This study focuses on the assessment of estimated Unified Control Point (UCP) coordinates using multi-GNSS baseline vector network adjustments. Campaign-based observations from 33 UCP stations and two Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) o...
This study focuses on the assessment of estimated Unified Control Point (UCP) coordinates using multi-GNSS baseline vector network adjustments. Campaign-based observations from 33 UCP stations and two Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) on Jeju Island, Korea, were processed by two commercial GNSS software packages, resulting in 1,408 baseline vectors from eight constellation combinations of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou. Minimally constrained and over-constrained adjustments were successively performed to assess the effect of multi-constellation integration on the network precision. The multi-GNSS solutions have demonstrated improvements in both relative and absolute accuracy compared with the GPS-only solutions, with the vertical component exhibiting a reduction of approximately 25-30% in the semi-major axis of the error ellipses. Statistical testing at the 95% confidence level confirmed that coordinate differences between GPS-only and multi-GNSS adjustments were significant. Finally, an inverse statistical test was applied to determine the maximum allowable mean coordinate discrepancy between the two software packages, yielding values of approximately 1.5 cm in both the horizontal and vertical components. Such deviations are non-negligible for control point applications, indicating that software-dependent systematic differences must be carefully considered when deriving final coordinates.