A multipath S-curve bias(MSCB)method to isolate multipath signals based on S-curve bias(SCB)is proposed to solve the complexity of extracting the multipath component from the signals of navigation satellite. A model for received signals that contain multipath components is built. Then both the relationship between SCB and multipath amplitude and the relationship between phase and delay are analyzed. Two different SCB curves are obtained under different multipath delay conditions. The multipath parameters is finally estimated from the turning points of the SCB curves. Experimental results based on Beidou and GPS signals show that MSCB effectively extracts characteristic parameters of multipath component(or multipath like)from the ground or satellite itself
and the multipath resolution is improved from meter to decimeter or even centimeter level
and that the standard deviation of MSCB estimation is only one-sixth of that derived from the traditional multipath estimation delay locked loop algorithm. It is concluded that MSCB may provide a new approach to model and to analyze multipath signals in the future.
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