@article {Anticnavi.594, author = {Julie Antic and Odile Maliet, and S{\'e}bastien Trilles}, title = {SBAS Protection Levels with Gauss-Markov K-Factors for Any Integrity Target}, volume = {70}, number = {3}, elocation-id = {navi.594}, year = {2023}, doi = {10.33012/navi.594}, publisher = {Institute of Navigation}, abstract = {According to aviation minimum operational performance standards (MOPS), protection levels for satellite-based augmentation systems (SBASs) are to be computed as the product of the estimated standard deviation of errors and a scaling, or K-factor. MOPS recognized that K-factors were originally chosen to be consistent with certain assumptions that may not hold under all conditions. Considering the limited applicability of aviation-based K-factors, it will be important to identify a more rigorous method for deriving new SBAS applications for road, rail, or maritime use. Here we describe an innovative method applicable to any integrity risk (e.g., at 10-7 for aviation or 10-5 for maritime applications) and time interval T (e.g., 150 seconds to 1 hour for aviation or 3 hours for maritime use). This new method relies on rigorous probability justification. No restrictive assumptions are needed for the time correlation pattern of the errors. The method is easy-to-implement and applicable to any type of integrity risk or time interval T.}, issn = {0028-1522}, URL = {https://navi.ion.org/content/70/3/navi.594}, eprint = {https://navi.ion.org/content/70/3/navi.594.full.pdf}, journal = {NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation} }