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The time synchronization accuracy between stations in the eLoran system has improved, providing conditions for eLoran pseudorange positioning. The pseudorange positioning of eLoran is a nonlinear least-squares problem and the location of the eLoran transmitting stations may cause the above problem to be non-convex. This makes the conventional pseudorange positioning al-gorithm strongly depend on the initial value when solving the eLoran pseudorange positioning. We propose a shrink-branch-bound (SBB) algorithm to solve the eLoran pseudorange positioning initialization problem. The algorithm first uses a shrink method to reduce the search space of the position estimator. Then, optimization is performed using a branch and bound algorithm within the shrunk region, where a trust region reflective algorithm is used for the lower bound process. The algorithm can help the receiver to complete the initial positioning without any initial value information. Simulation experiments verify that the algorithm has a success rate of more than 99.5% in solving the initialization problem of eLoran pseudorange positioning, and can be used as an initialization algorithm for pseudorange positioning problems for eLoran or other long-range terrestrial-based radio navigation system.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14081781","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,7]],"date-time":"2022-04-07T21:08:22Z","timestamp":1649365702000},"page":"1781","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A Shrink-Branch-Bound Algorithm for eLoran Pseudorange Positioning Initialization"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Kaiqi","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precise Positioning and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiangbin","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precise Positioning and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7534-5706","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenhe","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precise Positioning and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7839-1502","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chaozhong","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precise Positioning and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precise Positioning and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shifeng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precise Positioning and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yu","family":"Hua","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precise Positioning and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6864","DOI":"10.48084\/etasr.3908","article-title":"Complexity and Limitations of GNSS Signal Reception in Highly Obstructed Enviroments","volume":"11","author":"Hussain","year":"2021","journal-title":"Eng. 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