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This characteristic is very interesting, especially if used in hard-urban environments or in hard conditions where satellite visibility is low. The goal of this research is to investigate the contribution of the GLONASS constellation for  mass-market receivers in order to analyse the performance in real time (Network Real Time Kinematic\u2014NRTK positioning) with post-processing approaches. Under these conditions, it is possible to confirm that mass-market sensors could be a valid alternative to a more expensive receiver for a large number of surveying applications, but with low cost hardware the contribution of the GLONASS constellation for fixing ambiguities is useless, if not dangerous.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s141222159","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,11,25]],"date-time":"2014-11-25T11:01:31Z","timestamp":1416913291000},"page":"22159-22179","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["GPS &amp; GLONASS Mass-Market Receivers: Positioning Performances and Peculiarities"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9646-523X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paolo","family":"Dabove","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Politecnico di Torino\u2014DIATI Department, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin 10129, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ambrogio","family":"Manzino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Politecnico di Torino\u2014DIATI Department, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Turin 10129, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.1007\/s12518-014-0122-3","article-title":"GNSS network products for post-processing positioning: limitations and peculiarities","volume":"6","author":"Dabove","year":"2014","journal-title":"Appl. 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