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The idea of joints across the signal channels from the same carrier frequency and even across different frequencies has been presented in many studies for tracking purposes. Carrier joint tracking is required on the premise that the frequency and phase relationship between signals are nominal values, and the bias of carrier characteristics between signals is drowned in noise as the signal reaches the ground, which requires high-gain receiving equipment to restore the original signal. The space signal-quality monitoring and evaluation system built by the National Timing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is based on a 40 m dish antenna, which can automatically track a single satellite and achieve a high-fidelity reception of navigation signals to a certain extent, realizing fine signal quality monitoring (SQM) of GNSS satellites. Based on this platform, we discuss four types of time distributions of the combined signals among different signal components and provide a method to estimate the carrier characteristic bias between GNSS signals. We derived the correction method of carrier characteristic bias in the joint reception by the joint tracking mathematical model. Under the conditions of narrow correlation and unobstructed case, the carrier characteristic deviation does not vary significantly with the correlator interval and the satellite elevation angle. Based on the results of stability analysis, it is recommended that the receivers should update the carrier frequency bias correction number of the intra-frequency signal and carrier phase bias correction number of the intra-frequency signal monthly. The carrier phase deviation correction number of the inter-frequency signal is performed daily. The measured data from satellites show that the phase accumulation error of the joint tracking carrier loop can be eliminated to achieve long-term stable tracking after frequency bias correction. After the carrier phase bias correction, the joint positioning accuracy of the B2a and B2b signals was improved by 0.81%, and those of the B1C, L1C, E1C, and B2a signals were improved by 0.35%, 0.04%, 0.20%, and 0.11%, respectively. The positioning accuracy improvement effect of inter-frequency signals was greater than that of intra-frequency signals after carrier phase correction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15041051","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,15]],"date-time":"2023-02-15T05:12:26Z","timestamp":1676437946000},"page":"1051","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Carrier Characteristic Bias Estimation between GNSS Signals and Its Calibration in High-Precision Joint Positioning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yao","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precision Navigation and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yongnan","family":"Rao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precision Navigation and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7892-5762","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xue","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Information Sensing, XIDIAN University, Xi\u2019an 713300, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Decai","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precision Navigation and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huihui","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precision Navigation and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ning","family":"Ji","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Precision Navigation and Timing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi\u2019an 710600, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Yuan, H., Lv, J., Yu, Y., and Chang, J. 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