The development of augmentation services, such as
EGNOs and WAAS, requires careful
modelling and simulation before any deployment of equipment takes place.
The ideal location
of ground stations, and the potential impact of temporary failures of ground
equipment, must
be assessed in detail, to ensure that proposed service levels of accuracy
and integrity are
maintained at all times. The correct analysis of these parameters can only
be achieved if the
various wide area processing models, and their respective error propagation
characteristics,
are suitably simulated. This paper describes the use of a
sophisticated and versatile suite of GNSS
analysis tools in recent studies. It describes the incorporation of realistic
error budgets for
WADGPS and LADGPS corrections, and the potential
use of different combinations of GPS,
GLONASS, geostationary and other satellites in both
GNSS-1 and GNSS-2.