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Many efforts have been devoted to detecting and mitigating the effects of multipath\/NLoS, but the identification and classification of such events are still challenging. This research proposes a method for the post-processing estimation of pseudorange biases resulting from multipath\/NLoS effects. Providing estimated pseudorange biases due to multipath\/NLoS effects serves two main purposes. Firstly, machine learning-based techniques can leverage accurately estimated pseudorange biases as training data to detect and mitigate multipath\/NLoS effects. Secondly, these accurately estimated pseudorange biases can serve as a benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of the methods proposed to detect multipath\/NLoS effects. The estimation is achieved by extracting the multipath\/NLoS biases from pseudoranges using a clustering algorithm named Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN). The performance is demonstrated using two real-world data collections in multipath\/NLoS scenarios for both static and dynamic conditions. Since there is no ground truth for the pseudorange biases due to the multipath\/NLoS scenarios, the proposed method is validated based on the positioning performance. Positioning solutions are computed by subtracting the estimated biases from the raw pseudoranges and comparing them to the ground truth.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24082611","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,19]],"date-time":"2024-04-19T06:28:09Z","timestamp":1713508089000},"page":"2611","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Post-Processing Multipath\/NLoS Bias Estimation Method Based on DBSCAN"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Yihan","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4337-673X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Simone","family":"Zocca","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9646-523X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paolo","family":"Dabove","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6078-9099","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabio","family":"Dovis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"366","article-title":"Measuring GNSS multipath distributions in urban canyon environments","volume":"64","author":"Xie","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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