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Considering the increasing demands of high-precision applications, the multipath error has become a major factor affecting the accuracy and reliability of GPS millimeter-level data processing. This paper proposes a multi-point hemispherical grid model (MHGM) to mitigate the multipath effect. In this method, the hemisphere centered on each station is divided into a grid, and the multipath error at the station is estimated based on the parameterization of the grid points. The double-differenced (DD) observed-minus-calculated (OMC) values on some previous days are treated as the observation values to model the present multipath error. Contrary to the present methods which rely much on the platform of data collection and processing, MHGM can be potentially applied to GPS data processing with the existing hardware and software. Experiments in high-multipath and low-multipath environments are designed by mounting a baffle or not. The experimental results show that MHGM is effective in mitigating the multipath effect. When using data from the previous day, an average improvement of about 63.3% in the RMS of DD OMC can be made compared with that without correction, and this is basically consistent with the sidereal filtering (SF) method which is 63.0%. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the above two methods is better than that of the empirical site model (ESM). The kinematic positioning results are also basically consistent with the statistical results of the RMS values of DD OMC. Historical data from more than one day can more explicitly and effectively model the MHGM. Furthermore, compared with the SF method, the MHGM can be used not only to mitigate the multipath error, but also to orientate the sources of the multipath error around the station, and give guidance in the physical elimination of these sources.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12183045","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,18]],"date-time":"2020-09-18T07:27:33Z","timestamp":1600414053000},"page":"3045","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["A Novel Method for Mitigating the GPS Multipath Effect Based on a Multi-Point Hemispherical Grid Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yawei","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xuan","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0248-9765","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chenlong","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8199-8076","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weiming","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yangyang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yongfeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wuhan Panda Space &amp; Time Technology Co., Ltd., 95 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jin","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"PLA the Rocket Force Command College, 145 Erqi Road, Wuhan 430012, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Montillet, J.P., and Bos, M. 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