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Ignoring SDBs that can reach up to 0.66 cycles and 10 ns in Melbourne-W\u00fcbbena (MW) and ionosphere-free (IF) combinations can negatively affect phase bias estimation. In this contribution, we investigate the SDBs and evaluate the impacts on wide-lane (WL) and narrow-lane (NL) phase bias estimations, and further propose an approach to eliminating these SDBs to improve phase bias estimation. Based on a large data set of 302 multi-global navigation satellite system (GNSS) experiment (MGEX) stations, including 5 receiver brands, we analyze the characteristics of these SDBs The SDB characteristics of different receiver types for different GNSS systems differ from each other. Compared to the global positioning system (GPS) and BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS), SDBs of Galileo are not significant; those of BDS-3 are significantly superior to BDS-2; Septentrio (SEPT) receivers show the most excellent consistency among all receiver types. Then, we apply the corresponding corrections to phase bias estimation for GPS, Galileo and BDS. The experimental results reveal that the calibration can greatly improve the performance of phase bias estimation. For WL phase biases estimation, the consistencies of WL phase biases among different networks for GPS, Galileo, BDS-2 and BDS-3 improve by 89%, 77%, 76% and 78%, respectively. There are scarcely any improvements of the fixing rates for Galileo due to its significantly small SDBs, while for GPS, BDS-2 and BDS-3, the WL ambiguity fixing rates can improve greatly by 13%, 27% and 14% after SDB calibrations with improvements of WL ambiguity fixing rates, the corresponding NL ambiguity fixing rates can further increase greatly, which can reach approximately 16%, 27% and 22%, respectively. Additionally, after the calibration, both WL and NL phase bias series become more stable. The standard deviations (STDs) of WL phase bias series for GPS and BDS can improve by more than 46%, while those of NL phase bias series can yield improvements of more than 13%. Ultimately, the calibration can make more WL and NL ambiguity residuals concentrated in ranges within \u00b10.02 cycles. All these results demonstrate that SDBs for phase bias estimation cannot be ignored and must be considered when inhomogeneous receivers are used.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14010191","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,9]],"date-time":"2022-01-09T23:06:15Z","timestamp":1641769575000},"page":"191","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Accounting for Signal Distortion Biases for Wide-Lane and Narrow-Lane Phase Bias Estimation with Inhomogeneous Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Chuang","family":"Shi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Research Institute for Frontier Science, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Satellite Navigation and Mobile Communication Fusion Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuan","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Satellite Navigation and Mobile Communication Fusion Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fu","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute for Frontier Science, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Satellite Navigation and Mobile Communication Fusion Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yong","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, 37 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Satellite Navigation and Mobile Communication Fusion Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5005","DOI":"10.1029\/96JB03860","article-title":"Precise point positioning for the efficient and robust analysis of GPS data from large networks","volume":"102","author":"Zumberge","year":"1997","journal-title":"J. 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