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The authors assess the effects of seasonal signals, weight matrix, intermittent offsets, and Helmert transformation parameters on the noise analyses. Different solutions are obtained using the simulated and real position time series of 647 global stations and power law noise derived from the residuals of stacking solutions are compared. Since the true noise in the position time series is not available except for the simulated data, the authors paid most attention to the noise difference caused by the variable factors. First, parameterization of seasonal signals in the time series can reduce the colored noise and cause the spectral indexes to be closer to zero (much \u201cwhiter\u201d). Meanwhile, the additional offset parameters can also change the colored noise to be much \u201cwhiter\u201d and more offsets parameters in the deterministic model leading to spectral indexes closer to zero. Second, the weight matrices derived from the covariance information can induce more colored noise than the unit weight matrix for both real and simulated data, and larger biases of annual amplitude of simulated data are attributed to the covariance information. Third, the Helmert transformation parameters (three translation, three rotation, and one scale) considered in the model show the largest impacts on the power law noise (medians of 0.4 mm\u2212k\/4 and 0.06 for the amplitude and spectral index, respectively). Finally, the transformation parameters and full-weight matrix used together in the stacking model can induce different patterns for the horizontal and vertical components, respectively, which are related to different dominant factors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10101584","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,2]],"date-time":"2018-10-02T11:30:02Z","timestamp":1538479802000},"page":"1584","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Impacts on Noise Analyses of GNSS Position Time Series Caused by Seasonal Signal, Weight Matrix, Offset, and Helmert Transformation Parameters"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8096-1191","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guo","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Qile","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan University, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1039-5937","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Na","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Jingnan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan University, No. 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"117","DOI":"10.1029\/2004JB003556","article-title":"Surface mass redistribution inversion from global GPS deformation and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravity data","volume":"110","author":"Kusche","year":"2005","journal-title":"J. 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