SMOOTHING GNSS TIME SERIES WITH ASYMMETRIC MOVING AVERAGES

There is an increasing trend to apply GNSS continuous observation of short baselines to the monitoring of engineering works, such as bridges and dams, for their structural analysis and safety control. In the case of large dams, one important application of the GNSS continuous observation is the esta...

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Autor principal: Lima, J. N. (author)
Outros Autores: Casaca, J. M. (author)
Formato: workingPaper
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2013
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Texto completo:http://repositorio.lnec.pt:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1004891
País:Portugal
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Resumo:There is an increasing trend to apply GNSS continuous observation of short baselines to the monitoring of engineering works, such as bridges and dams, for their structural analysis and safety control. In the case of large dams, one important application of the GNSS continuous observation is the establishment of early warning systems that demand accurate, frequently updated information and where the analysis of the baseline time series, in order to separate signal from noise is mandatory. The paper presents a study on the performance of linear filters of the asymmetric moving average (AMA) type to smooth baseline time series. The transfer function of the AMA is adopted as a smoothing criterion to define an adequate order for the AMA, in face of the spectral density function of the baseline time series. One series of measurements of a short test baseline (325 m), materialized in the campus of the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, is used as an example of the proposed strategy.