Xvt.cpp

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#pragma ident "$Id: Xvt.cpp 70 2006-08-01 18:36:21Z ehagen $"



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#include "GeoidModel.hpp"
#include "Xvt.hpp"

namespace gpstk
{
   
      /*
       * Function to find the range and position from a ground
       * location, rxPos, to the spacecraft position (*this).x.
       *
       * Use the pseudorange corrected for SV clock effects to get a
       * rough time of flight (dt).  Account directly for Earth
       * rotation, then compute a rough receiver bias by differencing
       * the initial time of flight with the new estimate.  Then
       * correct the rotation by a small amount.
       */
   double Xvt :: preciseRho(const ECEF& rxPos,
                            const GeoidModel& geoid,
                            double correction) const 
      throw()
   {
         // Compute initial time of flight estimate using the
         // geometric range at transmit time.  This fails to account
         // for the rotation of the earth, but should be good to
         // within about 40 m
      double sr1 = rxPos.slantRange(x);
      double dt = sr1 / geoid.c();

         // compute rotation angle in the time of signal transit
      double rotation_angle = -geoid.angVelocity() * dt;

         // rotate original GS coordinates to new values to correct for
         // rotation of ECEF frame
         // Ref: Satellite Geodesy, Gunter Seeber, 1993, pg 291  and the 
         // ICD-GPS-200 sheet 102 May 1993 version
         //   xnew[0]=xg[0]*cos(rotation_angle)-xg[1]*sin(rotation_angle);
         //   xnew[1]=xg[1]*cos(rotation_angle)+xg[0]*sin(rotation_angle);
         //   xnew[2]=xg[2];
         // since cosine and sine are small, approximate by the first
         // order terms in an expansion.
      Triple xnew;
      for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
      {
         xnew[0] = x[0] - x[1] * rotation_angle;
         xnew[1] = x[1] + x[0] * rotation_angle;
         xnew[2] = x[2];

            // Compute geometric slant range from ground station to
            // the rotated new coord's
         sr1 = rxPos.slantRange(xnew);
      
            // Recompute the time of flight (dt) based on PR, with the
            // time of flight based on geometric range.  Note that
            // this is a really unneeded, in that the change in PR is
            // < 40 m, hence the change in tof is < 20 ns
         dt = sr1 / geoid.c();
      
            // Compute new rotation in this time 
         rotation_angle = -geoid.angVelocity() * dt;  
      }
         // Account for SV clock drift and other factors
      double rho = sr1 - (dtime * geoid.c()) - correction;
      return rho;
   } // end of preciseRho()
} 

std::ostream& operator<<( std::ostream& s, 
                          const gpstk::Xvt& xvt )
{
   s << "x:" << xvt.x
     << ", v:" << xvt.v
     << ", clk bias:" << xvt.dtime
     << ", clk drift:" << xvt.ddtime;
   return s;
}

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