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Analyzing Rinex Data Files Using the Python Programming Language Cover

Analyzing Rinex Data Files Using the Python Programming Language

Open Access
|May 2024

Abstract

The techniques and tools developed for geodetic determinations have made it possible, over the past half century, to carry out measurements using global navigation satellite systems. As the accuracy and precision of positioning solutions, such as Fast Static and RTK, improve through technological advances, more applications will become available that can provide users with positioning information over time, autonomously verify the integrity of transmitted data, and ensure sufficient accuracy for their intended purposes. In our study for the interpretation, analysis, and visualization of raw and/or processed RINEX GNSS data recorded over time at a geodetic point using the information available from the Fast Static technique, we used the GeoRinex library from the Python programming language. This library converts data to xarray.data set, for easy use in processing parameter sets, from Rinex files: of ROMPOS reference stations and of the new B10 point resulting from measurements using the Fast Static technique: pseudorange (C1, C2, P1, P2....), carrier phase (L1, L2,…), doppler (D1, D2....) and signal strength (S1, S2....). All this information will help us to analyse and interpret the degradation of the parameters associated with Rinex version 2.11 epoch positioning files 12.02.2023, time interval 12:00-14:00 (fast static) and to understand their accuracy and behavior in different environments. Based on this study, our aim was to evaluate the error in determining the positioning accuracy of the B10 point located in a crowded and heavily trafficked area, which allows sufficient coverage of the GNSS satellites.

Language: English
Page range: 167 - 177
Submitted on: Feb 20, 2024
Accepted on: Mar 5, 2024
Published on: May 20, 2024
Published by: University of Oradea, Civil Engineering and Architecture Faculty
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2024 Alina Corina Bălă, B.C. Drăgulescu, Floarea-Maria Brebu, published by University of Oradea, Civil Engineering and Architecture Faculty
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