Improvement of Single Point Positioning Accuracy by using GAGAN Satellite-Based Augmentation System in Thailand Region

Abstract

Although GAGAN satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) provides ionospheric correction service to India and surrounding areas, the correction values do not cover the entire region of Thailand and even at provided grids, they may not be sufficiently accurate. Hence, this work, we propose a local ionospheric delay estimation method based on the geo-free ionospheric delay estimation. Then the estimated ionospheric delays are applied together with the fast and long-term corrections of GAGAN SBAS to improve the positioning errors. The results show that the estimated ionospheric delays can improve the user positioning errors in terms of horizontal and vertical errors up to 0.5 and 1 meter, respectively.