

  • Md Ikbal Hossain,
  • Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque,
  • Mohammad Tariqul Islam and
  • Mohammad Habib Ullah

25 December 2014

A new design and analysis of a wide-band double-negative metamaterial, considering a frequency range of 0.5 to 7 GHz, is presented in this paper. Four different unit cells with varying design parameters are analyzed to evaluate the effects of the uni...

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5 Citations
1,335 Views
37 Pages

30 May 2024

As the world’s largest emerging market country, not only has China faced the contradiction between its huge population size and per capita energy scarcity for a long time, but the rigid constraints brought by energy poverty have also plagued th...

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