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However, this model faces challenges due to the large number of estimated parameters, resulting in strong correlations between state parameters, such as clock errors, ionospheric delays, and hardware biases. This can slow down the convergence time and impede ambiguity resolution. We propose two methods to improve the triple-frequency uncombined PPP-AR model by integrating ambiguity constraints. The first approach makes use of the resolved ambiguities from dual-frequency ionosphere-free combined PPP-AR processing and incorporates them as constraints into triple-frequency uncombined PPP-AR processing. While this approach requires the implementation of two filters, increasing computational demands and thereby limiting its feasibility for real-time applications, it effectively reduces parameter correlations and facilitates ambiguity resolution in post-processing. The second approach incorporates fixed extra-wide-lane (EWL) and wide-lane (WL) ambiguities directly, allowing for rapid convergence, and is well suited for real-time processing. Results show that, compared to the uncombined PPP-AR model, integrating N1 and N2 constraints reduces averaged convergence time from 8.2 to 6.4 min horizontally and 13.9 to 10.7 min vertically in the float solution. On the other hand, integrating EWL and WL ambiguity constraints reduces the horizontal convergence to 5.9 min in the float solution and to 4.6 min for horizontal and 9.7 min for vertical convergence in the fixed solution. Both methods significantly enhance the ambiguity resolution in the uncombined triple-frequency PPP model, increasing the validated fixing rate from approximately 80% to 89%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16234537","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,3]],"date-time":"2024-12-03T11:48:56Z","timestamp":1733226536000},"page":"4537","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Improving Performance of Uncombined PPP-AR Model with Ambiguity Constraints"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0253-9520","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yichen","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany"},{"name":"Bosch Research, 31139 Hildesheim, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0801-8259","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Urs","family":"Hugentobler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0143-835X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bingbing","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,3]]},"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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