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While network RTK might have different types of receivers, both for global and regional networks, different types of receiver may adopt different internal multipath mitigation methods and other techniques that result in different pseudorange characteristics, especially for a multipath. Then, the performance of wide-lane ambiguity resolution (WL AR) is affected. In this study, we first analyze and compare the characteristics of BDS dual-frequency observations for different types of receivers, including Trimble, Leica, Javad, and Septentrio, based on multipath (MP) observables, and then we assess their influence on double-differenced (DD) WL AR. The numerical results show that an obvious low-frequency component exists in MP observables of BDS geostationary earth-orbit satellites (GEOs) for Leica receivers, while its high-frequency measurement noise is very small. For geosynchronous orbit satellites (IGSOs) and medium earth-orbit satellites (MEOs), a slight fluctuation can also be observed that is similar to that of GPS satellites, except for the satellite-included code bias. In Trimble, Javad, and Septentrio receivers, the MP series are dominated by high-frequency measurement noise, both for GEOs and non-GEOs, except for satellite-included code bias. Furthermore, the characteristic of Leica receivers for BDS GEOs seriously affects WL AR and, even for a short baseline, it takes a long time for WL ambiguities to converge, or not converge for many GEO-related DD WL ambiguities, while Trimble, Javad, and Septentrio receivers perform well for short and medium baselines. Then, a time-difference method is proposed to mitigate the multipath of BDS GEOs for a Leica receiver. After applying the proposed method, WL ambiguity fixing rates of GEO-related satellite pairs are improved significantly and the convergence time is shortened from several hours to ten minutes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18103546","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,19]],"date-time":"2018-10-19T10:08:02Z","timestamp":1539943682000},"page":"3546","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Characteristics of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) Code Observations for Different Receiver Types and Their Influence on Wide-Lane Ambiguity Resolution"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Yangwei","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surveying and Mapping, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"},{"name":"Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China"},{"name":"Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhenjie","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surveying and Mapping, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"},{"name":"Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shengyue","family":"Ji","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surveying and Mapping, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"},{"name":"Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Duojie","family":"Weng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"212","DOI":"10.1179\/1752270615Y.0000000047","article-title":"A method of GPS\/BDS\/GLONASS combined RTK positioning for middle-long baseline with partial ambiguity resolution","volume":"49","author":"Gao","year":"2017","journal-title":"Surv. 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