PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Julie Antic
AU  - Odile Maliet,
AU  - Sébastien Trilles
TI  - SBAS Protection Levels with Gauss-Markov K-Factors for Any Integrity Target
AID  - 10.33012/navi.594
DP  - 2023 Sep 21
TA  - NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation
PG  - navi.594
VI  - 70
IP  - 3
4099  - https://navi.ion.org/content/70/3/navi.594.short
4100  - https://navi.ion.org/content/70/3/navi.594.full
SO  - NAVIGATION2023 Sep 21; 70
AB  - 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.