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With the broadcast of BDS-3 and Galileo four-frequency signals, the multi-frequency and multi-system tightly coupled positioning method provides more possibilities for vehicular positioning in urban environments. At present, most of the studies on multi-frequency and multi-system mainly focus on static or baseline solutions, and there are few studies on the urban dynamic environment. In this paper, based on the triple-frequency GPS\/BDS-2\/INS tightly coupled positioning model, the BDS-3 four-frequency observation is introduced to conduct a preliminary study on the performance of GPS\/BDS-2\/BDS-3\/INS tightly coupled positioning. Taking into account the positioning accuracy and calculation efficiency of the tightly coupled positioning, single epoch extra-wide-lane\/wide-lane (EWL\/WL) observation is used to participate in the modeling of tightly coupled positioning. The EWL\/WL ambiguity is solved by the geometry-free (GF) method, in which triple-frequency carrier ambiguity resolution (TCAR) and four-frequency carrier ambiguity resolution (FCAR) are used for triple-frequency and four-frequency observations, respectively. Finally, the positioning performance of the tightly coupled method in this paper is evaluated through vehicular experiment. The experimental results show that in the urban dynamic environment, due to the higher quality of the linear combination of BDS-3 four-frequency, the positioning accuracy of the BDS-3\/INS tightly coupled was slightly better than that of the triple-frequency BDS-2\/INS. Compared with GPS\/BDS-2\/INS, the GPS\/BDS-2\/BDS-3\/INS tightly coupled positioning accuracy increased by 29.1% and 58.7% in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, which can realize decimeter positioning accuracy in urban environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030615","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,27]],"date-time":"2022-01-27T22:01:57Z","timestamp":1643320917000},"page":"615","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Improving GNSS\/INS Tightly Coupled Positioning by Using BDS-3 Four-Frequency Observations in Urban Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0841-7540","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chun","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuguo","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wang","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9208-0885","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fei","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liwei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Li, Q., Ai, L., Xiao, J., Hsu, L., Kamijo, S., and Gu, Y. 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