The invention provides a polar region shipborne unmanned aerial vehicle high-precision positioning method and
system, and the method comprises the steps: deploying a
radio base station at a ship end, determining the positioning of the
base station in real time, carrying out the real-time
wireless communication, carrying out the
distance measurement, and recording the
timestamp of a communication
signal; the unmanned aerial vehicle measures the height information relative to the ground in real time through a
laser altimeter, and then the ship-end computer calculates the accurate distance between the unmanned aerial vehicle and each
radio base station based on a
flight time method; the ship-end computer receives and processes the radio distance data, the height data of the
laser altimeter and the differential RTK positioning data in real time, and a linear equation
elimination method is adopted to calculate the three-dimensional coordinates of the unmanned aerial vehicle; according to the continuous three-dimensional coordinate data of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the real-time horizontal speed and the
flight direction of the unmanned aerial vehicle are obtained through differential calculation; and converting the calculated position information and the real-time speed and
direction information into
longitude and
latitude height positioning information, and sending the
longitude and
latitude height positioning information to an unmanned aerial vehicle navigation
control system in real time. According to the invention, the positioning precision and navigation stability of the shipborne unmanned aerial vehicle in a complex environment are effectively improved.