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Although PPP-RTK can significantly shorten the convergence time, it is still worthwhile to further investigate fast and high-precision GNSS parameter estimation to improve efficiency and productivity. In order to fully exploit the potential of GNSS for positioning applications, we herein introduce external troposphere corrections as constrained pseudo observables to the undifferenced and uncombined PPP-RTK model. Since the uncertainties of the corrections are considered in the data processing, the PPP-RTK model with the weighted tropospheric corrections is referred to as the tropospheric-weighted model. Kriging interpolation is applied to generate the tropospheric corrections, as well as the corresponding variances. The quality of the tropospheric-weighted model is assessed by the positioning Root Mean Square (RMS) errors and the convergence time to reach a 10 cm accuracy. The 90% 3D convergence time of the kinematic positioning mode of the tropospheric-weighted model is 43.5 min with the ambiguity-float solution and 21.5 min with the ambiguity-fixed solution, which are shortened by 4.5 min and 5.5 min as compared to those of the standard PPP-RTK model, respectively. As for the static positioning mode, the 90% 3D convergence time of the tropospheric-weighted model for the ambiguity-float and -fixed solutions is 25.5 min and 15 min, while the 3D convergence time is 31.5 min and 18.5 min for the standard PPP-RTK model, respectively. The results also show that the tropospheric-weighted model can still work well in a 5 cm convergence threshold.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14153747","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,5]],"date-time":"2022-08-05T02:12:39Z","timestamp":1659665559000},"page":"3747","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["External Tropospheric Corrections by Using Kriging Interpolation for Improving PPP-RTK Positioning Solutions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Chuanfeng","family":"Song","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin 123032, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3772-1966","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongyang","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics Science and Technology, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210037, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Geo-Information Engineering and Key Laboratory of Surveying and Mapping Science, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing 100830, China"}]},{"given":"Huizhong","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin 123032, China"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jiangsu Province Surveying & Mapping Engineering Institute, Nanjing 210013, China"}]},{"given":"Nan","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geomatics Science and Technology, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"651","DOI":"10.1029\/GL017i005p00651","article-title":"Geodetic Point Positioning with GPS Carrier Beat Phase Data from the CASA UNO Experiment","volume":"17","author":"Malys","year":"1990","journal-title":"Geophys. 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