Publication Date:
2020-02-27
Description:
Abstract
We describe a software developed to handle metadata of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
stations. The number of available GNSS sites in the Euro-Mediterranean and African area has grown
significantly in the last decade, pushing toward the development of automatic procedures for the analysis of
the raw observations. Currently 〉3000 stations are routinely processed at the GPS data analysis center based
on the GAMIT/GLOBK software operating at INGV-Bologna. Here we describe a software, written in
Python, developed with the goal of processing metadata associated with continuously operating GNSS
stations. The metadata is, generally, an ASCII file associated with each station, containing information about
the geodetic antenna, the receiver, the radome model and the antenna offset (distance between the phase
center of the antenna and the reference point, depending on the mechanical structure of the antenna mount).
Commonly, but not always, GNSS stations metadata are provided in the form of log-files, which are however
most of time compiled by human operators and later made available on the web for public access. On the
research side these metadata are fundamental for a proper data processing and an accurate estimate of
geophysical information, and need to be converted in a particular standard format (station info file),
depending on the software adopted for data reduction, with coherent information to not stall the elaboration.
The check of metadata coming from a huge amount of GNSS stations from different networks is a time
consuming task, which compromises the efficiency of the research job. The software presented in this work
aims at automatically update the repository of thousands of station metadata files, checking the coherence of
the information and creating the station info files, in different formats, needed for processing, thus requiring
a minimum effort for data processing to the operators.
Description:
INGV
Description:
Published
Description:
1-26
Description:
2T. Deformazione crostale attiva
Description:
N/A or not JCR
Keywords:
Global Navigation Satellite System, Global Positioning System (GPS) – Continuous GPS (CGPS) – station info – log file – metadata – offset – repository – data processing – station-info.
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04.03. Geodesy
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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