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Among the current SRP models, the ECOM and box-wing models are widely used in the International GNSS Service (IGS) community. However, the performance of different models varies over different GPS satellites. In this study, we investigate the performances of different SRP models, including the box-wing and adjustable box-wing as a priori models, and ECOM1 and ECOM2 as parameterization models, in the GPS POD solution from 2017 to 2019. Moreover, we pay special attention to the handling of the shadow factor in the SRP modeling for eclipsing satellites, which is critical to achieve high-precision POD solutions but has not yet been fully investigated. We demonstrate that, as an a priori SRP model, the adjustable box-wing has better performance than the box-wing model by up to 5 mm in the orbit day boundary discontinuity (DBD) statistics, with the largest improvement observed on the BLOCK IIR satellites using the ECOM1 as a parameterization SRP model. The box-wing model shows an insignificant orbit improvement serving as the a priori SRP model. For the eclipsing satellites, the three-dimensional (3D) root mean square (RMS) values of orbit DBD are improved when the shadow factor is applied only in the D direction (pointing toward to Sun) than that in the three directions (D, Y, and B) in the satellite frame. Different SRP models have comparable performance in terms of the Earth rotation parameter (ERP) agreement with the IERS EOP 14C04 product, whereas the magnitude of the length of day (LoD) annual signal is reduced when the shadow factor is applied in the D direction than in the three directions. This study clarifies how the shadow factor should be applied in the GPS POD solution and demonstrates that the a priori adjustable box-wing model combined with ECOM1 is more suitable for high-precision GPS POD solutions, which is useful for the further GNSS data analysis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13173388","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,31]],"date-time":"2021-08-31T21:59:45Z","timestamp":1630447185000},"page":"3388","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["A Comparative Study on the Solar Radiation Pressure Modeling in GPS Precise Orbit Determination"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Longjiang","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics, Liaoning Technical University (LNTU), Fuxin 123000, China"},{"name":"German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), 14473 Potsdam, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7060-5342","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jungang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), 14473 Potsdam, Germany"},{"name":"Institut f\u00fcr Geod\u00e4sie und Geoinformationstechnik, Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104-106, 10553 Berlin, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8605-6536","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huizhong","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics, Liaoning Technical University (LNTU), Fuxin 123000, China"}]},{"given":"Maorong","family":"Ge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), 14473 Potsdam, Germany"},{"name":"Institut f\u00fcr Geod\u00e4sie und Geoinformationstechnik, Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104-106, 10553 Berlin, Germany"}]},{"given":"Aigong","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics, Liaoning Technical University (LNTU), Fuxin 123000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5443-0370","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Harald","family":"Schuh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), 14473 Potsdam, Germany"},{"name":"Institut f\u00fcr Geod\u00e4sie und Geoinformationstechnik, Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104-106, 10553 Berlin, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6109","DOI":"10.1002\/2016JB013098","article-title":"ITRF2014: A new release of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame modeling nonlinear station motions","volume":"121","author":"Altamimi","year":"2016","journal-title":"J. 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