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GPS data from receiver to processing input M. Floyd K. Palamartchouk Massachuses Instute of Technology Newcastle University GAMIT-GLOBK course University of Bristol, UK 12–16 January 2015 Material from R. King, T. Herring, M. Floyd (MIT) and S. McClusky (now ANU) Raw data formats GPS antenna Receiver: Ashtech Leica Topcon Trimble Raw format: B-file R-file .R00 .T00 .T01 .T02 Pre-processing: runpkr00 Translaon: RINEX Converter TEQC RINEX file Movaon for Receiver INdependent EXchange (RINEX) format •  All manufacturers have developed their own proprietary file formats for data storage specific to their receivers and processing soware –  Problems occur when processing data from another manufacturer’s receiver •  RINEX developed by the Astronomical Instute of the University of Berne to allow easy and universal exchange of raw GPS data –  Principal driver was the large European GPS campaign EUREF 89 - involved more than 60 GPS receivers of 4 different manufacturers. RINEX data format •  Includes text file formats for: –  observaon (“o”) } most important for most users –  navigaon (“n”) –  meteorological (“m”) –  ionospheric data (“i”) •  Defined at hp:///igscb/data/format/ •  Each file type consists of a header secon and a data secon •  Header secon contains global informaon for the enre file and is pla