The DGPS technique can be used for navigation over baselines up to approximately 100 km.
However, DGPS positioning accuracy is highly correlated and degraded with the extension
of its operational range. It is, hence, improper simply to carry on using conventional DGPS
for navigation over longer ranges. An approach aimed at providing sufficient accuracy with
the use of a minimum network of reference stations, and the modelling of GPS errors, has
been proposed and tested for regional navigation over the Taiwan area. It has been shown
from the test results that medium-range DGPS based on using multi-reference stations is
capable of improving the RMS coordinate differences by 35%, when compared to the use of
a single reference station. The RMS values can be further improved by 14% and 6% in plan
coordinates and height respectively, when the modelling of atmospheric delay is applied to
the differential corrections based on the pseudorange observables collected from the multi-reference stations.