Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS Aiding

China developed its Digital Television (DTV) standard in 2006, known as Digital Television Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB), which employs time-domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) as the modulation method. In contrast to Global Navigation Satellite Syst...

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Main Authors: Zhenhang Jiao, Liang Chen, Xiangchen Lu, Zhaoliang Liu, Xin Zhou, Yuan Zhuang, Guangyi Guo
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/2/423
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author Zhenhang Jiao
Liang Chen
Xiangchen Lu
Zhaoliang Liu
Xin Zhou
Yuan Zhuang
Guangyi Guo
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Liang Chen
Xiangchen Lu
Zhaoliang Liu
Xin Zhou
Yuan Zhuang
Guangyi Guo
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description China developed its Digital Television (DTV) standard in 2006, known as Digital Television Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB), which employs time-domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) as the modulation method. In contrast to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), DTV signals have higher transmitting power, wider coverage, larger bandwidth, and fixed transmitter location. This paper explores the positioning performance of DTMB signals, and the potential to improve GNSS positioning accuracy in urban environments. Specifically, a solution is proposed, and a software-defined radio receiver is developed for wireless localization. Without changing the current signal structure, the pseudorandom noise (PN) sequences in the signal are used for signal acquisition and carrier phase ranging. The carrier phase of the first arrived path is extracted by the least squares matching pursuit method. Both static and dynamic field tests were conducted to verify the proposed ranging and positioning method. Centimeter-level ranging accuracy was achieved in the static scenario, while meter-level ranging accuracy was achieved in the dynamic scenario. As one possible application, the proposed ranging method was combined with GPS pseudorange measurements to achieve higher accuracy position results in an urban pedestrian scenario, especially when there is only a limited number of visible satellites.
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spelling doaj.art-637321a61cfa4430b4ab9b9b087fbc522023-12-01T00:20:34ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922023-01-0115242310.3390/rs15020423Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS AidingZhenhang Jiao0Liang Chen1Xiangchen Lu2Zhaoliang Liu3Xin Zhou4Yuan Zhuang5Guangyi Guo6State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, ChinaChina developed its Digital Television (DTV) standard in 2006, known as Digital Television Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting (DTMB), which employs time-domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) as the modulation method. In contrast to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), DTV signals have higher transmitting power, wider coverage, larger bandwidth, and fixed transmitter location. This paper explores the positioning performance of DTMB signals, and the potential to improve GNSS positioning accuracy in urban environments. Specifically, a solution is proposed, and a software-defined radio receiver is developed for wireless localization. Without changing the current signal structure, the pseudorandom noise (PN) sequences in the signal are used for signal acquisition and carrier phase ranging. The carrier phase of the first arrived path is extracted by the least squares matching pursuit method. Both static and dynamic field tests were conducted to verify the proposed ranging and positioning method. Centimeter-level ranging accuracy was achieved in the static scenario, while meter-level ranging accuracy was achieved in the dynamic scenario. As one possible application, the proposed ranging method was combined with GPS pseudorange measurements to achieve higher accuracy position results in an urban pedestrian scenario, especially when there is only a limited number of visible satellites.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/2/423carrier phase rangingdigital television terrestrial multimedia broadcasting (DTMB)least squares matching pursuit (LS-MP)urban pedestrian localization
spellingShingle Zhenhang Jiao
Liang Chen
Xiangchen Lu
Zhaoliang Liu
Xin Zhou
Yuan Zhuang
Guangyi Guo
Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS Aiding
Remote Sensing
carrier phase ranging
digital television terrestrial multimedia broadcasting (DTMB)
least squares matching pursuit (LS-MP)
urban pedestrian localization
title Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS Aiding
title_full Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS Aiding
title_fullStr Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS Aiding
title_full_unstemmed Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS Aiding
title_short Carrier Phase Ranging with DTMB Signals for Urban Pedestrian Localization and GNSS Aiding
title_sort carrier phase ranging with dtmb signals for urban pedestrian localization and gnss aiding
topic carrier phase ranging
digital television terrestrial multimedia broadcasting (DTMB)
least squares matching pursuit (LS-MP)
urban pedestrian localization
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/2/423
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