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In order to promote the application of GNSS-IR, the accuracy of the results needs to be further improved, and quality control needs to be achieved better. Classical quality control methods include denoising filtering based on data source SNR; post-processing filtering based on results; morphological analysis based on parameters, such as the ratio of the maximum peak value to the background noise mean, the ratio of the maximum peak to the sub-peak, and the amplitude of the maximum peak. All three methods have the problem of correct frequency extraction under multiple approximate peak conditions. This paper focuses on the performance analysis of three methods of quality control for two situations with real examples, summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of each method, and discusses the measures in applications. Considering the limitations in the threshold setting for the third method, a new quality control method combining multiple parameters and external constraints is proposed. This method is more flexible, especially in dealing with a periodogram with multiple similar peaks, breaking through the premise that the frequency corresponding to the maximum peak is the correct frequency, and validated in two different environments. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the accuracy of the measured water level while ensuring the amount of the results. 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