Today the emergence of new satellite systems such as Galileo and BeiDou, as well as the modernization of GPS and
GLONASS, are creating dramatic changes, as well as offering new opportunities for more accurate applications
in the field of satellite positioning. International efforts coordinated by institutions such as
the International GNSS Service (IGS) have allowed, on an openly available basis, access to
the highest-quality GNSS data, products and services in support of positioning, navigation and timing
and other applications that benefit science and society.
Their availability has helped the scientific community to overcome
the challenges that one has to face due to the arrival of these new satellite systems and have made possible
to enhance the solution provided by multi-GNSS techniques.
However, these heterogeneous products are provided by various Data Centers (DC)
and Analysis Centers (AC) in many different locations. Users are therefore required to acquire their data
across multiple FTP Servers, a rather cumbersome and time consuming task which, in addition, requires considerable
familiarity with the inner workings of these services. To lessen this effort, we set out to
create a platform for the acquisition of GNSS data from heterogeneous sources, for performing
high accuracy position solutions and building suitable data visualizations of the positioning errors and solution
accuracies involved in the available GNSS data processing.
All of these tasks are essential for the purpose of making complex GNSS data more accessible,
understandable and useful for precise point positioning, atmospheric research and other applications.
System Requirements
- Both GnssGet- and GnssPlot-Gui work in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
- The GUI applications are built with MATLAB 2008 which provides the ability to develop GUI applications through the GUIDE (Graphical User Interface Development Environment).
- GnssGet- and GnssPlot-Gui work on top of RTKLIB, the Open Source Program Package for GNSS Positioning. RTKLIB must be up and running in your OS system before using the GnssGet and GnssPlor GUIs.
To cite this work, please use the following reference:
Kaselimi M., Doulamis N., Delikaraoglou D. and Protopapadakis E. (2018). GNSSGET and GNSSPLOT Platforms - Matlab GUIs for Retrieving GNSS Products and Visualizing GNSS Solutions. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 5: VCEA, ISBN 978-989-758-290-5, pages 626-633. DOI: 10.5220/0006756206260633