The Service Performance Research of WAAS and EGNOS Broadcast Ephemeris Differential Integrity Based on RTCA

To improve the service performance of GPS, many countries and regions have established independent GPS Satellite -Based Augment System(SBAS), providing the broadcast ephemeris differential integrity message to satisfy the high precision and the high integrity users’ needs. This paper introduced the message format of the broadcast ephemeris differential integrity message of SBAS such as WAAS and EGNOS, and analyzed the real broadcast ephemeris differential integrity message of SBAS. The long-time corrections and the fast corrections’change characteristic of the broadcast ephemeris are analyzed in different regions which have the different SBAS and different message processing modes. Based on the GPS data provided by the International GNSS Service (IGS), the algorithm of using the broadcast ephemeris differential integrity message of SBAS are studied, and the positioning accuracy and integrity service of WAAS and EGNOS are compared and analyzed. The result shows that the positioning accuracy of WAAS is about 1.2 m, and the positioning accuracy of EGNOS is about 1.8 m. Compared with GPS basic navigation service, the positioning accuracy of WAAS and EGNOS could be increased by about 22％ and 16％. The integrity protection limits calculated by WAAS and EGNOS are roughly equal, within 16 m, and the positioning error can be enveloped.