Using quasi ionosphere-free post-processing algorithm on the medium-range kinematic high accuracy GPS relative positioning

We utilize Quasi Ionosphere-Free (QIF) post-processing algorithm to account for ionosphere delay and use addition parameters to solve for tropospheric bias. Then the estimated integer ambiguities and troposphere parameters are fixed to acquire kinematic relative positions at every epoch.Using kinematic relative positioning, data from the Taiwan continuous GPS network (TCGN) are utilized to analyze the co-seismic displacements associated with the 21 September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake (ML=7.3). The station near the highest peak of Taiwan, Yushan (YUSN) and a station ineastem Taiwan, Fenglin (FLNM) show significant co-seismic displacements of 18 and 12 cm in the north direction as well as 16 and 24 cm in the west direction, respectively. Comparing the co-seismic displacements estimated from daily solutions with those from kinematic results, the differences are less than 2 cm in the horizontal components. The impact of the major aftershocks occurred immediately after the mainshock can be identified from the kinematic positioning. The same algorithm is also applied to study the 1 Hz sampling rate data related to 31 March 2002 off Hualien earthquake (ML=6.8), seven stations of the TCGN are analyzed to study the co-seismic deformation. With the higher sampling rate data, the instantaneous ground motion caused by the propagation of seismic waves can be observed.