Fundamental Research (Nov 2021)
A commentary of Hyper-accurate position in MIT Technology Review 2021
Abstract
The positioning accuracy improvement of satellite navigation system support the development of industries related to high accuracy positioning. The BeiDou global satellite navigation system (BDS-3) started providing full-scale global services in 2020. BDS-3 provides meter-level standard positioning service, and decimeter- and centimeter-level positioning services with the precise point positioning (PPP) and the real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning technology. Moreover, millimeter-level positioning results can be achieved through ground-based differential positioning. These hyper-accurate positioning technologies will strongly support the development of autonomous driving, precision agriculture, geological hazard monitoring, etc.①① Original source in Chinese: Y. Yang, X. Ren, Hyper-accurate positioning, Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China. 35 (3) (2021) 410-412.