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1. 7 5 3 Overall Status View Overall Status opens a detailed summary view of the GPS GLONASS and RTCM data input status the calculation status and the data output status and provides a general picture of the Verify QC operational status Overall Status Inputs Outputs GPS_LD25_46418 GPS GPS GLONASS Ultra 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 01 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 88 id EE NE NN EN ES Apex 0102 HOTE 07 08 Ned i E im Xr 8 i Em BI I SS BE 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Ephemeris Ephemeris Ephemeris 87 T E 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 01 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 lt tdPlus 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 GLONASS Corrections Corrections Corrections StdGl Di 02 03040 06 07 o8 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 o1 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 09 10 11 12 93 14 15 16 aberdeen 77 O 17 18 1920 21 22 23 24 c Wick 701 O EN M Okristiansund 704 O RTCM LD2S 46418 P2 gt Falmouth 706 O Bologna 708 Marbella 710 L1 Constellation Calculations 30 Ul
2. 46 De FANE E 52 ET el en 55 nag o llc e 55 62 US HDE T 59 60 LO ES LEE Rem T 60 MEC NMILVCESNIDIOAMe 61 MEE LS TICE RM E O vv O O A 63 6 6 GENERATE STATUS REPORT E 64 6 7 IMPORT VERICHART FILE Aender e dE EE EA EE 64 00 SYNGHRONISE PC CLOQG E 65 VIE W EE EE 67 7 1 1E m 67 VOMEECO TENRNRRE 68 Lo DIFFERENTIA MT TRRIR E 76 7 4 CSL OUTPUT STATION ID 83 HERO E E 97 l cecchicsm J oe 110 jeje E X s 116 8 1 LOCK CONFIG EE 116 8 2 COM e ONE CA EE 117 EC WE RE e ERIC LEE 118 Ur Ip e ic 119 10 HELP TE 120 10 1 DONGLE UPGRADES AND HELPDESK proin re epe onu t e taa ae nEx p Ex oux S Pena ege ger u ki raa ree E Ra in p
3. 355 Differential Calculation CC Logging View menu structure When Verify QC has been configured for use the user can select the required display screen information It is recommended that only windows required for the current operation are opened Verify QC does not require windows open on the screen to function correctly Note The range of options available in the View menu is dependent on the dongle enable status or your settings View these at Tools Advanced Options lO Select View O to display scrolling IO data This terminal window allows the user to view the data input and output on a specified port Correct decoding of the input data is printed in green with the decoded data header printed in black If input data is NOT decoded correctly or is corrupted it will be printed in red or not at all Output data is printed in blue EES PS JPS Raw Measuerments 396 sm CC0314162 G4620 2124158251782 22435 15F 4182213520 2127 42432 4199241762 21235 41782 51762 5125186281772 412 2232 k81 esequi hes PS JPS Long C A Pseudarange Smoothing Corrections 48 SE C1031 16822322133 12 F 1752 4124189241582 2520 1 2Pg1802 61752 4124180241662 a 82 hi1 9520 lt 1 2ES156 P Glee ID rks Ie ee m Re cc e PS JPS Long P L1 Pseudorange Smoothing Corrections 48 dus C2031 20754130 151762 91205214127 2125163252412 51232513020 512122042 2205251782 51254252222 1 1251772 E lO View R
4. Minimum of Heights hh hh metres Minimum of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period Ah 10 1 1 D CO Maximum of Heights hh hh metres Maximum of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period Doodson hh hh metres Estimated tide less antenna height above Mean Sea Surface from the Doodson filter First available after 39 hours MSS Tide hh hh metres Local tide based on the Mean Sea Surface derived from the Doodson filter First available after 39 hours Geoid Tide hh hh metres Local tide relative to user selected Geoid see field 22 Available instantaneously after user configured hold off time Antenna Height hh hh metres User entered height of the antenna above the waterline Geoid Separation hh hh metres 15 16 17 18 9 1 Local offset between the user selected Geoid and the WGS84 reference ellipsoid Draft hh hh metres The draft Calculated as the current Doodson value minus the Doodson value for the first record Vertical Bias hh hh metres The vertical bias detected between MSS Tide and Geoid Tide Calculated as Antenna Height minus Doodson plus Draft Geoid Model EGM96 EGMO08 or USER depending on user selection Page 181 A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual 20 21 22 Fixed end delimiter v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Documen
5. 1 to 9 Total number of sentences 1 to 9 Notes 1 Satellite information may require the transmission of multiple sentences all containing identical field formats when sending a complete message The first field specifies the total number of sentences minimum value 1 The second field identifies the order of this sentence sentence number minimum value 1 For efficiency it is recommended that null fields be used in the additional sentences when the data is unchanged from the first sentence 2 A variable number of Satellite ID Elevation Azimuth SNR sets are allowed up to a maximum of four sets per sentence Null fields are not required for unused sets when less than four sets are transmitted 3 Satellite ID numbers To avoid possible confusion caused by repetition of satellite ID numbers when using multiple satellite systems the following convention has been adopted a GPS satellites are identified by their PRN numbers which range from 1 to 32 b The numbers 33 64 are reserved for WAAS satellites The WAAS system PRN numbers are 120 138 The offset from NMEA WAAS SV ID to WAAS PRN number is 87 AWAAS PRN number of 120 minus 87 yields the SV ID of 33 The addition of 87 to the SV ID yields the WAAS PRN number c The numbers 65 96 are reserved for GLONASS satellites GLONASS satellites are identified by 64 satellite slot number The slot numbers are 1 through 24 for the full GLONASS constellation of 24 satellites this gives
6. Select File 20 April 2007 24 April 2007 25 April 2007 30 April 2007 1 May 2007 2 May 2007 Event Log View Select File Rev No A Page 111 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Whilst the event log is in File mode it is possible to browse through the event files using the Next and Prev commands or to select the file for a specific date via the Select sub menu Show d sort By kg Display Mode k Mext Prev Event Log View File Mode The view options outlined above are available also by right clicking on the header bar of the view 7 6 2 Config Change Log All configuration changes are stored in an XML file with the same name and kept in the same location as the configuration file This log of configuration changes is displayed also in Verify QC in the Config Change log View The view contains a record of the date and time of the change a title and a description of the change Further details of the change can be displayed by clicking on the symbol at the start of the specific change entry Similarly the details can be collapsed Config Change Log Description El 29 January 2009 16 35 08 Poor SNR Note Just experienced a period of poor SNR due to the crane masking the GPS antenna E 29 January 2009 16 33 34 Change of shift at 17 00 no config changes No notes
7. Stations Bai Edit RTCM Beam VERIPOS recommend users tick the VERIPOS station data type box This allows the user to select from the predefined lists of reference stations that are available on each VERIPOS downlink beam and ensures that the Ultra and Apex corrections will be decoded and available A Page 19 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 2 1 3 4 2 1 4 Rev No Date The Secondary via NTRIP must be ticked if the RTCM is being received via NTRIP When the Secondary via NTRIP is box ticked if the RTCM being received via L Band antenna were to drop out Verify QC v1 12B switches to use NTRIP RTCM corrections Mode Verify QC can automatically detect the Closest 10 Stations received on the RTCM input for decoding The beam and station then do not need to be selected and are removed from the dialogue VERIPOS recommends that when selecting Closest 10 Stations all available stations are enabled on the demodulator RTCM output port Alternatively if Mode is set to User Configurable the user can manually select a preferred list of stations from the Stations list for decode by Verify QC Station Data Iv VWeripos Secondary via NTRIF Made user Configurable Beam EISE Closest 10 Stations Stations Metherlands 702 Bada 703 Kristiansund F04 Tananger F05
8. 1 1 WW imm j j H5 i1 3 WM CES EE i SV 25 30 40 N Ki EECH DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE D 606 Es em vele E E G24 G26 13 RO6 RO R10 R15 Ri Ret tn R23 ici Cape Town Qc Walvis Bay C3 Luanda Oc4 Gabon O5 Lagos Oc Acera OCB Las Palmas OCF Malta C10 Cyprus I0 GNSS Rx 1282 191 2375 0 W 228 137 1 129 25553 128 234 198 241 207548 lt 243 gt lt 24 gt 25 0 3 238 22 45 2 5 193 4255 2c 0 170 208 19 0 h 1305 255 0 255 1475 D 1702 2085 1765 0 hD 149 655 129 255 5 128 29 219 182 pU8 205 tabs 2 128 3 238 1 n 5 195 255 19 12824213 p9 230 229 255 d 182 1402 525 Standard 120s Os The Windows menu also shows all current windows open Selecting these options makes the window active The active window has a tick displayed next to the label in the menu A 06 05 2015 1 CSL Output Station IDs 2 IO GNSS Rx 3 IO Closest 10 Stations 4 GPS Source GNSS Rx 5 Latency Window Menu Page 119 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 10 10 1 10 1 1 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 HELP The Help menu contains utilities for reprogramming dongles and gives access to the revision history the User Manual
9. Note the receiver IO Device must first be set up as Serial Port for this function to work within Verify QC If this is not done prior to use the option to establish a baud rate with the connected GNSS receiver will not be available Page 56 A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 selecting Action Receiver Establish Baud Rate will open the Baud Rate Monitor status window Verify QC will start to cycle through the range of baud rates and attempts to establish a connection with the GNSS Receiver Baud Rate Monitor Status Determining Receiver Baud Rate Determining Receiver Baud Rate Attempting to connect at 1200 Attempting to connect at 2400 Attempting to connect at 4800 Attempting to connect at 9600 Attempting to connect at 19200 Establish Baud Rate status window Once Verify QC detects the receiver current baud rate setting it will report that it is connected to the receiver at this specific baud rate See the example dialogue below Baud Rate Monitor Status Connected to receiver at 175200 Attempting to connect at 19200 Attempting to connect at 38400 Attempting to connect at 5 600 Attempting to connect at 115200 Connected to receiver at 175200 Establish Baud Rate status window 6 1 4 Set Receiver Baud Rate This feature is particularly useful if the initial baud rate was too low for the GNSS receiver data to
10. Verify QC Installation Status Rev No A Page 129 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Installation is now complete Click Finish iz Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard Install5hield Wizard Completed The InstallShield Wizard has successfully installed verify v1 12 Click Finish to exit Ehe wizard Bk SJ Gei Verify QC Installation Complete Rev No A Page 130 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 B DONGLE DRIVER INSTALLATION The Verify QC software is dongle protected An enabled dongle will be supplied with the software If dongle is missing or not enabled contact VERIPOS The installation of the dongle driver will automatically follow the Verify QC software installation The drivers may be upgraded or re installed manually by going to Start All Programs VEHIPOS Dongle Drivers Reinstall Drivers c Ch DOCUME 1ss7u23b5 LOCALS 1 TempsRarSFX dkzinsEaller exe Dongle Driver Installer It is possible to check in Control panel whether dongle drivers and which version have been installed Go to Start Control Panel and double click on the DESkey icon This will open the DESkey Configuration dialogue The details of the installed driver can be read in the File Versions tab DESkey Configuration
11. v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Rev No Date NMEA VTG Sentence The NMEA VTG sentence provides the actual course and speed relative to the ground Structure and Example GPVTG p p T q a M r r N s s K u hh CR LF GPVTG 054 7 T 034 4 M 005 5 N 010 2 K 33 VTG sentence defined VTG Course over ground and ground speed p p course over ground T degrees True q q course over ground M degrees Magnetic r r speed over ground N knots S S speed over ground K km hr U mode indicator A Autonomous D Differential E Estimated hh lt CR gt lt LF gt checksum carriage return and line feed Verify QC supports 2 variations of the NMEA VTG sentence These variations are o VTG Default conforms to NMEA v3 0 standard and includes the mode indicator o VTG Old conforms to previous NMEA standards and does not include the mode indicator NMEA GSA Sentence The NMEA GSA sentence contains the GNSS DOP and satellites used in the solution If only GPS SVs are used in the calculation the talker ID will be GP If only Glonass SVs are used in the calculation the Talker ID will be GL If the GPS and Glonass SVs are used ina combined solution the talker ID will be GN and multiple GSA sentences are produced Structure and Example GSA a N XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX Pp p hh h vv v c lt CR gt lt LF gt GNGSA A 3 02 04 05 07 08 10 13 16 23 29 1 1 0 6 0
12. Rate of Change of the GLONASS orbit ECEF Z coordinate correction Age T39 The age of the GLONASS clock correction i e the difference between the current time and time that the correction values were generated in seconds Reference to the source processing centre of the Apex corrections within the Source Veripos data network i e 0 3 A transition between sources is managed within the Apex algorithms Clock The clock correction value relative to a proprietary reference in metres Rev No A Page 154 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 E QUALITY STANDARDS E 1 Rev No Date A number of standards offer marine satellite navigation system users DGNSS DGPS DGPS DGLONASS quality information The most well known and frequently referred to standards are 1 UKOOA 2 NMEA 0183 Each standard is explained in more detail in the following sections NMEA have recently introduced the NMEA 2000 interface standard This standard falls outside the scope of this document See www nmea org for further information Heferences 1 Guidelines for the use of Differential GPS in offshore surveying UKOOA 1994 2 NMEA 0183 Standard for interfacing marine electronic devices version 3 01 January 1 2002 UKOOA STANDARD The UK Offshore Operator Association UKOOA issued Guidelines for the use of Differential GPS in offshore surveying
13. Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Added stations will be included in the Stations list for selection Station Data Iv Weripos Secondary via MTRIP Made user Configurable Beam AOR Stations New Station F89 Aberdeen 777 Wick 704 Netherlands 702 Bodo 03 wikristiepsund 704 a Additional Stations gt Mew Station 7 353 Additional Stations When adding new stations e ensure the new station was indeed added to the selected beam e the demodulator configuration must be update separately to enable stations on its RTCM output port See the demodulator manual IO Device IO Device section supports demodulator status inputs via Serial Port Client Socket and Datagram Serial Port Client Socket and Datagram connection details are detailed in the Appendix Note Demodulator Status messages require different IO Device and physical connection from the one used to input the RTCM messages Use of Non VERIPOS RTCM stations Verify QC is capable of using non VERIPOS corrections These corrections should comply with the RTCM SC104 V2 format Stations need to be coordinated in the ITRF reference frame to ensure compatibility with the VERIPOS reference station network Note VERIPOS cannot guarantee the performance of position calculations that include correction data from 3 party non VERIPOS RTCM stations When interfacing a non VERIPOS RTCM source uncheck the V
14. AOR W 33 112 9gw 55 185 Station Map View Options are available using right click Station Map View Options The map can be copied as an image and the tables and legend can be hidden Rev No A Page 79 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 7 3 4 7 3 5 7 3 6 7 3 7 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 By default the map will zoom in to the user location and the stations for which corrections have been received The map can be changed to show the VERIPOS coverage displaying all stations in the global VERIPOS network It can also be adjusted to show the 5 15 and 30 elevations of all satellite delivery links Station Map View Global Coverage Use the mouse to draw a box on the map and zoom to that area Use zoom out zoom in icon to move back to the previous map Station Data This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description Ultra Corrections This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description Apex Corrections This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description Type 16 Messages A Page 80 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 View Differential Type 16 Messages opens a view showing details for received Type 16 messages Reference stations may issue
15. Averaging Period numerical Fixed period 8600 seconds over which the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights are averaged in seconds Sample Count numerical Number of VERIPOS Apex or Ultra height samples that were included to derive the antenna height average Minimum is 50 of Averaging Period maximum is Averaging Period Latitude ddmm mmmm Location where height and tide information is valid degrees minutes and decimal minutes Longitude dddmm mmmm Location where height and tide information is valid degrees minutes and decimal minutes Longitude C E or W Hemisphere Rev No A Page 183 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Rev No Date 0 Mean Height hh hh metres Mean of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period Mean of Height SD hh hh metres Mean of the Height SD s associated with the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period This is an indication of the quality of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights hh 12 SD of Heights hh hh metres Standard deviation of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period This is an indication if the variation of the height due to vessel motion and position quality Minimum of Heights hh hh metres Minimum of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period Maximum of Hei
16. Closest 4 Stations Closest 3 Stations Closest 2 Stations Closest Station DGNSS Calculation Selection The following logic is applied for the station selection for Closest Stations calculations Only stations within 1500km range are selected Only VERIPOS stations are selected non VERIPOS stations are excluded A Standard calculation only selects stations with RTCM Type 1 messages A GLONASS Only calculation only selects stations with RTCM Type 31 messages A Standard calculation first selects stations which provide both RTCM Type 1 and RTCM Type 31 messages The remaining station slots are then filled with stations that only provide RTCM Type 1 messages Ee 4 4 2 4 DGNSS Calc Stations Where As Selected Below is selected users can select the Stations to be used in the calculations All reference stations that were defined on each of the RTCM inputs will be available in the Stations box in the calculation dialogue box Select the required reference stations by ticking that box in the list If more than one station is to be selected highlight the range of stations to be used and select a tick box This will tick all of your highlighted stations Rev No A Page 31 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Mame Made ve ripas Standard d selection is Selected Below stations Wick F014 Metherlands F
17. D 5 GLONASS EPHEMERIS v eripos View GNSS GLONASS Ephemeris displays the current ephemeris data for each satellite that is being tracked GLONASS Ephemeris Slot 01 ROT ROZ ROS Rod Ro Roe ROY Rus RO RIG R11 R12 xls testes EG ue eret ese R RIT RIS ERIA e E S LUDERE EE GLONASS Ephemeris Slot oi 718 32424 09 00 44100 12 15 0 11697638 2 10090418 0 2775 929 138 690 1671 136 0 000000 0 000000 0 000003 0 GLONASS M 00 Nn 718 30624 08 30 42300 11 45 0 16230629 4 10646781 7 16533789 6 2221 432 451 998 2473 113 0 000000 0 000001 0 000003 0 00 Nn 718 28824 08 00 40500 11 15 0 19579331 1 11597323 7 11499802 2 1475 455 566 046 3083 865 0 000000 0 000002 0 000003 0 00 Nn 0001867845568 0001867845568 000186784568 C OCIO HOC OO C CY 0 OCIO YO OO C CY 0 OCIO RC OC OO C CY ii Bn A g 0 P1 30 30 30 P2 1 1 1 P3 g P4 g g GLONASS Ephemeris View Clicking on the blue slot numbers displays the data for that particular satellite GLONASS Ephemeris Data Shows the GLONASS satellite channel number Shows the current date Calendar number of day within four year interval starting from a leap year the time referenced to the beginning of the frame within the current day index of a time interval within current day according to UTC SU 03 hours to 00 min The number between brackets indicates the number of ephemeris Z messages received w
18. I H 8torthisverson oo 1 H X Secmmeti 0 000000 A __ Name version of DGPS system See comment 2 NENNEN s s GPS Week no since August 21 1999 F10 2 s Seconds into GPS week GPS Time s EN See comment 3 dd mm mmmmmN space between D and M dd mm mmmmmE space between D and M am mi fu S Ce p S ma ma ma In Lossen Ju ss In ss OS Ju ho otsaees used iorns 1 Insta statons used for x See Commen iO en In Ret statons used for this f Separated by commas mo a Cosesting o 00 Page 170 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Rev No Date v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Comments 1 10 A 06 05 2015 The Nav point no is a unique integer identifying the position It should be manually input to the software according to requests from Positioning Engineers Alternatively this should start from 1 and be incremented if several positions are output from the same system The system name should identify the system or contractor and software version e g SEADIFF 2 1 or MFIX 1 2 3 The Age of fix is the time of the first character of the data string being output to WesternGeco s Positioning system minus the time of position WGS84 ellipsoid and datum must be used The Height must be antenna height above the WGS84 ellipsoid The Variance and Covariance terms are elements from the Variance Covar
19. It can be used with VERIPOS Apex and Ultra services The MSS Tides function allows a vessel to determine local tidal height Reset It is possible to reset the Tide calculation process manually when the work area changes or essential input information is known to have changed such as the antenna height above the waterline Previously logged data is deleted and the Tides logging process starts afresh Following reset the MSS Tide calculation requires an initialisation period of 39 hours A Geoid Tide calculation gives an instantaneous tides estimate Tide Logging X vd Do you want to archive existing tidal data before the reset Check the df archive box and set the directory for the archive WARNING if the archive box is checked the archive action will still take place even if the reset is cancelled Browse Directory Archive Before Reset ce Tides Reset Dialogue Box A tick box option to archive logged Tide information is presented before resetting Select an archive location where the two log files will be stored using Browse Archive Logged Tide information can be archived whilst the Tide calculation is active Archiving the tide log files will not automatically reset the process The Archive function will copy the Tides logging files to a selected directory Files may be split using the drop down box between daily weekly or monthly Note thatthe Monthly option covers a 31 day period To
20. Shows the satellite health status based on ephemeris data This is the Ephemeris primary source of satellite health status The information is available only for satellites tracked at the user location The number indicates the health flag oer the GPS ICD Shows satellite health status based on the ephemeris data This is the TT secondary source of satellite health status Information is available for all satellites in the constellation The number indicates the health flag per GPS ICD GLONASS SV Health Identifies the GLONASS satellite slot number oatellites enabled or disabled by the user in the current Verify QC software Enabled configuration Gives satellite health status based on ephemeris data This is the primary source of satellite health status The information is available only for satellites tracked at the user location The number indicates the health flag as per the GLONASS ICD As for GPS satellites Ephemeris The individual GPS and GLONASS sections can be displayed or hidden by ticking the system name Copy l vw GLONASS SV Health View Options Unhealthy satellites transmit a warning flag uploaded by satellite ground control during maintenance operations Verify QC uses this flag to temporarily prevent the data from these satellites from being used in position calculations Disabled satellites have been manually flagged by the user for exclusion from the position calculations This option covers a
21. ZDA GNS VIG GSA GSV GSV NMEA GGA Sentence The NMEA GGA sentence contains time and position fix related data for a GPS system It includes basic quality information which is limited to Fix Quality Number of Satellites in Use HDOP and Age of Differential GPS Data Structure and Example GPGGA hhmmss ss ddmm mmmmmmm a dddmm mmmmmmm b Q s p p h h M g g M x x annn c lt CR gt lt LF gt GPGGA 150207 00 5708 7100972 N 00217 1170486 W 2 10 0 9 137 44 M 50 72 M 6 4 0704 57 GGA sentence defined a J NorS laitudehemiphere O GPS Quality indicator 0 invalid 1 GPS SPS 2 DGPS fix 3 GPS PPS 4 Fixed RTK 5 Float RTK 6 Estimated dead reckoning 7 Manual Input Mode 8 Simulation Mode S number of satellites in use antenna altitude above mean sea level units of antenna altitude meters units of geoidal height meters X age of differential GPS data Differential reference station ID 0000 to 1023 c lt CR gt lt LF gt checksum carriage return and line feed pp horizontal dilution of precision h h M M X Geoidal height Verify QC supports 4 variations of the NMEA GGA These variations are o GGA Default number of SV s can exceed 12 and sentence length can exceed 82 characters Increased precision 7 decimals for Lat amp Lon o GGA DP fully NMEA 0183 compatible string Number of SV s is limited to 12 and the sentence length is restricted to 82
22. for which real time DGPS corrections in RTCM format are calculated This calculation is specific to VERIPOS This function allows highly stable and accurate DGPS corrections to be calculated and then be output to external DGPS systems or a telemetry link PPP Ref Name PPP Ret Name is used to allocate a name to the PPP Ref calculation Page 39 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 PPP Ref Calculation X Mame FPF Ref from pex Position apes rx Elevation Mask ho cnoe Document title Document No PPP Ref calculation dialogue 4 4 6 2 PPP Ref Position This allows the PPP solution to be used as the reference position for the PPP ref process to be selected Users can select depending on their availability from Ultra or Apex 4 4 6 3 PPP Ref Elevation Mask This sets the user elevation mask for PPP Ref calculation 4 4 6 4 PPP Ref RTCM Output The actual RTCM output parameters and IO Device settings are configured in a second dialogue Config Calculation PPP Ref RHTCM Output PPP Ref RTCM Qutput x Station Ident jose Type 1 Type 3 Station Health o Iv Enabled v Enabled Interwal Interval 1 00 o Device IO Device None Type 2 mS E nable sou Interval o LF Serial Port Server Socket Datagram File Duration 1 06 Tvpe 16 v Enabled Interval 2 00 Message ve ripas Verifw iQC PPP R
23. height in the calculation S Spheroidal Height M Height above MSL i e Orthometric 5 Mode positioning mode used to derive height value H Height Aided 3 3D Solution Unknown 6 Error Ellipse shows 95 confidence level or 68 confidence level if the Output SD s at 1 sigma box is ticked of the semi major axis and semi minor axis 7 Direction orientation of the semi major axis from centre to largest error detection degrees from true North 8 95 68 SD shows 95 precision value or 68 precision value if the Output SD s at 1 sigma box is ticked of the latitude longitude and height coordinates 9 F Test a test applied to the Unit Variance A Fail may result from large outliers in the measurements 10 External Reliability the External Reliability is the maximum positional effect of an undetectable error in an observation This quantity is related to the Power of the test probability that the MDE would be detected and the Significance level used It is considered to be a more useful concept than internal reliability hence its recommended use by UKOOA as the most suitable measure of Reliability External reliability is measured in metres 11 LOP LOP Line of Position indicates the PRN of the last satellite in the list with the External Reliability value SV PRN 01 99 HT if Altitude 00 OK 12 w test Rejected LOP w test Rejected LOP gives the PRN of the last satellite in the list t
24. 0 00001 8143 O O00 56563 O11 2180 98484 o O08 S206 0 OOO OO00000 2530 3 O Healthy 4 haurs e z 4m OMEGADOT IDOT O09 223184 13 59 44 Tue A153 6785354610 O 0024594 9094 145 4 heed 485 by oe ase dAn AS O12 3602804 24 SF PAs Foe 0 00000 805 OOO0004 601 o OOO ooo 244 259 87250 25 37250 U OUOU 58794 O O00 3529287 OO OO04 BIZA 0 00022412 ana 28174 84236 0 00085206 0 OUOOUODOUOU EDT 0 Healthy 4 hours lt 2 4m aro 22 4200 14 00 00 Tue 8153 87 85507200 O 002594971 64 145 9825955560 oy 24 ranana 50125616215 245776113588 0 OOOO 2 805 0 OOO0004 60 1 o ODOODO 4 zh59 812h5 0 zs O 0000 58 91 o OD 352 92 87 0 ooo So25 0 O00 24 12 riu 28175 12156 0 OO eS OG 0 OO OO O0 Zaks 0 Healthy 4 hours 2 4m GPS Ephemeris View Clicking on the blue PRN numbers displays the data for that particular satellite Issue of Data Ephemeris provides a means of detecting any change in the IODE ephemeris representational parameters The displayed value is a serial number of the current issue i week has a length of 604800 seconds Square root of the semi major axis root in meters e Eccentricity o O je Inclination angle at reference time O 1 0 0 0 0 Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 Page 141 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Mean motion difference from computed value OMEGADOT Ra
25. 1 6 1 2 2 6 1 2 3 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 Initialise Action Receiver Initialise sends commands to configure the receiver for use with Verify QC Note this does not set or change the communication parameters Interface the GPS receiver to Verify QC using Config GNSS Rx prior to using this command Users are not required to initialise the receiver once the software is operational Required when setting up a new system or when Verify QC stops receiving data from the GNSS Receiver GPS GLONASS Request Ephemeris The command requests the latest GPS or GLONASS ephemeris data from the receiver These settings can be accessed via Action Receiver GPS Request Ephemeris and Action Receiver GLONASS Request Ephemeris Verify QC will actively request the ephemeris during normal software operation as required Users are not required to request the ephemeris once the software is operational Request Almanac Action Receiver GPS Request Almanac and Action Receiver GLONASS Request Almanac requests the latest GPS or GLONASS almanac data from the receiver Verify QC actively requests the almanac Not required once the software is operational Request lono Action Receiver GPS Request lono requests the latest GPS ionospheric model information from the receiver Verify QC actively requests the ionospheric model information Not required once the software is operational Establish Baud Rate
26. 22 50 22 50 23 00 23 00 23 00 23 00 Statistics Scatter Delta East 23 10 Delta North 23 10 Delta Height 23 10 Number of SVs 23 10 Unit Variance Time Series View 23 20 23 20 23 20 23 20 v eripos 23 30 23 30 23 30 23 30 ll x OC Me ME GPS and GLONASS v C IC cC me Trial Point e Time Scale Hour Plot betta East betta North betta Height Number of SVs unit Variance The Difference View show the differences in position between each consecutive position fix This is an indication of positioning stability View shows the 1 differences for each calculated position including Number of SV s and the Unit Variance UKOOA The UKOOA View shows the primary statistical parameter present within the UKOOA output The view includes the Semi major axis Unit Variance Internal Reliability 2D External Reliability and RMS Statisti CS Shows range of general Statistics namely HDOP PDOP RMS Number of SV s Number of Stations and Latency Scatter The Scatter View shows a 2D North East scatter plot of the positions This view has the following appearance A 06 05 2015 Page 100 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Ge Time Series Trial Point m x Statistics Position Difference Ho
27. 4 7 5 5 v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Calculation History The calculation history displays a history of the main events against a time scale The top bar provides a general overview of event happenings and the time period The black box acts as a viewfinder and can be moved along the time axis Depending on the overall time scale an area of 5 30 or 60 minutes is magnified in the bottom bar The left hand column describes the event whilst the right hand column shows the time span i History Standard Plus 1 Hour Bologna 708 missing Type15 for PRN 11 Bologna 708 rejected PRN 28 below mask 10 Marbella 710 rejected PRN 14 below mask 10 0 UKOOA Reject Extended PRN 11 Marbella pto h E T isa Bologna 708 missing Type15 for PRN 23 l 04 02 00 04 03 00 04 04 00 04 05 00 04 06 00 Calculation History View The time period can be changed by using the mouse to right click in the screen Time period options are 1 6 12 and 24 hours The user can select also the calculation for the calculation history to be displayed Time Scale d Calculation Ultra Copy Apex l PPF Ref Calculation Size En Content Standard w Standard Plus Standard GLONASS Calculation History View Options Status Report The Status Report view provides 3 views to monitor the availability of GNSS measurements and correction data The primary view is
28. 9 21 GNGSA A 3 68 69 70 78 79 80 85 86 1 1 0 6 0 9 2F GSA sentence defined GSA GNSS DOP and Active Satellites a Mode M Manual forced to operate in 2D or 3D mode A Automatic allowed to automatically switch 2D 3D n Mode 1 Fix not available 2 2D 3 3D xx x12 ID numbers of satellites used in solution up to the first 12 ID s pp p PDOP hh h HDOP V VV VDOP c lt CR gt lt LF gt checksum carriage return and line feed A Page 163 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 NMEA GSV Sentence Rev No Date GNSS Satellites In View Number of satellites SV in view satellite ID numbers elevation azimuth and SNR value Four satellites maximum per transmission Total number of sentences being transmitted and the number of the sentence being transmitted are indicated in the first two fields If multiple GPS GLONASS etc satellites are in view use separate GSV sentences with talker ID GP to show the GPS satellites in view and talker GL to show the GLONASS satellites in view etc The GN identifier shall not be used with this sentence GSV XX XX XX XX XXX XX KX XX XXX Xx hh CR LFE LL L 4 ENT jnd and gx SNR C No 00 99 dB Hz null when not tracking Azmuth degrees True 000 to 359 Elevation degrees 90 maximum Satellite ID number Total number of satellites 1n view Sentence number
29. Apex 4 0 0 55 Support enquiries should be made to Veripos via the 74 Hour Helpdesk Email helpdesk veripos com Support http help veripos com v eripos Copyright Veripos 2014 Verify QC About View Example Rev No A Page 123 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 11 Rev No Date v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 INDEX OF APPENDICES C UJ A 06 05 2015 INSTALLING VERIFY QC A 1 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION DONGLE DRIVER INSTALLATION DEVICE IO DESCRIPTIONS C 1 SERIAL PORTS C 2 CLIENT SOCKET C 3 SERVER SOCKET C 4 DATAGRAM C 5 FILEIO ADVANCED VIEWS D 1 ALMANAC D 2 GPS EPHEMERIS D 3 GPS CCF DA GPS MEASUREMENTS DA GLONASS EPHEMERIS D 6 GLONASS CCF D GLONASS MEASUREMENTS D 8 STATION DATA D 9 ULTRA CORRECTIONS D 10 APEX CORRECTIONS QUALITY STANDARDS E 1 UKOOA STANDARD E 2 NMEA 0183 STANDARD E 3 IMCA RECOMMENDATIONS VERIFY QC OUTPUTS F 1 NMEA SENTENCES F2 ADVANCED POSITIONING AND QC SENTENCES TIDES LOGGING FILE FORMATS TRIMBLE 4000DS AND TRIMBLE 4000SSE SSI CONFIGURATION Hi 4000DS H 2 4000SSE SSI GNSS RECEIVER LIST Page 124 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 APPENDICES Rev No A Page 125 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V
30. Ern RU EE uw ext amp Hours Start Animation Mext 12 Hours E Full Day Position Hide Glonass Size to Content DOP View Display Mode Right click can also be used to hide GLONASS constellation details 7 2 3 Almanac This is an Advanced View See Appendices for detailed description 7 2 4 SV Health View SV Health displays the current health status of all the GPS and or GLONASS satellites in view OCEMBI D Healthy D Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy D Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Unhealthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy D Healthy D Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Unhealthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy 0 Unhealthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Unhealthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Unhealthy 0 Unhealthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 1 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy 0 Healthy SV Health View Rev No A Page 71 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 GPS SV Health Identifies the GPS satellite PRN number Satellites enabled or disabled by the user in the current Verify QC software Enabled e configuration
31. GPS RINEX VERSION TYPE PGH RUN BY DATE HARKER NAME HARKER NUMBER OBSERVER AGENCY REC TYPE VERS Rey CLOCK OFFS APPL ANT Z TYPE ANTEHHA DELTA H E N APPROX POSITION XYZ WAVELENGTH FACT Lisz D2 S2 TYPES OF OBSERV INTERVAL TIME OF FIRST OBS TIHE OF LAST Wes OF SATELLITES END OF HEADER Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 RINEX View Header The RINEX Stats view shows the current logging path and the size of the current data file Rev No A Page 115 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 8 8 1 Rev No Date TOOLS v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 The Tools menu offers a small selection of amenities to enhance Verify QC operations Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help laAeulelels sv Lack Config COM Port Mappings Advanced Options Tools Menu Structure LOCK CONFIG The configuration file in use can be secured by means of a password Using Lock Config allows file protection by the entry of a password at least 6 characters long It is recommended that all Users are advised of this password for access to the configuration once it has been locked Locking the configuration file will disable access to configuration menus However users can still change the window display and make any oth
32. GPS or GLONASS observation is not received a dot with the GPS PRN GLONASS slot number is indicated on the colour constellation plot Colour provides additional information on the missing observation type as indicated by the on screen legend Possible causes of missing satellites are masking intermittent tracking due to external interference intermittent tracking due to low signal levels unhealthy satellites Observations for unhealthy satellites will be missing continuously These create a yellow arc on the plot When unhealthy satellites are not reported as being unhealthy by the receiver they will appear as a red arc on the plot Rev No A Page 73 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 e Missing SV Constellation Plot GLONASS L1 Missing L2 Missing True North Both Missing Unhealthy I Missing SV Constellation Plot s lol x loj x L1 Missing L1 Missing L2 Missing L2 Missing Both Missing Both Missing Unhealthy Unhealthy Missing SV Plot Poor Tracking Corrected for Heading View options are selected by right clicking on the view GLONASS can be hidden Hide GLONASS Correct for Heading Clear Buffer Copy Size to Content Missing SV Constellation Plot View Options By default the missing satellites are plotted with azimuths relative to the True North direction These can be corrected for headi
33. GPS receiver only two wires are required in the cable data out from the GPS receiver and ground Rev No A Page 158 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 F VERIFY QC OUTPUTS Verify QC can output the following NMEA sentences see 2 GGA Default GGA PPP GGA DP GGA Alstom GLL GST ZDA GNS VTG Default VTG Old GSA GSV In addition Verify QC can output the following advanced positioning and QC output sentences WesternGeco TRINAV see 4 WesternGeco TRINAV V3 see 5 VERIPOS UKOOA Output see 6 VERIPOS UKOOA 2 Output see 7 GPLCT Veripos Applications Axiom and Orion Heferences 2 4 5 6 7 Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 NMEA 0183 Standard for interfacing marine electronic devices version 3 01 January 1 2002 GPS and RTCM Formats Schlumberger 2002 Third Party Equipment GPS Interface Format WesternGeco 23 February 2009 Document AB R MD 01673 Data Format Definition UKOOA Format 03 October 2005 Document AB V MD 00511 Data Format Definition UKOOA 2 Format 30 June 2006 Page 159 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 F 1 NMEA SENTENCES Rev No Date This section describes the message structure of the following advanced positioning and QC output messages GGA GLL GST
34. QC Demo Data CD Dongle Dongle 2130 has 810 days remaining Verify Ultra JExtra Apex Glonass MICSL Output Tides Heading Calc PPPRef Axiom Otema You can check the dongle enable status in Help Dongle View Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 Page 10 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 3 3 Rev No Date v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 If a function you require is absent contact the VERIPOS helpdesk for information assistance and to order a dongle upgrade USER SELECTABLE FUNCTIONS You can customise the appearance of Verify QC A number of advanced views can be enabled and a number of advanced software options can be disabled to simplify the appearance of the software The dialogue to do this is accessed via Tools Advanced Options Advanced Options Views Options ll iv GLONASS GNSS v Topcon PreFilter v PPP Ref Calculation v Tides iw Almanac GPSEphemeris GPS CCF GPS Measurements v RINEX Logging v CSL Output Glonass Ephemeris Glonass CCF Glonass Measurements IV Always show on start up Differential iv Station Data Iw Apex Corrections mea Advanced Options dialogue The Advanced Options dialogue can also appear on initial start up of the software Enabling disabling views or options will affect which configuration dialogues and associated views are accessible through the Verify QC menu s
35. QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Reference Position k Hide Tracks Hide Table Position Mode 1km Re entre 100m Copy LUm it Dim Size to Content Error Ellipses View Scale Scale can be changed and the plot Re Centred to the current position The Track Plot can be copied to the PC s clipboard as a bitmap image for pasting into applications 7 5 2 Time Series The time series plot is used to monitor the performance of positions calculated over a known period of time Users can select one of five predefined views from the tabs at the top of the display Position Difference UKOOA Statistics Scatter 7 5 2 1 Position The default Position view shows Delta East Delta North amp Delta Height of the calculated positions relative to the reference position selected by the user Right mouse click on the view to select the reference position Time Scale k l is 2clefIgteiff vw rial Point Hide Contrals GPS Stbd Cop Ultra Apex GPS and GLONASS Standard Std Plus IALA Time Series View Reference Position Rev No A Page 99 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 1 5 2 2 7 9 2 3 7 9 2 4 1 5 2 5 Rev No Date Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Difference I Time Series Trial Point Difference 22 50 22 50
36. Ultra 14 30 45 LIT C Latitude WGS84 57 08 42 60811 N Longitude WGS84 002 17 07 05214 W Height WGS84 188 22 m Reduced Height EGM96 137 51m Ant Height 0 00 m Geoid Sep EGMI96 50 72m MSS Tide MSS Not Available Geoid Tide EGM96 137 51 m ultra GPS Advanced Simple Position View Advanced bottom right opens the view showing calculation statistics A Page 86 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Position Ultra Ultra 14 16 37 UTC Latitude WGS84 57 08 42 60646 N Longitude WGS84 002 17 07 04194 W Height WGS84 188 38 m PRN Station Resid ResidSD mde wStat wiest East North Reduced Height EGM96 137 67 m GO2 Ultra 0 371 Passed 0 011 Ant Height 0 00 m G04 Ultra 0 341 Passed 0 008 Geoid Sep EGM9 50 72 m GOF Ultra 0 765 Passed 0 002 MSS Tide MSS 0 16 m G10 Ultra 0 091 Passed 0 010 Geoid Tide EGM96 137 67 m G13 Ultra 0 449 Passed 0 003 Wei UwaGPeo G ute 0 385 Passed 2012 G23 Ultra 0 680 Passed 0 015 RO4 Ultra 0 271 Passed 0 008 Confidence ROS Ultra E 0 291 Passed 0 001 RO Ultra 0 022 Passed 0 008 R13 Ultra E 0 450 Passed 0 004 Degrees of Freedom R14 Ultra 0 487 Passed 0 007 Unit Variance R15 Ultra 0 955 Passed 0 002 RMS R20 Ultra 4 0 042 Passed 0 007 Semi Major R21 Ultra 0 841 Passed 0 004 Semi Minor R22 Ultra E 0 678 Pas
37. a range of 65 through 88 The numbers 89 through 96 are available if slot numbers above 24 are allocated to on orbit spares A Page 164 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Axiom Sentence Veripos Applications The Axiom message is a proprietary message containing the variables required for the VERIPOS INS Module Axiom Structure and Example INS hhmmss ss ddmm mmmmmmm a dddmm mmmmmmm b D P hh h pp p vv v h hh g 99 l ll cc c ss s r rr t tt u uu w ww x Xx y yy z zz nnnn gp xx x gp gl xx x gl c CR LF GPINS 120102 00 5708 7102489 N 00217 1179453 W 1 1 0 6 1 1 0 9 137 57 50 72 27 20 190 853 0 007 0 04 0 04 0 03 124 22 0 04 0 04 0 04 0081 10 02 04 05 07 10 16 20 23 29 30 9 04 05 06 13 14 15 20 21 22 5A INS VERIPOS NMEA Super message hhmmss ss UTC of position ddmm mmmmmmm Latitude of position a N or S latitude hemisphere dddmm mmmmmmm Longitude of position b E or W longitude hemisphere D Differential indicator 0 false 1 true P Precise indicator 0 false 1 true hh h HDOP max 99 9 pp p PDOP max 99 9 VV V VDOP max 99 9 h hh Antenna altitude above mean sea level 9 99 Geoidal height l l Age of differential GPS data CC C Course over ground SS S Speed over ground rrr RMS value of the standard deviation of the range inputs to the navigation process Range inputs include pseudo ranges and diffe
38. and GLONASS SVs calculations follows the syntax x y with x being the number of GPS Mode satellites and y being the number of GLONASS satellites Positional Dilution of Precision indicates the strength of the geometry for PDOP determining a 3D position estimate and a basic accuracy indicator Rev No A Page 85 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 7 4 2 Rev No Date If Verify QC detects a problem in a position calculation the name of the calculation in the Calculation Status view changes colour A yellow background indicates a warning about possible position quality degradation whilst red text indicates a calculation failure Other possible causes of the name field changing to yellow will be the loss of a reference station or a high DOP value as shown below 13 January 2012 13 37 28 UTC tra BU1 Diff GF 0 690 1G 4 66 Apex Apex GPS 0 042 11 1 493 Standard L1 Diff GPS 0 690 TE 4 620 Calculation Status Warning Position View Calculation Position first opens the Simple version of the position view This displays the calculation name the time UTC and the geographical coordinates No statistical parameters are shown Height is the height above the Geoid model selected by the user in Config Calculation Settings either EGM96 EGMOS or a user defined Geoid separation Position Ultra
39. characters A Page 160 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 o GGA Alstom number of SV s is limited to 12 and the sentence length can exceed 82 characters The latency value equals the actual latency divided by 12 for DGNSS solutions and divided by 36 for the Ultra or Apex solution o GGA PPP number of SV s can exceed 12 and sentence length can exceed 82 characters The DGPS QI parameter offers the full range from 0 9 It will show 5 for an Apex or Ultra solution and 2 for a DGPS solution Increased precision 7 decimals for Lat amp Lon NMEA GLL Sentence The NMEA GGL sentence provides 2D position data Structure and Example GPGLL ddmm mmmmmmm a dddmm mmmmmmm b hhmmss ss S l cceCR LF GPGLL 5708 7104685 N 00217 1169613 W 062859 00 A D 72 GLL sentence defined GLL Geographic position Latitude and Longitude ddmm mmmmmmm latitude of position a Nor S dddmm mmmmmmm longitude of position b EorW hhmmss ss UTC of position S status A data valid V data not valid mode indicator A Autonomous D Differential E Estimated M Manual S Simulator N data Not valid cc lt CR gt lt LF gt checksum carriage return and line feed NMEA GST Sentence The NMEA GST sentence provides error statistics of the position fix These statistics follow from the position calculation process Stru
40. delete an existing Tides logging file select the Delete files after archiving tick box A Page 59 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 6 3 Rev No Date Archive Tide Logging Data Directory Documents and SettinestTrainingXDesktopiTides 13121711 File Splitting None Delete files after archiving Archive Cancel Tides Archive Dialogue Box The file naming conventions for logged archived data will vary dependant on the file Splitting option which is selected None Tidelnfo txt Daily Tidelnfo YYMMDD txt Weekly Tidelnfo GPSWWWNW txt WWWW is the GPS week number Monthly Tidelnfo YYMM txt e e e e Note Sprint txt and Doodson txt file naming conventions will follow the same pattern as above For weekly files Sunday is defined as the first day of the week POP UP DOP WARNINGS DOP Warnings inform the users about future periods of bad geometry or low satellite count They appear at the centre screen with an audible alarm Advance DOP warnings alert the user about the weakness of the available GNSS constellation in the work area More detailed information is available from the DOP View when the icon button is selected The DOP Warnings appear if the number of SV s is 6 and if PDOP is gt 10 during the next 12 hours The DOP view shows the elevation mask setting It may be possible to inc
41. drift GLONASS Almanac Data ta Time of issue given as GPS week and GPS time GLONASS satellite channel number health A satellites health is established by the GLONASS Control Centre and from there a satellite is either flagged as healthy 1 or not Current date Calendar number of day within four year interval starting from a leap year A Longitude of the first ascending node in PZ 90 coordinate system t Li Eccentricity 0 O AN AT ATdot loi N A ta Time of the first ascending node passage W Argument of perigee Ai correction to the mean value of inclination AT Correction to the mean value of Draconian period ATdot Rate of change of orbital period Time correction to GLONASS time scale vs UTC SU By clicking on the blue UTC in the GPS Almanac section the Almanac UTC data will be shown GPS Almanac UTC Data DN DN Daynumber Delay time due to leap seconds A Page 138 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 GPS Almanac UTC Data Fee 09 36 24 o 0000000000 o 0000000000 16 405504 OOUDOOOO000 1771 1694 OF 16 GPS Almanac UTC Data By clicking on the blue lono in the GPS Almanac section the Almanac lono data will be shown GPS Almanac lono Data Time of issue given as GPS week and GPS time The coefficients of a cubi
42. eneatere ene T een ee a eee ene en eee ee erence 155 E2 ERR CR RE 157 F VERIFY OC OUTPUTS m H 159 E NMEA SENTENCE E 160 G TIDES LOGGING FILE e NK E 180 H ONSS RECENVER GIST e 186 l VERIPOS CONTACT DETAILS AND OFFICE LOCATIONS eeeeee eee enenne nennen nnns 187 Rev No A Page 3 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Is INTRODUCTION This manual covers the e installation e configuration e operational procedures of the VERIPOS Verify QC software for Microsoft Windows 7 and XP The Verify QC suite of processing software provides real time position with quality control information for the professional positioning user It contains full calculation configuration flexibility with performance monitoring The Verify QC functionality is scalable in concept It is expandable with many specific features enabled through a USB Parallel software key dongle providing user flexibility and simplicity of operation The software provides a window into the complete position derivation process by capturing both GNSS observation and received augmentation data Multiple calculation permutations can be configured providing complete visibility of all parameters with associated quality control qc112capt Verify File Config Logging Action View T
43. enter the IP address and port number For Veripos equipment the information is available from the Quick Guides or the Operations manual for the receiver downloadable from VOSS To check that communications are established 1 open the IO view from the main menu View IO 2 For serial connections check the GNSS data and check the baud rate is correct a successfully decoded data appears as green text within the IO view b scrolling text is shown in red where data cannot be decoded incorrect receiver type or incorrect baud rate c no text appears is no data is received Where red text is shown or no text is displayed users should step through possible baud rate settings of the GNSS receiver and ensure these settings match in the GNSS receiver and Verify QC Rev No A Page 17 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 2 CONFIGURE RTCM INPUT 4 2 1 Configure RTCM Input To add an RTCM input click Config RTCM Input New OM Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help GN Receiver RT LM Input Calculation Position Output CSL Output RTCM Input This will open the following dialogue RICM Input Mame Station Data Iw Veripas Seconda ry via NTRIP mode user Configurable Beam AORIE stations Aberdeen 777 Wick 701 Metherlands 702 Bodo 703 Kri
44. files in the proprietary Verify QC logging format The data can be archived and replayed at a later time to provide the same information as seen real time enabling additional offline analysis to be undertaken 5 1 1 Edit Logging ALF Edit allows the user to set up the logging path and the desired file size prior to starting the logging process Logging Control Directory Ce rify Logged Raw Data Browse Max Size aor Maximum Ze Mone continuous EJ Logging Control Enter the logging file Max Size Default is 1400kB Files are logged for fault finding may be emailed and the recommended file size is 1400kB Rev No A Page 46 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 When logging data for review and archive purposes the recommended file size is 2000 5000kB The maximum allowable file size is 10 000kB Once a file reaches the set maximum file size Verify QC will open a new additional file automatically and assign a unique name using date and time of file creation QC 1 12B allows archiving of data to a USB memory stick in the root directory Within the Maximum Age field Verify QC offers options to clear old log files at intervals of e None continuous Default e Daily 24 hour e Weekly 7 day e Monthly 31 day N B a 31 day month will be used irrespect
45. flow continuously Note you cannot change the baud rate until you have established communications with the receiver via a serial port See earlier sections describing the procedure for set up of serial port GPS comms Rev No A Page 57 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Selecting Action Receiver Set Receiver Baud Rate to select a different baud rate The software sends commands to the receiver to change the baud rate and attempts connection at this new baud rate Baud Rate Monitor Baud Rate Set Receiver Baud Rate dialogue 6 1 5 Send Command Action Receiver Send Command allows specific commands to be sent to the receiver These must conform to the receivers proprietary command structure Refer to manufacturer s documentation for details Send Command to Receiver X N SENDING COMMANDS MAY STOP VERIFY QC FROM OPERATING CORRECTLY Send Message Note take care when sending additional commands to the receiver These may interfere with normal operation of Verify QC Rev No A Page 58 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 6 2 MSS TIDES 6 2 1 6 2 2 Rev No Date Note the Tides function is a dongle controlled advanced function of the Verify QC software Ensure your dongle is enabled for MSS Tides
46. for this 12 Variable Fix 00 99 Ids of the Reference Stations used in the I5 n 1 14 Variable ee Fix are space separate rendofCharacir mm Gergen meta Field Formats Ax Alphanumeric text Ix Integer Field Fx y Floating point field Where X gives the total length including the decimal point and decimals y the number of decimals If a sign or is included in the field the sign must be immediately adjacent to the number it relates to with no spaces in between i e 3 12 Alphanumeric text fields must be left justified and numeric fields must be right justified The field sizes are selected with a space between each field This aids manual readability and protects against overflow Rev No A Page 173 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title v eripos itle Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Comments 1 9 Record Identifier Age of Record Altitude Above MSL Geoid Separation Fix Status Codes Single Frequency Status Code Meaning sis No or Bad Fixes Altitude Aiding Weighted Height used in Fix shows the calculation used as different calculations can be labelled 1 2 3 etc time of the first character of the data string being output minus the time of position the datum for height calculations separation between mean sea level and the WGS84 reference ellipsoid based
47. information is averaged to remove the impact of heave A 10 minute averaging interval is recommended for the Tides calculation Output every second When this box is checked the interval of the real time output of tides message is 1 second The message is repeated for the period set in the Tides Interval and is updated with the new values after the interval has passed The Tides logged files Tides Info and Sprint are unaffected by this check box they are updated after the interval period Time Reference The Time reference is the time stamp format used in the UltraTides TidesInfo message e HH MM SS This time format is Hour Minutes Seconds in UTC e GPS This time format is seconds starting at 00 00 00 6 Jan 1980 Output Format MSS Tides can output the Tides information via Serial Port Server Socket or Datagram in addition to the Tides information being logged to file The Output Format selects the format of data that will be output on the selected IO Device The output format can be set to UltraTide or SPRINT Details of these formats can be found in Appendix G The Ultra Tide output will not include values for Doodson MSS Tide and Draft for the first 39hrs of use Verify QC will re calculate all Tide values and update the existing Tidelnfo txt file once it has enough data to populate the Doodson filter Any separate records made using real time output will not benefit from this feature Geoid Model Verify QC v1 12B supports
48. on a Geoid model as for example EGM96 Altitude hold 2D Fix Dual Frequency 4 is added to the above values when positioning is set up for dual frequency calculations StatusCode Meaning O 1 0 0 No or Bad Fix eines hold 2D Fix e Altitude Aiding Weighted Height used in Fix Internal Reliability External Reliability Co variance 95 Error Ellipse 10 Orientation 11 F Test Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 smallest outlier that is likely to be detected by the current solution maximum positional effect of an undetectable error in an observation This quantity is related to the Power of the test probability that the MDE would be detected and the Significance level used The Variance and Covariance terms are elements from the variance covariance matrix of the position fix computation un scaled Shows 95 confidence level of the semi major and semi minor axis of the error ellipse Orientation of the semi major axis degrees from true North A test applied to the Unit Variance A Fail may result from large outliers in the measurements Page 174 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 VERIPOS UKOOA 2 Sentence Example PO 1741590150906006W570743144N0020445062E0256M 3010007175008005021001P01002200606090607101316212325300036477770170270500 0000000000000A6 VERIPOS UKOOA 2 sentence defined zem D fma one um com
49. options NONE Stop Bits Po Serial Port Options Rev No A Page 132 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 C 2 Rev No Date The Port number is a sequential number corresponding to the communication port on the computer When using a multi port board Digi Decision SI 8 board the Port numbers will increment from the permanent ports as shown in the example below Com1 Computer Com1 Com2 Computer Com2 Com3 Digi 1 Com4 Digi 2 Etc Detailed information for the PC s available ports can be found under Device Manager which is a sub section of the System Manager in the Windows Control Panel A Com port already in use by Verify QC or another application on the PC will be labelled as in use in the Port pull down menu It can still be selected but Verify QC cannot open this port as it is locked by the Operating System Select the correct Baud rate This must match the settings of the device connected to Verify or the setting required for the output string Data Bits Parity and Stop Bits can be changed if the interfaced device does not use the 8 NONE 1 protocol CLIENT SOCKET GPS RTCM and Demodulator Status data can be received from other applications on the network using Client Sockets with the TCP IP protocol Typically a GPS receiver or a VERIPOS Demodulator can be connected to a networked computer usi
50. selected Geoid model Points are added at the user selected interval Geoid Tide a time series plotting the minimum maximum and mean height of the vessel waterline relative to the user selected Geoid model Points are added at the user selected interval MSS Tide Time series plotting the minimum maximum and mean height of the vessel waterline relative to the Tide filter estimate of Mean Sea Surface Values displayed are called the MSS Tide Points are added at the user selected interval Rev No A Page 91 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Hourly Height Time series plotting the minimum maximum and mean height of the GPS antenna relative to the user selected Geoid model Points are added at an hourly interval Hourly Tide Time series plotting the minimum maximum and mean height of the vessel waterline relative to the Tide filter estimate of Mean oea Surface Values displayed are called MSS Tide Points are added at an hourly interval MSS Reference Time series plotting the Tide filter estimate of Mean Sea Surface Points are added hourly Draft Change Time series plotting the change in Draft This is calculated as the current Doodson value minus the Doodson value for the first record Vertical Bias Time series plotting the vertical bias detected between MSS Tide and Geoid Tide User Entered Antenna Time series plotting the U
51. survey applications but could be applied equally to DP applications Rev No A Page 156 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No E 2 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 NMEA 0183 STANDARD The National Marine Electronics Association NMEA has developed a specification defining the interface between various pieces of marine electronic equipment The standard permits marine electronics to send information to computers and to other marine equipment via a serial interface A full copy of this standard is available for purchase at their web site www nmea org The current version of the standard is 3 01 GPS receiver communication is defined within this specification The idea of NMEA is to send a line of data called a sentence that is totally self contained and independent from other sentences There are standard sentences for each device category and in addition NMEA permits hardware manufactures to define their own proprietary sentences for whatever purpose they see fit All standard sentences have a two letter prefix defining the device using that sentence type For GPS receivers the prefix is GP followed by a three letter sequence defining the sentence contents All proprietary sentences begin with the letter P and are followed with 3 letters identifying the manufacturer controlling that sentence NMEA consists of sentences the first word of which called a da
52. systems Rev No A Page 48 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 To set replay parameters click Logging ALF Replay Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help Replay The following dialogue box will be displayed Directory is the same as that set under Logging ALF Eait Use the Browse button if required to locate the logged data Select Replay Files xj Directory cp ject Werify QC Datars LF Browse File Information Namie pplication Verify rap noris eg m peter 877 200 Start morie 1 12 sl zn t00717 125727 Select Replay Files Verify QC will start scanning the logging directory for logging files and show a progress bar Scanning Replay Files Replay Files Progress Bar When the logging session and logging file availability have been determined select the required Logging Schedule from the drop down at Schedule Note Different schedules will only be available if there are more than one set of logged data in the selected directory Rev No A Page 49 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 SelectReplayries xi Directory crProjectatwerity QC Data LF Browse File Information Name Application Verify Versian 1 05 schedule 100716 191
53. the GNSS Availability View The view is split into an availability bar indicating the availability of GPS and GLONASS measurement sets against the present day s 24 hour time scale and an availability table indicating the availability of GPS and GLONASS measurements against 5 elevation brackets The availability bar appears continuous with a green colour for all measurement sets A missing measurement set will appear as a black vertical line to indicate a break in the GPS and or GLONASS data input A missing measurement set may be caused by a break in the data connection to the receiver corruption of the data stream or total loss of data due to interference Rev No A Page 106 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 The availability table will for each 5 elevation bracket indicate what percentage of expected CA L1 and L2 observations were received in Verify QC Percentage values less than 10096 may for example be caused by low elevation antenna masking or intermittent tracking due to interference A Status Report GNSS Availabilty Status Report View GNSS Availability Note which observation types are monitored depends on the GNSS receiver type The Septentrio AsteRx2 receiver for example does not output L1 observations and the column therefore will appear blank when using that GNSS receiver type The view options dialogue acce
54. the use of a Mean Sea Surface MSS model relative to which the user can estimate tides The Mean Sea Surface is the displacement of the sea surface relative to a mathematical model of the earth It closely follows the Geoid approximated by EGM models though with additional Mean Dynamic Topography deviations due to A Page 38 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 4 5 9 4 4 6 4 4 6 1 Rev No Date currents etc The Geoid Model has 3 options available and can be selected from Config Calculation Settings For further information regarding geoid models within Verify QC see section 4 4 1 3 Currently the DTU10MSS model is unavailable for use with Verify QC As a result the DTU10MSS will remain unavailable for selection within the Tides configuration select Config Calculation MSS Tides to configure the Tides calculation Directory c Users Administrator Desktop Position h Talker h Interval 10 minutes Output Every Second Time Reference HH MM SS Output Format uttraTide Tides dialogue IO Device The O Device section supports Real time Tides output via Serial Port Server Socket or Datagram PPP Ref Calculation The PPP Ref calculation Config Calculation PPP Ref Calculation uses the current position of the Apex or Ultra calculation as a virtual reference station location
55. uploaded by the control segment D 6 GLONASS CCF The GLONASS CCF view and its options are similar to that of GPS See section B 3 The GLONASS slot numbers are used to identify the individual GLONASS satellites D 7 GLONASS MEASUREMENTS This view displays information about the GLONASS measurements received and decoded by Verify QC The top row shows the GPS GLONASS receiver date and time expressed by the GPS week number the day and GPS Time WIGLONASS Measurements iBl x Freq Doppler CA L1 L2 CA L1 L2 CA Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 22895113 26 22895113 55 22895120 29 23436130 B3 23436129 64 23436138 49 22150328 84 22150327 33 22150334 40 1969838 93 1969B83B6 77 19698393 30 122387530 571 122387531 832 95190329 081 125411474 696 125411475 948 97542287 019 118489313 600 118489314 857 92158371 633 105336119 746 105336121 005 B1928133 756 GLONASS Measurements View 3852 327 3852 332 2996 257 3472 147 3472 149 2700 559 4453 803 4453 801 3464 066 1241 557 1241 556 965 653 Page 147 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 GLONASS Measurement Data Slot Shows the dedicated satellite number as assigned to the satellites orbital oath Indicates the increment or decrement of the satellite transmitting frequency Chan from the F1 frequency Elev Elevation angle measured in degrees
56. v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 GNSS Receiver 4 1 1 1 GNSS Name 4 1 1 2 4 1 1 3 Rev No Date When no entry is made against Name for a GNSS receiver the default name of GNSS Rx is inserted automatically For ease of reference it is recommended to change this name to the name or model of the GNSS receiver used E g Topcon Septentrio Trimble etc Where more than one Verify QC system is installed on a vessel it is good working practice to give the receivers unique and more descriptive names such as Port Fwad etarboard Aft or Primary and Secondary This makes it easier to distinguish between the systems and aids troubleshooting GNSS Type Selections of GNSS receiver types are available and are viewed in this drop down menu Consult your order confirmation details to determine the receiver card installed in your VERIPOS hardware A list of the current GNSS receiver types and default baud rate used is available in the Appendix Note If using a Topcon or Javad receiver please refer to the Topcon Prefilter section Section 3 4 of this manual IO Device The O Device section supports GNSS receiver inputs from Serial Port Client Socket or Datagram serial Port Client Socket and Datagram connection details are detailed in the Appendix For Serial Ports Verify QC must initially be configured to match the existing baud rate of the receiver SO communications may be es
57. views or software options using Tools Advanced Options Advanced Options Options iv GLONASS V Topcon PreFilter V PPP Ref Calculation Tides RINEX Logging V CSL Output Almanac GPS Ephemeris GPS CCF GPS Measurements Glonass Ephemeris w Always show on start up Glonass CCF Glonass Measurements Differential iw Station Data V Apex Corrections oma Advanced Options dialogue The Advanced Options dialogue also appears on start up of the software Enabling disabling views or options affects the functionality and views accessible through the Verify QC menu structure The Advanced Views appear deselected by default If views are enabled their enable status is stored in the configuration file such that the same view will be available when the user re opens the configuration file The Options currently supported by the dongle are all selected by default in a new configuration Several additional options can be selected Options not supported by the dongle are greyed out For options selected or deselected the selection status is stored in the configuration file such that the option is set correctly when the configuration file is re opened The manual covers all option dependent functionality and views by describing the full menu structure If certain functionality or views are absent the user is advised to check the dongle enable status under Help Dongle View and the selections under Tools Advance
58. were entered El 29 January 2009 16 32 26 Configuration Change Calculation Controller Elevation Mask changedfrom 10 to 13 29 January 2009 15 19 15 Configuration Saved Note Filename C Work VenfyTestiv1 0 El 29 January 2009 15 19 12 Configuration Change Logging Directory changed from Data to C Data 29 January 2009 15 18 51 Configuration Saved Note Filename C Work VernfyTesti1 0 29 January 2009 15 18 36 Configuration Saved Note Filename C Work VernfyTestiv1 0 29 January 2009 15 18 14 Configuration Saved Note Filename C Work VerfyTestiv1 0 El 29 January 2009 15 17 48 Configuration Change RTCM Input Station Data Veripos changed from AOR E to 25E Wick 701 Alphen 702 Bodo 703 Kristiansund 704 Tananger 705 Falmouth 706 Pescara 708 Marbella 710 29 January 2009 15 17 27 Confieuration Change RTCM Input Added RTCM Input 29 January 2009 15 16 56 Configuration Change GPS Receiver 29 January 2009 15 16 35 Configuration Change GPS Receiver Rev No A Page 112 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Config Change Log View In addition to the software storing all configuration changes automatically the user can add notes to the log XML file The Add Notes to Config Change Log dialogue will open following a right mouse click on the view and selecting Add to Log Add Notes to Co
59. zl DK2 DK38 Networking File Versions Version A2 DK2 Driver w 32bit AFI 5 35 0 155 w 16bit API 3 83 0 4 v Kernel Mode Driver 3 110 083 w Virtual DOS Device 1 64 1 1 PC Card Enabler 0 00 vw USB Device Driver 6 6 0 6 vw DK2 Network Client API 6 16 0 88 v DE2 Remote Server Monitor B 17 0 63 wv USB Device Driver 6 26 0 67 3zhit File Versions Page Version 1 06 0 6 DESkey Configuration File Versions Rev No A Page 131 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 C DEVICE IO DESCRIPTIONS This appendix outlines the functionality of the O Device options in the configuration dialogues The Verify QC software supports a number of communication types for data input and output as described below None Serial Port Chent Socket Server Socket IO Device Communication Types All communication types available within the software are displayed in the drop down IO Device menu The list has been customised such that only input communication types are available in input dialogues and vice versa Each communication method is described in the following sections C 1 SERIAL PORTS Serial ports are the physical connections to the hardware The settings depend on the device being used or the data being output Select Serial Port connection type from the IO Device menu to access the serial port configurations
60. 0 06 36 16 956 N 001 43 31 122 E 0 06 44 60 0 09 i 0 09 36 16 956 N 001 43 31 116 E 0 07 44 60 0 10 0 10 36 16 962 Hl 001 43 31 116 E 0 07 44 60 Converged 10 0 08 t d 0 08 36 16 956 N 001 43 31 116 E 0 12 44 60 5 March 2007 00 0 06 0 06 52 36 16 956 N 001 43 31 116 E 0 11 44 60 cues 50 0 08 f i 0 08 52 36 16 956 N 001 43 31 116 E 0 08 44 60 Active 40 d 0 06 0 06 36 16 962 N 001 43 31 116 E 0 08 44 60 9 11 30 P i 36 16 962 N 001 43 31 116 E 44 60 36 16 962 Hl 001 43 31 116 E 44 60 36 16 968 N 001 43 31 116 E 44 60 36 16 962 N 001 43 31 116 E 44 60 36 16 962 N 001 43 31 116 E 44 60 36 16 962 N 001 43 31 116 E 44 60 36 16 962 N 001 43 31 116 E 44 60 36 16 962 N 43 31 116 E KON GN Y 03 03 07 04 03 07 05 03 07 Tides View Table and Time Series Rev No A Page 92 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 The Tides View includes several sections including the Tidal Height table the MSS Calculation table the Input Status Table the Current Status table and the time series graph Tidal Height table Standard deviation of height values included in average Latitude Latitude at given time Longitude Longitude at given time Average of semi major of height values included in average Geoid Sep Separ
61. 02 Bodo 703 Kristiansund 04 Tananger F05 Falmouth r6 Height Aid o DGNSS Calculation Stations The stations will appear differently if you selected Closest 10 Stations under the RTCM Input Then the closest VERIPOS stations all have a prefix Cn in front of their name DGNSS Calculation Stations using Closest RTCM Input Stations Selecting C1 and C3 means that the 1 and the 3 closest stations will be used in the calculation independent of their station name or station ID This means that the data for the closest 4 station will automatically take the place of the closest 3 station in case the latter is no longer received Similarly closest non VERIPOS stations all have a prefix Nn in front of their names Rev No A Page 32 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 4 3 Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Mame Made ve ripas Standard d selection Jas Selected Below stations M1 IALA Rx Height Aid o DGNSS Calculation Stations using Closest non VERIPOS RTCM Input Stations Using these closest RTOM Input feature allows the user vessel to roam a larger or even a Global area without the need to closely monitor or update the station selection Checking the Height Aid tick box adds an observation based on the height e
62. 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 6 5 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 ARCHIVE DATA Verify QC maintains automatically a copy of all raw GPS and RTCM input data in proprietary ALF file format By default the last 72 hours of logged data is retained Archived data for previous configurations is retained for 7 days before being removed automatically Action Archive Data selects all or a continuous subset of data and copies it to another location Verify QC 1 12B adds an icon shortcut to the main control bar Fil Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help This feature has been implemented for when software performance issues are identified and data and configuration files have to be forwarded to VERIPOS for further analysis Archive Data x Directory Jcn Browse S start Jo80505_1 30000 ae 080505 10000 v Include Config Files v Include Event Files M Include Status Reports v Open Folder on Completion Archive Data To archive data click Browse and select the location Verify QC will scan automatically and display the available logged data files with the start end times available in drop down menus File name syntax is YYMMDD HHMMSS The Verify QC configuration and status files to be archived are selected by ticking check boxes Note 1 Data can only be archived after the configuration has been saved Not
63. 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 6 6 1 Rev No Date ACTION The Action drop down menu allows for commands to be sent to the processes as shown in the screen below OM erily Fil Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help Receiver Details Mon Tides Initialise DOP Warnings Request Ephemeris CSL Raw Output i3aLoNASS d Request Almanac Archive Data Send Command Request Iono Generate Status Report Import vericChart File Synchronise DC Clock Action Menu RECEIVER Note GLONASS entries in the menu are only available if the dongle has been enabled for GLONASS Establish and Set receiver Baud Rate entries are only available when a GNSS receiver has been connected using a serial port and set to communicate at matching baud rates Details Action Receiver Details displays details of connected receiver hardware and software Details vary on the receiver type used Typically they include the receiver serial number and firmware version Receiver Details m ojx serial Number 235 3012 Firmware Version 3 3 May 05 2008 p1 Boot Loader Version 0 Hardware Version 30 Board Version E GGD 3 Modem Version none Receiver Details View The view will populate only when Verify QC is connected to a receiver This example is for a Topcon receiver A Page 55 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 6 1 2
64. 30 second intervals are more suited to static users Hourly creates a new file every hour Measurement Control The three Measurement Control dialogue boxes C A L1 and L2 are used to select the GNSS observation types to be recorded in RINEX files Note which observation types are available is GNSS receiver dependant Observations not available from the receiver will be greyed out If the receiver only outputs C A measurements L1 and L2 dialogue boxes will be greyed out Similarly if receiver outputs C A and L1 measurements but not L2 the L2 dialogue box will be greyed out The Marker Antenna Observer and Comments inputs allow configuration of the header within the RINEX file It is recommended these are as complete as possible to aid post processing and identification Click Confirm to complete the RINEX logging configuration Following this the Record Play and Pause control buttons are visible in Tool Bar Note users are required to manually start RINEX logging after setting the following parameters for measurement control A Page 53 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Manually start RINEX logging by selecting the Start RINEX Logging control button on the toolbar or Logging RINEX Start Rev No A Page 54 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1
65. 44 20587974 067 110911426 534 110911426 779 86424505 624 125133103 125 125133103 376 97506327322 123053357 853 123053358 097 95885753 407 1266 9253 330 12667 9753 624 98711111 263 10994441 7 115 10994441 7 370 85670997 561 1301552722 351 130155223 612 101419648 610 2189 575 2189 576 1706 165 3627 871 3627 853 2826 908 1121 420 1121 422 873 822 3454 024 3454 019 2691 445 2757 573 2757 582 2148 754 2246 513 2246 504 1750 533 1528 853 1528 826 1191 305 3363 287 3363 2827 2620 750 2430 582 2430 567 1893 962 778 266 778 263 606 447 1325 337 1325 34 7 1032 745 Page 144 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 GPS Measurement Data Pseudo Random Noise code is a unique identification number for each GPS satellite For example if a satellite is referred to as PRN 13 this refers to the satellite transmitting the 13 weekly portion of the P code horizon at the user s location Azi Azimuth is the horizontal angle measured in degrees from north to the zi ae direction of the satellite relative to the user s location Frequency refers to the observation types C A range measurement derived from the Coarse Acquisition Code on the L1 frequency L1 range measurement derived from the carrier at the L1 frequency L2 range measurement derived from the carrier at the L2 frequency oigna
66. 585 PRC Pseudo Range Correction as observed on the L1 pseudo range at the reference station Rate of Change in meters of the pseudo range corrections User Differential Range Error is an estimate of the performance of the satellite pseudo range as measured at the reference station in meters This number is provided as part of the RTCM Type 1 and Type 31 messages in the form of a binary code 0 to 3 0 lt 1 meter at 1 sigma 1 gt 1 meter and lt 4 meter at 1 sigma 2 4 meter and lt 8 meter at 1 sigma 3 8 meter at 1 sigma D 9 ULTRA CORRECTIONS Ultra corrections are shown in the menus when an Ultra capable dual frequency GNSS receiver card is selected The View Differential Ultra Corrections view displays the Ultra corrections received and decoded by Verify QC PRM lODE ge ax AY Az AT Source SFOJSFC Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Primary Ultra Corrections View Rev No A Page 151 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 The Ultra correction information is listed by GPS PRN number The headings in the table refer to Pseudo Random Noise code This is a unique identificati
67. 642 8 7 2010 Start Natak 100719 125346 End M00717 125727 Mates oe Replay Schedule Selection otart and stop times will be displayed and the replay period can be amended using drop down menus Select Replay Files X Directory cproject Wverify QC Dataa LF Browse File Infarmatian Name Application Verify Wersion 1 09 Schedule 100719 125346 Date 8 7 2010 start 100719 125346 End 100722 171608 29 46 54 2913 N 095 20 29 7632 Ww 43 8 ames Time span of Replay data After replay period is set click OK Review the replay mapping window and confirm all data to be replayed is active displays an A in the left hand column If passive P and you require it to be active Double click on the data string to display the Set Mode menu Change the mode to active and click OK Similarly an active string can be made passive if not required in the replay Rev No A Page 50 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Set Replay Mapping x GPS Ephemeris GPS Ephemeriz Almanac gt Almanac P Primary GPS 10 A RTCM Input 25E IO RTCA Input ETEM 10 Output Network of 3 IO gt Output Ultra Files 104 P Ri Ultra M P Tu Ultra lo P Output IO ae o UM M Activating Replay Data When Replay Mapping has been
68. 8 SIATION DATA Rev No Date A single view per station is used to show the reference station information as contained in the correction messages The view has a GPS section for the GPS range correction data in the Standard messages and a GLONASS section for the GLONASS range correction data in the GLONASS messages Two separate sections show the received WGS84 and PZ 90 reference station coordinates ei Ditterentiak Kristiansund 704 iPS 1478 Tuesday 15 05 24 0 GPS 03 d 0 000 oo 011 Longitude DO07 47 01 436867 E 06 359 3 898 11 3 32 115 07 3 52 0 000 00 006 istan 858Km 08 35 4 96 0 000 00 10 7 246 2 709 B42 5 7 0 000 00 GLONASS Location 13 2 6 615 12 958 19 68 0 000 00 05 63 06 41 15357 N 15 24 275 9 46 0 000 00 068 Longitude 007 47 01 26217 E 19 5 237 15 54 231 20 0 000 00 03 32 184 21 19 329 3 315 7 12 12 0 000 00 o Standard Shift 24 25 23 066 4 230 5 89 10 8 0 000 Uu 00 02 050 4 961 38 555 31 229 4 057 4 552 Figure 1 Differential Data View The reference station location is required to calculate the elevation and azimuth of the satellites at the reference station as well as their ionospheric and tropospheric model information This information is obtained from the RTCM Type 3 message The Type 3 is displayed in the Location box If no Type 3 is received for a non VERIPOS station it is assumed to be local i e at
69. 9 1 06Verify 1 1392 491778 0 0 4 45 4 57 07 719007N 002 04 750811W 25 781 450 28 1 389 0 775 1 152 319 258 0 781 0 13 1 398 40 125 0 656 1 635 1 75 0 81 004 3 P 10 01 02 05 06 07 16 21 23 25 30 4 0777 0701 0702 0705 VERIPOS UKOOA sentence defined Genen Format A5 A6 l2 I5 Open string Number of characters SE OO BEEN dd mm mmmmm space 1 Software Version O Record Identifier m GPS Week Number mp o 1 2 0 1 11 6 17 1 3 19 23 GPS Time of Fix 9 1 24 32 Nor S dd mm mmmmm space e Antenna height above mean sea level See comment 3 Latitude Hemisphere Indicator N or S Pa fw Longitude F13 6 58 71 Longitude Hemisphere AM Indicator E or W Altitude above MSL 80 87 GedSepwabn ms as Se SS SS Latitude F13 6 44 56 7 vo 10 18 Fasas mam 12 95 Error Ellipse Semi P 160 165 Major Axis 1 2 F6 95 Error Ellipse Semi F6 166 6 Minor Axis n Orientation Of Semi F 172 177 See comment 10 Major Axis of Error F _ Test P Pass A2 178 179 See comment 11 F Fail Rev No A Page 172 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 No of Satellites used in the Fix n Landis BEEN Satellite PRN Numbers n PRN numbers have format ID and are ro U9 n 1 1l2 Variable of Satellites used in Fix space separated Number of Reference Stations used
70. A autonomous D differential E Estimated N not valid S Simulator Sometimes there can be a null value as well Only the A and D values correspond to an active and reliable sentence This mode character has been added to the RMC RMB VTG and GLL sentences and optionally some others including the BWC and XTE sentences The hardware interface for GPS receivers is designed to meet the NMEA requirements They are compatible also with most computer serial ports using RS232 protocols however strictly speaking the NMEA standard is not RS232 They recommend conformance to EIA 422 The interface speed generally can be adjusted but the NMEA standard is 4800 baud with 8 bits of data no parity and one stop bit All GPS receivers supporting NMEA should support this speed Note that at a baud rate of 4800 you can easily send enough data to more than fill a full second of time At 4800 baud 480 characters per second can be sent As an NMEA sentence can be as long as 82 characters this can be limited to less than six different sentences The actual A Page 157 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 limit is determined by the specific sentences used and it is easy to overrun the capabilities for rapid sentence response A cable is required to connect to the GPS receiver output Data can be output also via Ethernet or wireless connection For general NMEA use with a
71. Atel OEM4 G2 2 9600 NovAtel OEMV 9600 Veripos LD4 115200 Veripos LD5 115200 Veripos LD6 115200 Veripos LD7 115200 Internal Card inside LDx Receiver or External Standalone Receiver External Standalone Receiver Rev No A Page 186 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No VERIPOS CONTACT DETAILS AND OFFICE LOCATIONS Rev No Date A AB V MA 00585 VERIPOS UK Veripos House p 1B Farburn Terrace a Dyce cd Aberdeen AB21 7DT Scotland United Kingdom Veripos Helpdesk help veripos com Tel 44 0 1224 965900 For regional office locations please visit www veripos com 06 05 2015 v eripos Page 187 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual
72. Calculation Status window View Calculation Status If left blank Verify QC will assign a name automatically based on the number of reference stations selected e g when 5 stations are selected the software will assign the name Network of 5 When one station is selected the name of that station will be assigned as the name of the calculation 4 4 2 2 DGNSS Calc Mode Choose the desired calculation Mode Uncorrected VERIPOS Standard VERIPOS Standard or GLONASS Only Please note that the VERIPOS demodulator will have to be enabled accordingly for the individual services required within Verify QC 4 4 2 3 DGNSS Calc Selection When Selection is set to As Selected Below the user can manually select a preferred list of stations from the Stations list for use within the calculation This list is derived from the stations that were defined under Config RTCM Input Alternatively a Closest Station calculation can be created Verify QC can automatically select the closest between 1 and 6 stations within a 1500km range for use within a calculation Choosing one of these settings means manual selection of stations is no longer presented as an option Rev No A Page 30 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Veripos Standard Selection As Selected Below T Stations Pisa oat Closest 6 Stations Closest 5 Stations
73. Config menu Tides calculation creates Tides estimates relative to two different vertical references e MSS Tides This is calculated relative to Mean Sea Surface e Geoid Tide relative to the Geoid model selected in the Calculations settings dialogue It is an instantaneous tide estimate generated soon after the Tides calculation is initialised The MSS Tides calculation requires 39 hours of historic height information to be available before a tide estimate can be generated Tides Directory oelect the location for the Tides log files A detailed description of all parameters contained in the Tides log files is included in the Appendix Tides Position The position input is defined here Users can choose from Apex and Ultra depending on which features have been enabled on the dongle A Page 37 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 4 5 3 4 4 5 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 5 6 4 4 5 7 4 4 5 8 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 Talker Choose the Talker between VQC and Standard If Standard is selected then the talker ID in the tide output files Tidelnfo txt amp Doodson txt will be UItraTide When VQC is selected the talker ID will be VQCnnnTide where nnn represents the Verify QC version number For example if Verify QC v1 12 is used it will have a talker ID of VQC112Tide Tides Interval Interval is the period over which the height
74. D 0 0 D 0 0 0 0 0 D 0 0 0 D 0 0 0 0 0 Apex Corrections View GPS The Apex correction information is listed by GPS PRN number The headings in the table refer to Rev No A Page 152 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Pseudo Random Noise code This is a unique identification number for each P GPS satellite For example if a satellite is referred to as PRN 13 this refers to the satellite that transmits the 13 weekly portion of the P code gives the user a means of detecting any change in these parameters when the scale factor is 1 time and time that the correction values were generated in seconds Reference to the source processing centre of the Apex corrections within the Source Veripos data network i e 0 3 A transition between sources is managed within the Apex algorithms RN F GPS orbit correction to the ECEF X coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres GPS orbit correction to the ECEF Y coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres GPS orbit correction to the ECEF Z coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres X Y Z X Rate of Change of the GPS orbit ECEF X coordinate correction Y RateofChangeofthe GPS orbit ECEF Y coordinate correction Z RateofChange of the GPS orbit ECEF Zcoordinatecorection time and time that the correction values wer
75. Die zolDC vmoegz127 qnyeiimrqna s GophL chiw aBXxLIarzA es b5so 1017 0 58 36 0 View IO View Verify QC requires the RTCM Type 3 and when using GLONASS stations the RTCM Type 32 to determine the reference station location Where not present the station data will be rejected by Verify QC In order to use reference stations that do not provide Type 3 and or Type 32 message but are at a short range the user needs to tick the box Local Station Verify QC will then assume that this station is at the users location not apply any differential tropospheric and ionospheric models and subsequently use this correction data The GPS to GLONASS datum shift used by the reference station receiver is normally detected automatically from the Type 3 and Type 32 messages Users of non VERIPOS stations need to select the datum shift between the GPS and GLONASS reference frames for the non VERIPOS stations Options available are e Standard shift Topcon Javad default e HTOM shift RTCM v2 3 e NovAtel shift NovAtel default e Zero Shift These shifts have the following predefined Helmert parameters ESTNE T LC Me ec E Standard 00 00 10 00 00 100e6 RTCM If the RTCM decoding of non VERIPOS stations is to be automatic then the option Use Closest 3 should be selected The manual station configuration area is then made Rev No A Page 24 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Docu
76. ERIPOS box The RTCM Input dialogue will change to the following layout Page 22 v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 RICM Input Mame station Data ve ripas P Use Closest 3 Seconda ry via NTRIP Station Edit Delete Input IO Device None SCH Non VERIPOS RTCM Stations Click on New A New Station dialogue helps you to define non VERIPOS stations Mame Station Data Ve ripas KSE ee wl Mame aberdeen RTEA ID 777 E Local Station SIMMS Sule standa rd Shift Standard Shift RTCM Shift MovAtel Shift IO Device None Contirm Cancel New Station Rev No A Page 23 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Enter the station Name and RTCM ID The RTCM ID is obtained from the reference station provider If the RTCM ID is unknown it can be read from the RTCM message header in the Verify QC IO view after the Device IO settings have been entered Select View IO then right click and change the input source to RTCM The RTCM ID is stamped at the start of the decoded RTCM header information in each message In the example below RTCM messages with ID 0505 and 0506 are being input Seit 98West RTCM I nml xl Ds5o5 17 17 0 58 34 8 Ehc1275Rlofr GHSEKGE CHBE1272CEGXIMpw O lt 127 gt 0 Lo Wgm l x Dore BGios
77. Event and Source respectively S cLonAss 107 Verify Event Log GC Work VerifyTest v1 07 GLONASS 107070501 evt File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help 2 8 x DcE cPs clo 02 2224 CRAG Time Mode Event Source 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No GPS Ephemeris Available Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information IODE missing from PRN s 02 04 06 07 10 13 16 20 23 25 27 GPS Receiver TOPCON 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 1 Data for Wick 701 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 1 Data for Bodo 703 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 1 Data for Groningen 702 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information RTCM Input 25E is receiving messages Input Monitor 01 05 07 13 16 Information GPS input Port Opened 9600 8 NONE 1 GPS input 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No GPS Ephemeris Available Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of Insufficient Measurements Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information COMM Constructor GPS input to 9600 8 NONE 1 GPS input 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 1 Data for Pescara 708 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 Ma
78. InstallShield Wizard for Verify v1 12 The Installshield R Wizard will install verify v1 12 on your computer To continue click Next WARNING This program is protected by copyright law and international treaties Verify QC Software Version Read the VERIPOS Software License accept the terms in the license agreement to continue and then click Next ic Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard License Agreement Please read the Following license agreement carefully VERIPOS SOFTWARE LICENSE This license governs the use of any Veripos software products which together with all associated documentation additional modules and future modified versions are collectively and separately referred to in this license as the Software In this license Veripos is referred to as we for derivations thereof and the party authorised to use all or any part of the Software Is referred to as you nr derivations thereof License To llse Software r Pal en 3I accept the terms in the license agreement CO I do not accept the terms in the license agreement InstallShield VERIPOS Software License Rev No A Page 127 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Enter the required customer information on this page and click Next CG Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard Customer Information Please enter your information User
79. MA 00585 A INSTALLING VERIFY QC The Verify QC software is installed from a CD inserted into a PC CDROM drive It contains an auto start feature that will start the installation process automatically If installing from a different location or auto start is not available double click the setup exe file to begin the installation to File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q es 2 Eb L Search jp Folders 35 Date Modified File and Folder Tasks x autorun int 1KB Setup Information 12 08 2005 15 21 m Eetun exe 70 379 KB Application 22 07 2010 17 43 E Make a new folder target ico 4KB Icon 11 02 2005 16 40 DG Publish this Folder to the Web E Share this Folder Verify QC Program Setup A 1 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION When the installation starts the following screen will appear Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard Preparing to Install Verify v1 12 Setup is preparing the InstallShield Wizard which will quide vau through the program setup process Please wai Extracting VeriPy v1 12 msi Screen Display of Preparing to Install Windows Installer v dl Preparing to install Cancel Windows Installer Rev No A Page 126 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Check that the version of Verify QC you are installing is correct and then click Next iz Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard Welcome to the
80. Name ser Organization Meripos Customer Information The default installation directory is C Program Files VERIPOS Click Change if a different location is to be used Select the directory to be used then click Next ig Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard Destination Folder Click Next to install to this Folder or click Change to install to a different Fal Install Verify v1 12 bo C Program Files Veripos Cancel Verify QC Installation Directory Rev No A Page 128 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Check to make sure that all current installation settings are correct Click Install to start the software installation i Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard Ready to Install the Program The wizard is ready to begin installation IF vau want bo review or change any of your installation settings click Back Click Cancel to exit the wizard Current Settings Setup Type Typical Destination Folder Program Files Veripos User Information Mame User Company veripas Verify QC Ready to Install Installation of Verify QC will now commence ie Verify v1 12 InstallShield Wizard Installing Verify 1 12 The program Features you selected are being installed Please wait while the Installshield Wizard installs Verify v1 12 This may take several minutes Status ied
81. No AB V MA 00585 1 The Verify QC dongle is enabled for Ultra and GLONASS 2 GNSS receiver is enabled for GPS and GLONASS has dual channels and is receiving both frequencies 3 The VERIPOS demodulator is enabled for the Ultra Service 4 The Ultra GPS station ID AND GLONASS station ID are enabled on the demodulator output port The Config Calculation Ultra option allows users to select the PPP Mode and up to 4 backup solutions when the Ultra solution is not available The backup solutions can be selected from Apex or the user defined Standard or Standard calculations see New DGNSS Calc section in this manual The PPP Mode dictates which constellation is used in the Ultra calculation This will be GPS Only or GPS and GLONASS PPP Mode is available if Ultra and GLONASS options are enabled on the dongle and GLONASS is ticked in Advanced Options If GLONASS is not enabled on the dongle or ticked in Advanced Options the Ultra calculation will be GPS Only dX Elevation Mask 7 Backup One Backup Two Nc Backup Backup Three Nc Backup e Backup Four Nc Backup PFF Mode Ce GPS Only C GPS and GLONASS oa Ultra dialogue The logic of the backup process is as follows 1 An Ultra solution will be output if the calculation is in Ultra mode and has a minimum of 5 satellites reported in the Calculation Status view 2 Alternatively the Backup One solution will be outpu
82. Rena 1KB ARS File 2 1 2006 1 30 PM E E My Computer E ep WinxP C Fl a Admin Path to logging schedule file Once Path and Notes fields have been completed click OK to start the log When logging commences Verify QC menu options and the toolbar will update to include Pause and Stop buttons Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help Debun el JERAZIT d Pause e Stop Logging Buttons 5 1 3 Replay Replay allows replay of previously logged ALF data In order to replay data the user must use the same configuration files that were used to log the data in addition to actual logged data Verify QC configuration comprises up to four different configuration files Extension Description 1 Verify QC Configuration File am Almanac File contains the GPS Almanac Information Persistence File contains information regarding the screen layout when the user last saved the configuration Type 3 Message File contains the position of the reference stations used in the configuration Logged data comprises two different file types Extension Description gt 1 O alf LogFiles contains all the raw data Logging Schedule File contains the sequence of the log files Also contains the Name and Notes that the user added when starting the logging session Note VERIPOS recommend replay is used only with offline Verify QC
83. S UKOOA2 Output GPLCT Veripos Applications Axiom The NMEA message type allows users to select one or more NMEA sentences Of these the GGA DP GLL GST ZDA GNS VTG Default GSA and GSV all conform to the NMEA v3 0 standard Further options exist for the GGA and VTG sentences Options are e GGA Default number of SV s can exceed 12 and sentence length can exceed 82 characters Increased precision 7 decimals for Lat amp Lon e GGA Alstom number of SV s is limited to 12 and the sentence length can exceed 82 characters The latency value equals the actual latency divided by 12 for DGNSS solutions and divided by 36 for the Ultra and Apex solutions e GGA PPP number of SV s can exceed 12 and sentence length can exceed 82 characters The DGPS Ql parameter offers the full range from 0 9 It will show 5 for an Ultra or Apex solution and 2 for a differential Standard or otandard solution Increased precision 7 decimals for Lat amp Lon e GGA DP fully NMEA 0183 v3 0 compatible string Number of SV s is limited to 12 and the sentence length is restricted to 82 characters e VTG Default conforms to NMEA v3 0 standard e VIG Old conforms to NMEA v2 3 standard The Axiom String is a proprietary string for use with VERIPOS INS Module Axiom Detailed descriptions of Verify QC position output messages are contained in Appendices A Page 43 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Ve
84. Soc Le File Gutput Enable 7 ores CSL Raw Output Allocate a name to the output If no name is entered it will default to CSL Raw Output The Ax ID output must be enabled for it to become active It is in the range of 0 99 and is used by the receiving application to identify the source of the CSL Raw messages The O Device section supports CSL Raw output via Server Socket Datagram and File Output See the Appendix for details Rev No A Page 45 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 5 LOGGING 5 1 Automatic ALF logging Verify QC can log all raw GNSS data and raw RTCM data to files in the proprietary Verify QC logging format Verify QC can also log the GPS data in RINEX Receiver INdependent EXchange format Note Verify QC automatically maintains a copy of all raw GPS and RTCM input data in proprietary files It keeps the last 72 hours of logged data for the current configuration This data is sufficient for most problem diagnostic requirements Subsets of the data may be copied to other locations and sent to VERIPOS The user only needs to manually configure logging if it is required for own needs or to meet the survey specification File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help D cx HEI RINEX Logging menu structure 5 1 ALF Verify QC can be configured to log all GNSS data and RTCM data to
85. Tananger 511km HO Wick z Go2 o7 307 Bod d C4 Netherlands 725km c3 Tananger LU C5 Falmouth 797km D c4 Netherlands wel C6 Kristiansund 864km C5 Fal th C7 Bodo 1412km sla arand C8 Bologna 1687km c9 Hammerfest 1935km C7 Bodo G04 47 290 50 G10 18 261 41 23 to 2s G12 09 4 324 40 24 Bas G13 35 191 47 32 G17 34 s 232 48 38 page C10 Vardo 2149km c8 Bologna EF Q c Hammerfest 12 45 Elevation Azimuth Q c10 vardo IOR 4 mios e E gt s i II Dongle 886 Days Remaining NUM 14 27 18 Verify QC Example Screen Rev No A Page 4 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Verify QC can receive and output data using serial TCP IP communications and data files It operates in real time whilst retaining full functionality in post processing mode The Verify QC software is dongle protected An enabled dongle will need to be attached to the PC running Verify QC before the software can be used You may install Verify QC on a Window OS PC without an enabled dongle but it will not run without an enabled dongle being attached Principal features of Verify QC for Windows 7 and XP are e intuitive use simple to operate and use e user configurable e supports a range of different GNSS receivers e supports all VERIPOS data broadcast ser
86. additional station information or status updates by sending a Type 16 message containing ASCII information up to 90 characters long The Type 16 messages view lists for one or more stations the time of the last received message the number of times the same message has been received the station name and the message S Type 16 Messages f B x 10 56 43 2423 Padova FADO 10 56 46 Courtesy of 5avio Landonio Codevintec and Institute of Agricultural Engineering Milano 10 56 49 2461 Torino Stazione GPS Politecnico dii Torino Type 16 Messages View 7 3 8 Demodulator Status When the Demodulator Status input is enabled on one or more VERIPOS RTOM inputs this view will display the status information View presents a table with decoded information from the last 5 demodulator status messages and a time series view with the minimum red mean blue and maximum green voltage values for the last 24 hours Note this feature does not support the status messages output by VERIPOS LD2S or LD3 G2 demodulators i Demodulator Status 25E Demodulator Status 30 03 07 Demodulator Status View Demodulator Status Table time of the demodulator status message Rev No A Page 81 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Quality Figure representing the percentage of error free data blocks received Y since the pre
87. al GPS in offshore surveying Issue no 1 oept 1994 i e a Significance level of test 196 and the Power of the test 8096 b If values other than those given above are used this must be explicitly stated by the contractor c If no statistical testing takes place in the software or the value is not computed the external reliability must be set to 1 Fix status codes Single Frequency Status Code Meaning o No or Bad Fixes 1 Altitude Aiding Weighted Height used in Fix Altitude hold 2D Fix Dual Frequency 4 is added to the above values when positioning is set up for dual frequency calculations Status Code Meaning O 4 No or Bad Fix Altitude Aiding Weighted Height used in Fix Altitude hold 2D Fix No of ref stations gives the number of reference stations in use for this fix not the number of stations available This field must be set to O if the fix is not differential If numerical data is missing or can not be computed the value must be set to 1 Page 168 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Field Formats Ax Alphanumeric text Ix Integer Field Fx y Floating point field Where X gives the total length including the decimal point and decimals y the number of decimals If a sign or is included in the field the sign must be immediately adjacent to the number it relates to with no
88. and height aided DGNSS calculations The antenna height is used in Tides to reduce the antenna location to the waterline before calculating the GeoidTide values only Hence changes to this parameter will have an immediate effect on the estimated GeoidTide values but will not influence the estimation of the UltraTide values Height aiding can be used to add an extra observation to the position calculation in order to provide additional cover for periods when the GPS constellation is weak or insufficient to calculate a position Height and Height SD values are used when Height Aiding is selected during calculation setup If the Height SD value is reduced the weighting of Height value will increase See relevant sections in this manual The Height SD value entered should represent the total uncertainty of e the accuracy of the GPS antenna height measurement e the expected fluctuations in antenna height due to vessel movements caused by swell e changes in draft and tides e the accuracy of the Geoid model Note Height Aiding does not fix the height Note height aiding should not be used in land locked waterways the Geoid and Mean Sea Levels do not coincide Height aiding is not applied to the Apex and Ultra calculations Fallback Smoothing The Fallback Smoothing option is enabled by default When enabled this smooth s the transition between the Apex Ultra solutions and their fallback backup solutions This is accomplished by break
89. and the software About details DONGLE UPGRADES AND HELPDESK View Help Dongle View allows the user to see the current status of the Verify QC Dongle 1 12 QC Verify Fie Config Logging Action View Tools De eo cPs 30 600 Window stele h Dongle k View Revision History Upgrade User Manual About Help Dongle Menu The Dongle view displays the amount of time left on the dongle activation and the software features enabled for the dongle It also shows the most recent dongle upgrade Confirmation Code which has to be supplied to the VERIPOS Helpdesk after the dongle has been upgraded with new features Verify QC will remind the user by means of a pop up warning box when the dongle has less than 7 days remaining and is about to expire The number of dongle days remaining is also displayed on the Information Bar at the bottom left of the Verify QC screen Dongle MM S 04 Dongle 101 has 874 days remaining Latest Confirmation Code GiD9o verify e Ultra Extra I Apex v Glanass WICSL Output lM Tides Headinz Calc v PPPRaf A Page 120 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 10 1 2 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 Dongle View Dongle Upgrades and Helpdesk Help Dongle Upgrade allows the user to save the current dongle code to a USB memory stick This code is needed to request a
90. atency less than 50 of the threshold latency exceeds 50 of the threshold Red latency exceeds 75 of the threshold The view can be customised to hide the GLONASS column or to hide the key The Time Period can also be changed this will not affect the latency thresholds for each of the correction message types The Key helps to identify each RTCM input Rev No A Page 77 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 7 3 2 Rev No Date A AB V MA 00585 Arrival Mode Show Message Types All Hide Key w Standard Plus vw GLO ASS Time Period b Size to Content Latency View Options The Latency View can operate in a Standard or Arrival Mode Users can set the mode by right click on the screen In Arrival Mode the Latency view only shows the age of the corrections when they arrive In Standard Mode the columns show the correction latency as bars Clicking on blue reference station names will open a Differential Data view for the station Clicking on the blue Ultra name opens the VERIPOS Ultra Corrections view Similarly the VERIPOS Apex Corrections view can be opened by clicking on the blue Apex name Polar Plot Polar Plot displays information regarding the GPS and GLONASS satellite constellations at the users location and at the reference stations This view shows which satellites are in the sky and the status of these
91. ation between the Geoid and the WGS84 reference ellipsoid MSS Calculation table Average of the standard deviation of height values included in average MASS Calculation 85 445 4 March 2007 16 00 00 Tides View MSS Calculation Table Input Status table Status of height input into Tide filter Can show No Position Converging Converged Date for which information is valid Hold off Can show Active or time until hold off period expires Accuracy Shows reported standard deviation of the current height input If the standard deviation exceeds the threshold it also shows the threshold Rev No A Page 93 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Input Status Converged 5 March 2007 11 23 37 19 34 0 24 gt 0 2 Tides View Input Status Table Current Statistics table Shows time and date for the current averaging period Count The number of accepted height input values during the current LN averaging period followed by OK if count exceeds the minimum 50 required to averaging period Maximum height during the current averaging period Current Statistics Centre 11 30 00 22 9 06 Tides View Current Statistics Table 7 4 4 PPP Ref The PPP Ref calculation uses the current position of the selected Apex or Ultra calculation as a virtual reference station location This all
92. c equation representing the amplitude of the vertical delay 4 coefficients The coefficients of a cubic representing the period of the model 4 coefficients Rev No A Page 139 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 GPS G01 GO9 Gi G25 GPS Almanac lono Data JEE E G10 GIS G2 UTC lono GLONASS R01 ROZ RO R10 R17 R18 GPS Almanac lono Data Almanac lono Data RO4 ROS ROB ROF ROS R12 R13 R14 R15 R16 RO TC RZ2 R RA aa 09 36 24 0 0000000233 0 0000000000 0 0000001 192 0 0000001 192 143360 0000000000 196608 0000000000 0 0000000000 196608 0000000000 KE v eripos Page 140 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Document No Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 D 2 GPS EPHEMERIS View GNSS GPS Ephemeris displays the current ephemeris data for each satellite that is being tracked GPS Ephemeris PRN 01 Sele GO1 GOZ G03 G04 GO5 GOK GOF GOB GOI G10 G11 G12 G13 G14 G15 G16 G17 G18 G19 G20 G21 G22 G23 G24 G25 G26 G27 G28 G29 G30 G31 G32 O11 230384 15 59 44 Tue 5153 6 69382310 O 0025957188 153 9 778233692 By 9445303 90 55 0125358851 24 57507 60008 0 OOo 810 0 OO00004 610 O OUOUU0OUL ZD 254 96875 22 09375 0 O00 620053 O 0003711784
93. cle For GPS satellites this is the Pseudo Random Noise code a unique identifier for each satellite GLONASS satellites use the slot number as unique identifier for each satellite Indicates the unique slot in the GLONASS constellation EL Elevation The elevation angle measured in degrees that the satellite resides above the horizon at the user location AZ Azimuth This is a horizontal angle measured in degrees from the north direction to the direction of the satellite This is relative to the user s location CA amp L2 This is the SNR value measured in dBHz of the carrier at frequencies L1 and L2 respectively L2 frequency is only available when using a dual frequency receiver with a dual frequency antenna Rev No A Page 69 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 7 2 2 DOP The DOP view displays data available from the GPS GLONASS Almanac providing a 6 12 or 24hour window used when planning The range of information includes satellite status and location as well as the number of useable satellites above the elevation mask at the users location DOP Topcon Position PRM Eley Az Status 01 O4 046 Below Mask QU 24 305 Healthy DOP Topcon GPS Healthy GDOP 1 855 57 OF 4 N GLONASS Healthy PDOP 1 450 002 04 47 W Unhealthy HDOP 0 773 Disabled 04 57 279 Healthy VDOP 1 227 Mask 10 00 Below Mask 13 577 193 Healt
94. cture and Example GPGST hhmmss ss a aa b bb c cc ddd dd e ee f ff g gg hh lt CR gt lt LF gt GPGST 024603 00 3 2 6 6 4 7 47 3 5 8 5 6 22 0 58 GST sentence defined GST GNSS Pseudo range Error Statistics hhmmss ss UTC time in hours minutes seconds of the GPS position a aa RMS value of the standard deviation of the range inputs to the navigation process Range inputs include pseudo ranges and differential DGNSS corrections b bb Standard deviation of semi major axis of error ellipse meters C CC Standard deviation of semi minor axis of error ellipse meters ddd dd Orientation of semi major axis of error ellipse degrees e ee Standard deviation of latitude error meters f ff Standard deviation of longitude error meters g gg Standard deviation of altitude error meters hh lt CR gt lt LF gt checksum carriage return and line feed A Page 161 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 NMEA ZDA Sentence Rev No Date The NMEA ZDA sentence provides time and time zone information Structure and Example GPZDA hhmmss ss dd mm yyyy xx yy hh lt CR gt lt LF gt GPZDA 201530 00 04 07 2002 00 00 6E ZDA sentence defined ZDA Time amp Date hhmmss ss UTC time in hours minutes seconds of the GPS position dd mm yyyy Day Month Year UTC XX local zone hours 00 to 13 hrs yy local zone minutes 00 to 59 hh lt CR gt lt LF g
95. d Model Configure DGNSS calculations Select backups to Apex and or Ultra calculations Configure advanced calculations as for example Tides and PPP Ref Configure Position Outputs Configure other outputs as for example CSL Output Rud LN E KE 4 1 CONFIGURE GNSS RECEIVER Prior to configuring the GNSS Receiver check the following points concerning GNSS antenna installation e the antennas is installed with the best possible view of the open sky avoiding any masking or possibility of interference e cable runs must be short to avoid any effect on the L2 signal to Noise Ratio values or degradation of VERIPOS correction services performance Note Offsets are not required during setup of the GNSS receiver as the positions generated by Verify QC are referenced to the phase centre of the GNSS antennae The offset between the base of the antenna and the antenna phase centre differs for each antenna type For example the VERIPOS AD410 antenna has an offset of 45mm between the bottom of the antenna base and the L1 phase centre If using a different antenna this information should be obtained from the manufacturer 4 1 1 Configuring the GNSS Receiver Select Config GNSS Receiver and enter the information described in the following sections LIMEN 0I Name Ir Twpe Septentrio Asters Input IO Device None om Rev No A Page 15 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC
96. d Options If using a Topcon or Javad receiver please refer to the Topcon Prefilter section Section 3 4 of this manual Rev No A Page 118 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 9 WINDOWS In the Windows menu all open Verify QC views can displayed in Tile or Cascade format S test Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Bio Cascade Tile DEH r ibum a L JCERaz 1 CSL Output Station IDs 2 IO GNSS Rx v 310 Closest 10 Stations 4 GPS Source GNSS Rx 5 Latency GPS Source GNSS Rx EE ea e LR ai Tm 1 E LLA E i i D i m o o a 9 1 1 1 5 ER 1 j um N oO SE g LAC PA SBIN aI 5 eo s ER e en A 4 D i Ee E EJ amp 32 E T D 10 Closest 10 E Ip fqOeL vmFBp GLf lt 127 gt lt 127 G ACN i w p o 127 127 0 P 127 12 ug L 127 w 127 127 WYIb 127 127 VpAGFI 127 127 0jV Ea e 0809 153 110 01 49 8 u HO fRAHGAAoN O ik Q 127 12 777 i bO AhcAV WLCP L K Mx 127 p lt Wa um 27 gt CpA fuAg vw Ch AaAxK CzCBr a i Q U 127 K 127 ytt PODQ vdwbE TNIGOGA t 068 44 4 20 0 01 46 8 Latency Rev No Date amp p t IM ERR AES BE ue s as EUR i Ultra 36 Ei 1726 Saturday 00 01 55 GPS y megBSS ox SE P en amp
97. dongle upgrade or extend the dongle duration with the VERIPOS Helpdesk Upgrade Dongle Dc Status Cade YL40 1E6N SAWS 5900 0000 0000 07C3 1F02 Received Code Verify QC Dongle Status Code Pressing the Email button will start the user s default email software e g MS Outlook and open a new email message to be sent with the dongle status code in the e mail message body The VERIPOS Help Desk email address is automatically populated in the send to address of the email The Save button will create an ASCII file on the USB memory stick with the name status dsf This file can be sent by the user to the VERIPOS Helpdesk as an email attachment The Copy button will copy the dongle status code to the clip board so that it can be pasted into an e mail or fax VERIPOS help desk details helodesk veripos com Tel 44 0 1224 965900 Once the VERIPOS Helpdesk returns an upgrade code the code will be required to be saved in a file named upgrade dsf save the file to a USB memory stick and insert into the Verify QC PC Go to Help Dongle Upgrade press Load then browse to the location on the USB memory stick where the upgrade dsf file is saved The upgrade code will appear in the text box in the middle of the window A Page 121 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Rev No Date v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Press Upgrade and the code will be applied to th
98. e 2 Archiving current data will not delete it Verify QC will always keep the last 72 hourly log files Note 3 The automatic logging function is independent of the normal manual Verify QC data logging function configured under Logging ALF or RINEX Edit Continuous manual logging of Verify QC data is configured at Logging Edit and requires a manual start Manual log files are limited to a maximum size of 10MB Note 4 Manually logged data cannot be archived using the archive data function This data should be recovered using windows Explorer for saving A Page 63 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 6 6 GENERATE STATUS REPORT 6 7 Rev No Date Verify QC automatically generates a Status Report at midnight The report contains information about the availability of GNSS measurements GNSS cycle slips GNSS satellite health status the availability of RTCM messages and the availability of positions Should the user require an ad hoc report select Action Generate Status Report Select the location and filename of the report and click Save Save in d My Computer D EI e ES Oy My Recent Documents E Q My Bt zs 0S My Recent Documents Desktop 2 DVD RAM Drive D 4 DYD RAM Drive E Expansion Drive E s Removable Disk G S s data on ukgreefs02 0 LJ My Network Places TA Mu Docu
99. e Number numerical Sequential number incrementing by 1 for every extra string Maximum is 99999999 after which an automatic reset back to 1 takes place 4 Averaging Period numerical User selected period over which VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights are averaged in seconds Minimum is 60 maximum is 3600 Sample Count numerical Number of VERIPOS Apex or Ultra height samples that were included to derive the antenna height average Minimum is 50 of Averaging Period maximum is Averaging Period Latitude ddmm mmmm Location where height and tide information is valid degrees minutes and decimal minutes Rev No A Page 180 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Rev No Date Longitude dddmm mmmm Location where height and tide l information is valid degrees minutes and decimal minutes Mean Height hh hh metres Mean of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period Mean of Height SD hh hh metres Mean of the Height SD s associated with the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period This is an indication of the quality of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights 2 SD of Heights hh hh metres Standard deviation of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period This is an indication if the variation of the height due to vessel motion and position quality
100. e dongle and confirmation code will be returned by the software Please send this confirmation code to the VERIPOS Helpdesk to record a successful upgrade Failure to do so may result in dongles not accepting future updates When the codes have been entered the user can check if the upgrade has been applied as requested by selecting Dongle View The view will now contain the latest confirmation code Once the code has been entered the user can check if the upgrade has been applied by selecting Dongle View to bring up the view example below to show dongle status A 06 05 2015 Dongle 1182 has 881 days remaining Verify Ultra Extra Apex Glonass CSL Output Tides Heading Calc PPPRef LJ Axiom Demo OK Dongle View after upgrade Page 122 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 10 2 REVISION HISTORY Provides a summary of the revisions of Verify QC software versions 10 3 USER MANUAL Opens the Verify QC manual in PDF format provided Adobe Reader is installed on the PC 10 4 ABOUT This opens the following dialogue box containing the necessary support contact information together with the Verify QC Software Version and the version of the Algorithms The software version may be requested if the user requires support to assist in resolving any technical issues About Verify v1 12 Verify v1 12 Ultra 4 0 0 61
101. e generated in seconds Reference to the source processing centre of the Apex corrections within the Source Veripos data network i e 0 3 A transition between sources is managed within the Apex algorithms Clock The clock correction value relative to a proprietary reference in metres GLONASS The Apex correction information is listed by Glonass Slot number The headings in the table refer to Identifies the GLONASS satellite slot number Tb value in seconds divided by 900 Tb value is the index of a time interval within current day according to UT C SU 03 hours 00 min T when the scale factor is 1 current time and time that the correction values were generated in seconds Reference to the source processing centre of the Apex corrections within the Veripos data network i e 0 3 A transition between sources is managed within the Apex algorithms GLONASS orbit correction to the ECEF X coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres GLONASS orbit correction to the ECEF Z coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres X Rate of Change of the GLONASS orbit ECEF X coordinate correction Y Rate of Change of the GLONASS orbit ECEF Y coordinate correction Rev No A Page 153 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual b F AY GLONASS orbit correction to the ECEF Y coordinate of the broadcast eohemeris in metres X Y v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585
102. e it or open configuration files for editing Notes The Verify QC configuration file should be saved and a backup copy created and stored in a safe area If a configuration is running and New or Exit is selected a warning appears to save or cancel the existing configuration Creating a new configuration will close the existing configuration 1 1 7 manual review Verify I Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help en S 30 GLO G amp 7 Open Save Save Os Wessel amp uta SEart 1 1 12 manual review 1 12 z qciizcapt 1 12 3 Dataswibtch APEX 1 11 4 Dataswitch APEX 1 11 5 Dataswibch 1 11 6 INS 1 10 Exit File Menu Structure Auto Start Selecting Auto Start ensures the last saved configuration file will re open automatically when Verify QC is started If you do not require to use the last saved configuration when Verify QC starts you can close this configuration create a new configuration file or open a previously saved file A Page 13 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 3 5 2 Rev No Date Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 v eripos Existing Verify QC Configuration Files Verify QC 1 12B can also use configurations saved using earlier software versions although some configuration settings may have been added or adjusted for the functionality in the latest software version A warni
103. ecoded successfully Red indicates a failure shows the location of GPS green circle and GLONASS orange Constellation square satellites and their status white below elevation mask ellow unhealthy red disabled Rev No A Page 104 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No L1 L2 area GPS GLONASS Corrections Calculations Outputs area Output x veripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 indicates whether the pseudo range carrier and Doppler observations for satellites above the horizon have been received green Satellites below the elevation mask at the user end are shown in white indicates if GPS and GLONASS ephemeris data for satellites above the horizon have been received Satellites below the elevation mask at the user end are shown in white indicates whether GPS L1 Type 1 GPS L2 Type 15 and GLONASS L1 Type 31 corrections have been received green for the listed satellites at each reference station Missing corrections are shown in red and satellites just above the elevation mask at the reference station without corrections are shown in orange Satellites below the elevation mask at the reference station are shown in white The circle before the station name indicates whether a Type 3 with the station position has been received green yes red no The circle after the station name indicates whether the correction data is within the la
104. ef Station cancel PPP Ref RTCM Output dialogue 4 4 6 5 PPP Ref Station Ident Use this to set the RTCM Station ID of the PPP Ref corrections between 0 1023 4 4 6 6 PPP Ref Station Health Use this to set the RTCM Station Health of the PPP Ref corrections between 0 7 Page 40 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 4 6 7 4 4 6 8 4 4 6 9 Rev No Date A AB V MA 00585 As defined in RTCM v2 3 where 0 is healthy and 7 is unhealthy PPP Ref IO Device The O Device section supports RTCM output via Serial Port Server Socket Datagram and to File IO Details are in the Appendix PPP Ref RTCM Settings The PPP Ref calculation can output the RTCM messages required for a single frequency DGPS calculation i e Type 1 Type 2 and Type 3 messages PPP Ref also supports Type 16 messages to keep DGPS systems up to date on the source of the DGPS corrections Each of these messages can be enabled and their output intervals set The output interval of Type 1 and Type 2 messages is defined in seconds The output interval of Type 3 and Type 16 messages is set in minutes PPP Ref Terminators By default a carriage return CR is added to each RICM message The CR can be removed An additional option exists to add a Line Feed LF to each RTCM message Page 41 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Docu
105. eliability of each position in order to ensure the quality of the DGPS measurements Thus is recommends that the following processing steps be implemented e w test for outliers carried out for each position fix e F test for unit variance carried out for each position fix e When no more outliers are identified in any fix precision and reliability measures will be calculated o Precision a posteriori error ellipse o Reliability external reliability positional MDE using a power of test of 8096 Where accuracy and precision statistical parameters are generated these all represent a 9596 20 confidence region Appendix A of the UKOOA guidelines emphasises this by listing Suggested parameters to be specified by a system user for typical marine survey operations and states that In order to carry out rigorous QC the covariance matrix generated by the least squares computation should be used to generate test statistics and quality measures It recommends the following Test Statistics 1 w test used to detect outliers 2 F test used to verify the model which is being used to account for errors in the DGPS observations It recommends also the following Quality Measures 1 Error Ellipse an approximate graphical representation of the positional standard deviation in two dimensions 2 External Reliability the effect of the maximum MDE Marginally Detectable Error on the computed position These recommendations are particularly aimed at
106. er cosmetic changes A 06 05 2015 x Password Lock Config Page 116 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 8 2 COM PORT MAPPING All COM ports can be allocated descriptive names in this dialogue box The COM ports can be named according to their function after the various external devices have been interfaced for example COM1 GPS input This will aid the user in selecting the correct COM ports for input and outputs when configuring Verify QC Note when using this feature please ensure that the physical connections between the PC and the Receivers are not changed as this will create confusions in future configuration setups COM Port Mappings X COM1 Enabled gt gps COMS Enabled gt test COM Enabled gt test 1 OK Cancel Clear COM Port Mapping To edit the COM Port name double click on its name in the dialogue box If required COM ports can be disabled so that they cannot be selected for inputs or outputs in Verify QC This is particularly useful if some ports have already been reserved for other applications Set Mapping for COM1 x COM1 gt V Enabled om COM Port Editing Rev No A Page 117 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 8 3 ADVANCED OPTIONS The user can disable certain advanced
107. er dialogue box The RINEX Logger dialogue appears RIMEX Logger Version 2 10 Directory ARINE Browse Station YERI Run By Observation Interval Cer M Hau rly Measurement Contral Include GLONASS Cia L1 LZ v Enabled Enabled Iv Enabled wiPseudaranage Pseudarange wiPseudaranage Carrier Phase Carter Phase wiCarrier Phase Observer and Agency Number Type HIE IN 0 0000 0 0000 0 0000 Observer Mumber Agency Type GEODETIC Edit Comments Edit Edit Confirm Cancel RINEX Logging Rev No A Page 52 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 9 2 1 1 9 2 1 2 9 2 1 3 9 2 1 4 9 2 1 5 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 RINEX Version RINEX files that comply with the v2 10 standard can be logged RINEX Station This is for entering a four character Station identifier which will be used as the first 4 characters of the RINEX log files RINEX Run By The operators name may be entered RINEX Observation Interval The files are automatically split at midnight if an interval is not selected The drop down menu allows users to select RINEX Logging Interval of 1 15 or 30 seconds RINEX data at a one second interval will amount to approximately 100Mb per day A one second interval is recommended or even required for dynamic users 15 and
108. ghts hh hh metres Maximum of the VERIPOS Apex or Ultra heights during the Averaging Period E 15 Doodson hh hh metres Estimated tide less antenna height above Mean Sea Surface from the Doodson filter First available after 39 hours 16 MSS Tide hh hh metres Local tide based on the Mean Sea Surface derived from the Doodson filter First available after 39 hours 7 Geoid Tide hh hh metres Local tide relative to user selected Geoid see field 22 Available instantaneously after user configured hold off time 18 Antenna Height hh hh metres User entered height of the antenna above the waterline 9 Geoid Separation hh hh metres Local offset between the user selected Geoid and the WGS84 reference ellipsoid Draft hh hh metres The draft Calculated as the current Doodson value minus the Doodson value for the first record Vertical Bias hh hh metres The vertical bias detected between MSS Tide and Geoid Tide Calculated as Antenna Height minus Doodson plus Draft Geoid Model EGM96 EGMO08 or USER depending on user selection Fixed end delimiter le Co zz Go 1 20 21 2 2 A Page 184 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 SPRINT Tides txt General Description The SPHRINT Tides txt file contains the current UltraTide with the opposite sign compared to the MSS Tide con
109. hat fails the W Test SV PRN 01 99 HT if Altitude DU OK 13 Reference Station ID this lists the station ID s of stations being used in the calculation If a multi ref is being calculated this field can be padded with zeros to a fixed length if required by checking the box in the UKOOA 2 output setup window Page 176 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 GPLCT Sentence The GPLCT Sentence is particularly intended for use with the Ultra and Apex services as it includes a Float RTK GPS Quality Indicator GPLCT General Description This string is comma delimited but with fixed length fields A checksum is included for extra robustness The string is 87 characters including the character and the checksum GPLCT 2006365 170002 00 2859 836227 N 09304 171413 W 5 025 13 090 00 05 55 02 01 64 Identifier GPLCT fixed string that identifies the string yyyyjjj Identifies year and Julian day n Latitude ddmm mmmmmm Degrees and decimal minutes 6 digits on the decimal minutes Latitude Nor S Hemisphere C1 Longitude E or W Hemisphere 0 GPS Quality fix not valid indicator 1 Uncorrected GPS fix 2 DGPS fix 5 Ultra or Apex fix Antenna Height mmm mm Relative to ellipsoid meters Range 999 99 to 999 99 ddd dd Vessel course over ground degrees from North O Velocity SS SS Vessel speed over gro
110. hy one 17 14 218 Healthy ean 20 37 095 Healthy 3 TU 144 Healthy D 117 160 Healthy 04 340 Below Mask 31 16 031 Healthy Eley Az Status 6 25 277 Healthy 14 43 DAT Healthy 1 39 296 Healthy 14 347 Unhealthy 08 00 09 00 10 00 11 00 12 00 13 00 14 00 15 00 DOP View Keyboard space bar is used to animate the display illustrating satellite geometry changes over time Holding down space bar causes the vertical bar to move along the time axis until the space bar is pressed again All associated information on the view is updated Use left or right arrow keys to adjust the display at 6 minute intervals The time bar can be dragged with the mouse to any required location DOP View Key Line Colour Detail 1 0 0 Red PredctedHDOP 0 0 00000 O Satellites below the mask QU Satellites below the mask Unhealthy satellites unavailable for positioning Red y Disabled The animation can also be started by right clicking on the DOP view and selecting Start Animation Rev No A Page 70 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 By default the DOP view predicts the Next 6 Hours Time windows of the DOP view can be increased to the Next 12 Hours to display a Full Day Set the Display Mode using right click in the DOP view
111. iance matrix of the position fix computation un scaled The External Reliability is the maximum positional effect of an undetectable error in an observation This quantity is related to the Power of the test probability that the MDE would be detected and the Significance level used a he values recommended by UKOOA should be used see UKOOA Guidelines for The use of Differential GPS in offshore surveying Issue no 1 Sept 1994 i e a Significance level of test 1 and the Power of the test 8096 b If values other than those given above are used this must be explicitly stated by the contractor Fix Status Codes StatusCode Meaning O O O O o o Noor Bad Fix Altitude Aiding Weighted Height used in Fix Altitude Hold 2D Fix Computation Type Codes Te Code Meaning 0 SmgeFeqemy S 2 GLONASSAwmened OOO 3 Ote Correction Type Codes TypeCode Meming OOOO O OO D NoCorrectons S EE ERES single Frequency pseudo range diff corrections 2 Dual Frequency pseudo range diff corrections i as Satellite Orbit Corrections No of ref stations gives the number of reference stations in use for this fix not the number of stations available This field must be set to 0 if the fix is not differential Page 171 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 VERIPOS UKOOA Sentence Example 23
112. ight E36 137 49 m Geoid Sep EGM96 PO 73 m Position View Position Table When the Tides function dongle dependent is enabled the Position Table for Apex or Ultra will include three extra rows Additionally the user will enter height of the antenna above the waterline and the calculated MSS Tide and Geoid Tide values which are displayed Ultra 10 00 38 LIT C Latitude WiGS84 AY 08 42 650846 M Longitude iWGS84 OZ 17 Q7 044B7 WW Height WGS84 188 20 m Reduced Height EGM96 137 48 m Ant Height 0 00 m Geoid Sep EGM96 50 72 m MSS Tide MSS 0 03 m Geoid Tide EGM96 137 48 m Ultra GPS GLO Advanced Position View Position Table General Statistic Table The General Statistics Table provides the main statistical parameters associated with the calculated position Page 88 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Confidence gag Power ZI F Test Passed Degrees af Freedom EN Unit Variance 0 209 HMG o 005 Semi Majar Q 036 Semi Min r 0 031 Angle 160 900 POOP 1 479 HDCP 0 815 VDOP T235 SU UO m s C MG 169 5 311 G14 G17 G19 G20 G26 O32 ROJ ROS Roe R13 R14 R20 R21 R22 Position View General Statistics Table This table displays the following information reliability of the position indicating that 9996 of the positions are contained Confidence ere within the error ellipse alse indicat
113. ight clicking in the IO view allows the user to change the data source All defined inputs to or outputs from Verify QC can be monitored Page 67 Document title Document No v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Ia gau E a GPS RY View IO Options Pause and Fixed Font options are available to aid data interpretation 7 2 GNSS The GNSS menu section contains views relating to the GNSS receiver and satellites 7 2 1 SNR DG E e o o 1o OM Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help Iveco SNR Differential DOF Calculation Almanac CC Health Logging d Missing Sv Constellation Plot GPS Ephemeris GPS CCF GPS Measurements Glonass Ephemeris Glonass CCF Glonass Measurements View GNSS Menu SNR displays the Signal to Noise Ratios measured in dbHz for each GPS GLONASS satellite in view The following characteristics are displayed by the various GPS receiver types Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 A stronger signal is displayed when the signal indicator moves to the right side of the window The width of the signal indicator summarises the recent variation in signal strength A large hatched area indicates unstable tracking When the signal strength becomes critical the colour of the signal indicator changes to yellow and then red Parameters are set in the system Satellites at higher elevations have higher signa
114. ils have a fixed 5m scale If the data exceeds the 5m range the 5 will be shown in bold red with an exclamation mark behind it Thumbnails k Hide Labels 0 5m Hide Cyde Slip Indicators im MEE 02 k Ba 04 05 E cos 20m 11 12 b 13 k 17 k 20 I 23 b 25 F 30 k ol CCF View Options Rev No A Page 143 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No D 4 Rev No Date GPS MEASUREMENTS Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 v eripos This view displays information about the GPS measurements received and decoded by Verify QC The top row is showing the GPS week number the day and GPS time A 06 05 2015 SEAT E 1524 15 25 30 GPS ini x PRN Eev Azi rrea sk Range fange sP Phase Popper 22271641 45 22271641 16 22271642 50 2448 580 90 24487581 36 24487586 93 20772585 39 20772585 79 20772587 63 27909525 93 22909525 40 22909530 71 22122502 53 221272501 78 22122506 49 21105736 48 21105736 40 21105739 61 23812035 67 23812035 11 23812039 15 23416269 52 23416268 88 23416270 10 24106261 37 24106260 73 24106265 10 20921716 04 20971715 23 20971719 62 24767712 23 24767712 39 24767716 93 GPS Measurements View 117038290 0 36 117038291 276 91198668 152 128683089 243 128683089 474 100272548 599 109160708 283 109160709 542 85060312 813 120390408 896 120390410 136 923810720 615 116254565 797 116254566 0
115. in 1994 These guidelines set out what is generally regarded as good practise in the offshore industry They are not mandatory and operators are free to adopt different guidelines or standards These guidelines are now dated in certain areas due to advancements in positioning technology and algorithms However they contain useful suggestions for quality monitoring as indicated below see 1 o assist DGPS operators and client representatives to monitor the quality of the DGPS system in real time the following information should be continuously available e Pseudo range residuals of all SV s and observation weight values used Unit variance Number of satellites in view and number used in solution Redundancy of least squares solution DOP values HDOP PDOP and VDOP Latency of differential correction data Position comparisons derived from different reference stations Derived antenna height with respect to known height Monitor station information especially position error measured at the monitor station All data should be time tagged e Maximum external reliability figure and observation carrying it The UKOOA guidelines present a set of test statistics and quality measures recommended for use with DGPS In its final recommendations see 1 it states A Page 155 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 It is essential to assess the precision and r
116. ing down the distance between solutions and transitioning from the previous solution to the active solution in smaller increments over time the solution position doesn t immediately jump When the Fallback Smoothing option is unchecked the transition will not be smoothed therefore will immediately switch between the previous and active solutions as soon as they become active and a position jump will be observed between calculations The Fallback Smoothing option is primarily for use with the VERIPOS AXIOM application where Fallback Smoothing should be disabled A Page 28 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 4 1 3 4 4 1 4 4 4 2 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 Geoid Model Users can select the EGM96 EGM08 Geoid Spheroid Separation Model or an externally derived separation value by selecting the User radio button By default the system uses EGM96 This geoid model is also used within the Geoid Tides functionality A User defined separation value should be maintained as the user moves around the area Note The User option should only be used when the exact Geoid ellipsoid separation from an alternative source or model is known Elevation Mask The user elevation mask sets the minimum elevation at which a satellite will be used in the position calculations By default the elevation mask is set to 10 The VERIPOS reference stations are all co
117. ion as this will allow the files to be read using most ASCII file viewers A new logging file is created at midnight if the box Split at Midnight is ticked The date is then included automatically in the file name using the convention Write Filename_YYMMDD txt File IO Options Rev No A Page 135 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 D ADVANCED VIEWS v eripos This appendix outlines the Advanced Views that can be enabled under 7ools Advanced Options Advanced Options X Mies v ali GNSS Options v GLONASS Iv PPP Ref Calculation Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 jw Tides vw RIMEX Logging vw CSL Output v Almanac vw GPS Ephemeris I GPS CCF vw GPS Measurements wr Always show op start up EI Glonass CCF EI Glonass Measurements Differential vw Station Data Iw Apex Corrections ama Advanced Options dialogue Page 136 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 D 1 ALMANAC In Verify QC1 12B the Satellite constellation convention is adopted as below GPS G where represents the SV PRN GLONASS R where represents the SV slot number In future when available on the GNSS receiver Galileo SV s will show EZZ and Compass SV s will show CZ View GNSS Almanac displays the curren
118. ion of the overall fit of the observations to the statistical model The F F Test Test does not detect the source of any errors it will give only an indication as to the pass or failure of the test D number of additional observations compared to the unknown quantities that eg Of are being solved for When the number of observations equals the number of unknowns there is no redundant information in the position calculation the ratio between the actual and modelled errors The expected value of unit Unit Var variance is 1 Occasional small values are of no concern however large values can indicate a bias in the data Spikes in the unit variance indicate outliers and erroneous pseudo range measurements Root Mean Square is a statistical measure of the scatter of computed RMS i i e gi See positions around a Best Fit position solution This is shown in meters Semi Major axis of the error ellipse produced by the calculation Semi Minor axis of the error ellipse produced by the calculation direction of the Semi major axis from the centre of the error ellipse Dilution of Precision is a measure of the strength of the satellite geometry at the receiver The DOP value can be used as a multiplier to the standard deviation of the GPS measurements to derive an estimated standard deviation of the position Horizontal DOP and Vertical DOP horizontal position VDOP Vertical DOP is an indicator of the strength of the calculation in the height co
119. isplay Current DOP Warnings CSL RAW OUTPUT Output Ephemeris lonospherics UTC These options force the instant output of Ephemeris lonospheric and UTC CSL Raw records on the configured CSL Raw Output IO device A Page 61 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 6 4 2 Reset ID Mapping The CSL Output Format requires the RTCM Station IDs to be in a 2 digit format 00 to 99 The RTOM Format allows station IDs from 0000 to 1024 As a result Verify QC maps the stations received within Verify QC to the 2 digit format This is done by assigning the first received reference station to 00 the second received reference station to 01 and so on until all received stations have been mapped to a 2 digit code Selecting the menu item Reset ID Mapping allows the ID number scheme 0 99 to be reset Note These functions apply where the dongle is enabled for CSL output and Verify QC is providing an output to a Concept Systems Limited navigation system These actions are available under Action CSL Raw Output File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help Ge De e Receiver d ZC D E ai Man Tides d MSS Calcula DOP warnings F CSL Raw Output Output Ephemeris Archive Data Output Ionaspherics Generate Status Report Output UTC Import veriChart File Reset ID Mapping Synchronise PC Clock Action CSL Raw Output Rev No A Page 62 Date
120. istics Scatter Delta North 23 10 23 20 23 30 23 40 Delta North 23 00 23 01 23 02 Time Series View Zoom Zoom in as many times as required Icon functions le leet Pauses the live update view to review a previous period Refresh the screen GPS and GLONASS v C Standard Wi Std Plus cC AL cC Trial Point fe Play option puts the user into real time mode and jumps to current time Back button for stepping between previous zoomed areas Forward button for stepping between successive zoomed areas The right mouse button in the window of both the time series and scatter plot accesses menu to change the Time Scale Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 Time Scale 20 Minutes Reference Position 40 Minutes w 1 Hour PY e Hours Size Eo content 4 Hours Time Series View Options Page 102 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Change the Y scale of the vertical axis by moving the mouse pointer to the vertical axis and double clicking Select Automatic or customise Time Series View Y Scale The Time Series view can be copied to the PC s clipboard as a bitmap image for pasting into MS Paint or MS Word Rev No A Page 103 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Document No Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585
121. ith the same tp value coordinates of the n satellite in PZ 90 coordinate system at the instant tp velocity vector components of the n satellite in PZ 90 coordinate system at 7005 7 instant t oX Oy 07 acceleration components of the n satellite in PZ 90 coordinate system at 7 0 instant t Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 Page 146 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Document No Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 age of the immediate information The time interval elapsed since the instant of its calculation uploading until the instant tp for ni satellite This generated on board the satellite GLONASS time scale correction to UTC SU time relative deviation of predicted carrier frequency value of ni satellite from nominal value at the instant tp health flag The equipment analyzes only one MSB of this word 1 indicates malfunction of given satellite The equipment does not consider the second or third bits of this word flag indicates time interval between two adjacent values of tp minutes in both current and previous frames flag indicates oddness 1 or evenness 0 of the value of tp for intervals of 30 or 60 minutes flag indicates number of satellites with almanac transmission within given frame 1 indicates five satellites O corresponds to four flag indicating ephemeris parameters are present 1 indicates updated ephemeris or frequency time parameters have been
122. itle Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Elevation Mask 7 Backup One Backup Two Nc Backup Backup Three Nc Eackup Backup Four Nc Backup PFF Mode GPS Only C GPS and GLONASS o Apex dialogue The logic of the backup process is as follows 1 An Apex solution will be output if the calculation is in Apex mode and has a minimum of 5 satellites reported in the Calculation Status view 2 Alternatively the Backup One solution will be output provided its mode is Differential or Reduced Differential 3 Alternatively the Backup Two solution or the Backup Three solution or the Backup Four solution will be output provided its mode is Differential or Reduced Differential 4 Alternatively an uncorrected solution will be output N B Steps 2 3 amp 4 are omitted from the process if no backup solutions have been selected A smoothing process is used during switches between the different stages of the backup process allowing Verify QC to seamlessly fall back without steps or interrupting in the Apex position output The smoothing process removes the initial difference between the previous and current calculation stage over a 100sec time period Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 Page 36 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 4 4 5 4 4 5 1 4 4 5 2 Rev No Date v eripos Verify QC v1 12B U
123. ive of the calendar to allow for overlap and data recovery Start Click on the red record button in the tool bar to start logging Alternatively Logging ALF Start starts data logging and confirms the logging control settings File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help ee BER amp amp Logging Start Button A name for the logging session and useful information can be added This will show when selecting a log for replay VERIPOS recommend adding information on the hardware and software configuration and operating environment This aids analysis of the replay and provides an opportunity to describe any specific areas for review Logging Parameters x Path Cer Logged RAW Data Browse Max Size 1400 Name rest Log Notes Brown GPS Ae 29 46 54 29293 N 95 38 29 76129 W 15 301m oe Logging Parameters Information you enter is stored in the Logging Schedule ars file in the same directory as the Verify QC logging files Name field is used as the filename A Page 47 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Yerify Logged Raw Data File Edit View Favorites Tools Help sack E KS yo Search lie Folders Address C erify Logged Raw Data Falders Mame Size Type Date Modified E Desktop p 0z201_193051 alf 34 K6 ALF File 2 1 2006 1 31 PM E My Documents E Te
124. l strengths and are less prone to noise All signals are normal in the figure below Page 68 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 GPS Source GNSS Rx SMF Plot E Cg JE b T FJ ui mimo mi o a SIS Sla EES m kJ e e mn Ao fa fo Bad wo wo eo wo DN J 3 H a a E JI m g ERE ees ek mm _ T WG 4 pn S z INE H u d d E REM D s 09 09 Deia nos nos os s 0897 3 CR GC Gi B H b EE nm SNR Measurements View GPS satellites are identified by their PRN number and are preceded by a G GLONASS satellites by their slot number and are preceded by a R The slot number for GLONASS refers to the transmit frequency slot for each satellite GPS uses a pseudo random code number PRN to identify satellites Clicking SV AZ EL L1 or L2 changes the vertical order in which the window displays the data Right clicking will do the same using a menu This allows selection of the GPS Source Feature only available when a second GNSS receiver input is configured for the Heading Calculation Sort By EB t GPS Source GPS Source d v Primary GPS Rx w Display GLONASS Secondary Heading Rx S seeto contet 1 Size to Content Size to Content SNR View Options SNR View SV Space Vehi
125. l to Noise Ratio is a measure of the power of a received satellites carrier signal at a GPS receiver Signal strength is generally measured in dBHz but there are differences between the various GPS receiver types A low SNR is less than 30 dBHz whilst good SNR exceeds 40 dBHz Range Standard Deviation is a statistical parameter of the range data The Range SD lower the standard deviation the higher the accuracy of the ranges SD is measured in meters Phase This is the Range divided by the wavelength measured in metres Wavelengths L1 19cm L2 24cm Doppler effect is the change of signal frequency as the transmitting source moves closer or further away from the receiver The reading in this table Doppler gives the difference between the transmitted carrier frequency at the satellite and the frequency received at the GPS receiver The Doppler measurement is used for the calculation of the user velocity The GPS data for a second GNSS receiver can be displayed in the view when Verify QC is configured to receive GPS data from a second GNSS receiver i e when the Heading Calculation is configured This data can be selected via a right click on the view and setting the GPS Measurement Source accordingly Heading Calculation GPS Rx Size to Content GPS Measurements View Options Rev No A Page 145 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585
126. lPragramstSkartup Folders Mame Size Type Date Modified E 9 WP C a d Verb ZKB Shortcut 1 26 2006 12 02 PM C3 Admin E 3 Documents and Settings C3 Administrator C3 Administrator LIK4 E Al Users 3 Desktop a Favorites 3 Shared Documents E 53 Start Menu H ei Pragrams m Accessories m Administrative Tools f AT amp T Global Network Cli m Autodesk ei Business Explorer m DK2 Nebwark Server ei Games ei Iomega ei Microsoft Office m Mozilla Firefox e Recover My Files Start Menu Windows 7 Create a shortcut to Verify QC on the desktop Run as administrator Troubleshoot compatibility Open file location F Zip HP Show Versions HP User Manuals Pin to Taskbar Intel Pin to Start Menu Maintenance Microsoft Silverli Morton Ghost Send to d Compressed zipped folder PC Help amp Tools ul Weieng H Ge Cut Desktop create shortcut PDF Complete Productivity and EES Recovery Manag Delete Restore previous versions Documents Fax recipient Mail recipient DVD RW Drive F EUR Allan s HDD G Default Progra Removable Disk H ALLANS 466 E Rename Uninstall Help and Support d Documentation AN Dongle Drivers Back Search programs and files Verify QC Shortcut Rev No A Page 7 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Click Start All Program
127. lay measured at the reference station GLONASS Specific Differential Data The dedicated satellite number assigned to the satellites orbital path th index of a time interval within current day according to UTC SU 03 hours 00 min Ch Indicates whether the GLONASS ephemeris data has changed without a ange change in the tp value Common Differential Data Elev elevation angle measured in degrees of the satellite above the horizon at the reference station location The horizontal angle measured in degrees from the north direction to the direction of the satellite relative to the reference station location The delay in meters caused by the lonosphere to the GPS GLONASS signal lono from a particular satellite This ionospheric delay value is derived from the Klobuchar model in the Almanac The delay in meters caused by the troposphere to the GPS GLONASS signal Tropo from the satellite at the reference station This tropospheric delay value is derived using the Hopfield model defined within the software scale factor as a code equal to 0 or 1 0 scale factor for pseudo range correction better than 0 02 meter and for SF range rate correction 0 002 meter second 1 scale factor for pseudo range correction better than 0 32 meter and for range rate correction 0 032 meter second Rev No A Page 150 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00
128. llows the user to change parameters mI dl MelefEIelelv ME v rial Point Hide Tracks Hide Table EE Ultra Position Mode Apex Scale GPS and GLONASS Re Centre Standard Copy Std Plus ID A Size bo Content Error Ellipses View Reference Position The Reference Position can be set to any of the position calculations or the Trial Point Config Calculation Settings if the system is stationary The selected solution is shown in the index in bold print Hide Tracks allows the user to remove the track plots for all the calculations in the Error Ellipse display Hide Table allows the user to hide the key completely Reference Position F Hide Tracks Hide Table Position Mode Absalute Scale k yw Relative Re Centre Copy Size to Content Error Ellipses View Position Mode The Position Mode can be set to Relative or Absolute e Relative Displays the position calculations relative to the Reference Position This can be fixed i e Trial Point or moving i e a Position Calculation The chosen Reference Position remains in the centre of the screen with the other positions shown relative to it e Absolute Displays all Position Calculations in their actual positions Ina moving environment none of the positions will be centred and will all move around the screen For a known reference position the differences are shown for each position Page 98 06 05 2015 Verify
129. lude the DGPS corrections for the satellites above the elevation mask set in the PPP Ref calculation configuration dialogue PPP Ref Calculation B x 1584 Thursday 23 59 33 GPS 1584 Thursday 23 53 33 GPS Ee ER er unc Tu sE eRe Rate fuoRE fione Latitude WG584 57 08 42 66077 N Longitude Wiss OOZ 17 Q7 05447 w Height WG584 187 25 m Reduced Height EGM96 136 54 m Geoid Sep EGMS36 50 72 m Latency Unit Variance semi major PDOP CO o OO CO CO OO CH PPP Ref View Position Status and Correction Data Table expanded view PPP Ref Differential Data Pseudo Random Noise code A unique identification number for each GPS satellite E g PRN 13 refers to the satellite that transmits the 13 weekly portion of the P code Elevation The elevation angle measured in degrees that the satellite resides above the horizon at the reference station location Azimuth This is a horizontal angle measured in degrees from the north direction to the direction of the satellite This is relative to the reference station location The delay in meters caused by the lonosphere to the GPS signal from the particular satellite An ionospheric delay value derived from the Klobuchar model in the Almanac The delay in meters caused by the troposphere to the GPS signal from that satellite at the reference station Value is derived using the Hopfield model Rev No A Page 95 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual
130. ment title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 2 1 8 4 2 2 Rev No Date unavailable in the dialogue Verify QC will then automatically select the closest 3 stations based on their coordinates in the RTCM Type 3 messages and label them with identifiers N1 N2 and N3 These stations will appear in the Config Calculation New GNSS Calc dialogues with name N1 RTCM Input Name ID etc as for example in the dialogue below Made Veripos Standard d DETIL Jas Selected Below Stations N1 MF Receiver 777 JN MF Receiver 701 CLINS MF Receiver 705 Closest Non VERIPOS Station Names Note stations that do not broadcast HTCM Type 3 message will not be detected by the automatic Use Closest 3 process and therefore cannot be used in Verify QC position calculations IO Device The O Device section supports RTCM inputs via Serial Port Client Socket and Datagram oerial Port Client Socket and Datagram connection details are detailed in the Appendix Guideline settings for RTCM data e Baud Rate 9600 e Data Bits 8 e Parity None e Stop Bits 1 Users should consult the demodulator manual to confirm the settings Editing Existing RTCM Inputs The Config RTCM menu lists all configured RTCM inputs Input can be selected separately for editing deletion or change of order as required A Page 25 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC
131. ment title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 5 POSITION OUTPUT There are no software limitations in the Verify QC to the number of outputs that can be configured 4 5 1 New Click Config Position Output New CM erily File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help D asra psao CA QF HITCH Input Calculation k Position Output CSL Output New Output This will open the following dialogue Position Output Mame jute ra Position to Mav Screen EE S Message Message MMEA 7 Iw GG4 Options Ce Default C Alstom ppp C pp Options Default C Old Output IO Device None v Split at Midnight Filename Browse cm File Output Enable Output Name Rev No A Page 42 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 5 1 1 Position Name 4 5 1 2 4 5 1 3 Rev No Date A Name can be given to the output Use a name that indicates which calculation is being output and the external system connected Position Select the Position calculation to be used The pull down menu displays the list of all user configured calculations Apex and Ultra will be included where these are enabled on the dongle Position Message Select the Message type to output from e NMEA WesternGeco TRINAV WesternGeco TRINAV V3 VERIPOS UKOOA Output VERIPO
132. ments My Computer LY Mom File name v Places Save as type Verify Status Report csv D Cancel Generate Status Report IMPORT VERICHART FILE Verify QC contains a station list for the global VERIPOS network valid on the date of software release VERIPOS recommend an update is downloaded on a regular basis Information is contained in Verichart Station Configuration File format The updated station list is on the VERIPOS support website http help veripos com Use Action Import Verichart File to import a file into Verify QC A Page 64 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 6 8 Rev No Date Select Verichart File 34 xl Look in C3 Vesty v1 08 D EI ex E3 E VeriposStations 02Apr08 txt E VeriposStations_25May07 txt Hume lt i Files of type Verichart DGPS File VeriposStations Cancel Import Verichart File When the file is loaded updated global station information is used to display the coverage on the Station Map SYNCHRONISE PC CLOCK Use Synchronise PC Clock facility to adjust the PC time to Verify QC system time GPS time The Synchronise PC Clock option will not work in Windows 7 unless the User Account Control option is set to Never Notify To Set the UAC follow the steps below Open Control Panel User Accounts and select the option for Change User Acc
133. ments 00 NO Sa Message DepencentByie M s Message DepencentByie 1 us Deen e 3 www umma M a Sema Lack o Jas mass atuse Hemisphere un 9 Ines Homme Wo Inn mn Howmerensme M 4 Iren vus E N E S iun XIS 95 68 Error Ellipse Semi minor Axis O1 amp 95 68 Error Ellipse Max Direction 95 68 Latitude s d Precision Value didi BEEN BEEN een m LOP with External Reliability See comment 11 Number of SV s used at the Mobile NN N vn o O Satellite PRN Numbers 12 n Rev No A Page 175 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual ane 68 Height s d Precision a 66 68 7a Lom Semen 0 v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 Approximately 2 N x V Total Number of SV s used in Solution I2 NN for multi reference solution Ine ores of the Reference Station I3 NDA Optional Additional Data Before I0 or H n Variable Checksum Checksum Carriage Return Line Feed Comments 1 Age of Data the time of the first character of the data string being output minus the time of position 2 Datum Indicator this indicates which Datum is being used by the calculation W WGS 84 Z Other Datum Datum Not Known 3 Height height ranges from 999 9 to 9999 9 A 4 Height Ref Indicator this shows which vertical datum is being used to calculate
134. mponent Speed over the Ground Course Made Good Rev No A Page 89 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Rev No Date The bottom row of the General Statistic Table lists the PRN number G of the GPS satellites used in the calculation Slot numbers R of the GLONASS satellites is displayed Notes Table The Notes Table lists statistical parameters PRM X Station Resid ResidsD mde wStat wiest East Morth Up Passed 0 004 Fassed 0 018 Fassed 0 011 Fassed 0 013 Fassed 0 010 Fassed 0 015 Passed 0 001 Fassed 0 007 Passed 0 004 Passed 0 002 Passed 0 004 Fassed 0 000 Fassed 0 007 Passed 0 006 Fassed 0 005 Fassed 0 005 Position View Notes table This table displays the following information displays general information such as a reference station being out of range otes p missing data or data being rejected a unique identification PRN or slot number for each GPS and GLONASS satellite respectively S mde R Station Marginally Detectable Error is the smallest error identified by the w test with a probability of 80 w test is used to prove the null hypotheses by testing against a series of alternative hypothesis These are formulated to describe any possible error pattern or combination of error patterns If the error turns out to be utesi statistically significant for any of the alternative hypothe
135. nce stations VERIPOS GLONASS messages contain correction data for the L1 GLONASS ranges at the reference station The green circle next to the reference station name indicates the receipt of the reference station location information This circle is red if this information has not yet been received viewed at start up Verify QC will not use differential corrections from a reference station until its location is known The station locations are saved to file so that Verify QC does not wait to reacquire them every time the configuration is restarted The left hand edge of the bar shows how old the current correction was when first received by Verify QC Since the messages are time stamped when generated by the reference station Verify QC is able to determine their age The right hand side of the bar advances across the display until a new correction is received Values next to the bar show the current age latency of the current correction message A threshold of 120 sec applies for Type 1 and Type 31 messages When this threshold is exceeded data is rejected and the calculation mode changes to uncorrected as shown in the Calculation Status view A threshold of 360 seconds applies to the Ultra and Apex correction messages and when this is exceeded the calculation mode Ultra and Apex become uncorrected The latency bar moves from left to right as the latency increases A traffic light colour scheme applies to the latency bars L
136. networked computer on the LAN can receive them or in the address mode where the data packets have headers specifying the addressees of the intended recipient There is no guarantee with this protocol that the messages will arrive in the order they were sent Output IO Device Fort 9000 Is Broadcast Send Only IP Address localhost Max Size 517 E Datagram Options As with Server and Clients Sockets the user is required to enter a Port number The Datagram communication type can be used to send or receive data To broadcast data tick the Is Broadcast box To receive data leave this box unchecked The P Address configuration defaults to local host with a Max Size of 512 limiting the packet size to 512kb These two parameters are user selectable The Send Only tick box when selected allows the Datagram IO component to send data to an existing Datagram listener on the same PC without binding itself to a port to listen to incoming messages This will allow other software on the same computer to connect to the port Rev No A Page 134 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 C 5 FILE IO The File IO device type allows the logging of output data to file Users can browse to the destination directory and enter the name and extension of the logging file under Write Filename It is advisable to use the txt file extens
137. nfig Change Log Title Poor SNR Just experienced a period of poor SHR due to the crane masking the GPS antenna Config Change Log Add Notes Dialogue 7 6 3 RINEX View Logging RINEX opens the RINEX logging status view and displays the Measurements Header and Stats chosen from the option menu at the top of the view Rev No A Page 113 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 1 1 12 manual review Verify EIE Tools File Config Logging Action D GR 9 a o ONS Window Help o ei Te DifFerential Calculation QC Logging Event Log Config Change Log RIMEX x RINEX GPS Observation Data Measurements Header 3 0000000 20765013 24284567 22635163 24921410 24366260 21616240 20097518 23462585 SERE ge SET 24021759 20994656 Measurements 14 1 amp 11 14 20765009 531 24204664 217 22635162 920 24921409 217 24366257 Dn 21616239 736 20097518 254 234625809 977 i al ey OD 24021755 622 20994654 276 Stats v eripos 0 11G ulG a4Gl11l1GlzGcl4Gl 75205023G2831032 591 424 324 SEI 683 575 581 Lag 658 SEL 088 05029255 39441630 325687170 102048966 99657659 88514851 52296029 325075431 103140270 38355144 85970423 410 236 191 630 555 763 Dt 242 766 281 629 mm A ma A oa A a A a AA an A ma AA
138. nfigured to provide corrections above a 7 elevation mask Changing the elevation mask in Verify QC can affect which reference stations are used for corrections as the following logic is applied User elevation mask 2 109 correction elevation mask 109 User elevation mask lt 10 and 2 5 correction elevation mask user elevation mask User elevation mask 5 correction elevation mask 59 A higher mask setting may be useful where satellites at slightly higher elevations are suffering poor signal to noise ratios or intermittent masking Note setting the elevation mask does not change the GNSS receiver configuration Verify QC manages the elevation mask setting of the GNSS receiver which is automatically set to 0 Note the VERIPOS Apex and Ultra calculations use a fixed elevation mask of 7 New DGNSS Calc Click Config Calculation DGNSS Calculation New DGNSS Calc to configure a new calculation A Page 29 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Als Name Backup 1 Mode Veripos Standard d selection Jas Selected Below stations Houston 501 New Orleans 502 Trinidad 504 5t Johns 505 DGNSS Calculation dialogue 4 4 2 1 DGNSS Calc Name Allocate a name to the calculations in the Name box Use a descriptive name to make it easy to identify the individual calculations when viewed in the
139. ng message will appear to advise you are using an earlier software configuration When opening existing configuration files from the File Menu the version in which the configuration was saved in is shown in brackets 1 12 manual review Verify I Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help Open Save Save AS Wessel B amp uta SEart 1 1 12 manual review 2 qcllzcapt 3 Dataswikch APEX d Dataswitch APEXE 5 Dakaswitch 6 INS IC eg e Note Users are recommended to check over all settings in their configuration file after upgrading to a later Verify QC software version CONFIGURATION The configuration menu is used to set up all parameters within Verify QC Time and care must be taken to ensure all parameters are entered or selected correctly during the configuration process Failure to do so may affect the performance of Verify QC operation A 06 05 2015 CM Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help i355 Receiver RTM Input Demodulator Input Calculation Position Gutput CSL Output Page 14 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Config Menu Structure The configuration menu is structured so that the software can be configured in a logical order The primary steps are Configure GNSS receiver input Configure RTCM inputs Configure Demodulator Input if applicable oet elevation mask and Geoi
140. ng one of the physical ports or DIGI ports The data is then input into the VERIPOS VIO software part of the Verify QC suite of programs The VIO software can be configured with Server Sockets such that data is broadcast over the network including the local host computer making the data available to more than one user Input IO Device cient Socket IP Address P alhast Port od Client Socket Options The Client Socket dialogue allows users to enter the P Address of the computer serving out the data and the Port on which the TCP IP data is present If the data is coming from the same computer as Verify QC the IP address should be left as localhost Ports range is between 0 65535 A Page 133 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 C 3 SERVER SOCKET Position output data can be sent to other applications on the network using Server Sockets with the TCP IP protocol Output Server Socket Port 8000 D as Group Server Socket Options The Server Socket dialogue allows users to enter the Port on which the TCP IP data will be present C 4 DATAGRAM The Datagram connection type in Verify QC uses the User Datagram Protocol UDP UDP is an alternative to TCP It does not manage a connection for purposes of flow control Instead packets of data are issued to the intranet internet in either broadcast mode where any
141. ng such that the constellation plot becomes fixed to the vessel and relative to the Vessel Direction This allows vessel specific masking areas to be identified by the user Calculated heading is less accurate when the vessel has a very low velocity The correction for vessel heading takes place only when the vessel velocity exceeds 3km hr Rev No A Page 74 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Switching the view to Correct for Heading may reduce the number of points on the constellation plot The plot will display missing satellite data for the last 24 hours Clear the buffer by right clicking on the view and select this option 7 2 6 GPS Ephemeris This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description 7 2 7 GPS CCF This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description 7 2 8 GPS Measurements This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description 7 2 9 GLONASS Ephemeris This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description 7 2 10 GLONASS CCF This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description 7 2 11 GLONASS Measurements This is an Advanced View See appendices for a detailed description Rev No A Page 75 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 1 3 7 3 1 Rev No Date v eripos Ve
142. nt for PRN 4 Standard E o 7 Rev No A Page 110 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Event Log View The Time column displays date and time information The Mode column indicates if the event is for the users information or if it constitutes a warning Warnings are displayed when critical data inputs time out The Event column provides a description of the event The Source column gives an indication of which process detected the event The event log can be sorted by any of the columns Clicking on the column name changes the sort order for each column Alternatively the sorting parameters can be set by right clicking on the view menu and selecting options under Sort by Show d Sort By Display Mode Event Descending Source Descending Event Log View Sort By Options Individual columns can be hidden by right clicking on the view and selecting options under Show The Display Mode of the event log can be changed The live mode can be paused or set to display a past event log file Display Mode Event Log View Display Mode Options The user can view the events of previous days by right clicking on the view menu and selecting Display Mode File The full list of event files associated with the current configuration are shown and are available for selection
143. ntered in the Calc Settings dialogue Note Enabling height aiding allows the Standard GLONASS Only and Standard calculations to work with as little as 3 GNSS satellites This can be beneficial in environments with significant masking or in geographic areas of higher ionospheric disturbance where scintillation can effectively reduce the amount of satellites in view or when working in areas that are subject to masking of satellites Ultra This menu option is available only with an Ultra enabled dongle VERIPOS Ultra service is based on the Precise Point Positioning PPP technique Using this technique the GNSS orbit and clock errors in the GNSS systems are corrected and remaining system errors are estimated or mitigated to a high degree of accuracy giving a position solution with a decimetre level accuracy The Ultra calculation is automatically made available when the dongle is enabled for Ultra The Ultra calculation is possible where the conditions exist as follows 1 The Verify QC dongle is enabled for Ultra 2 GPS receiver has dual channels and is receiving both frequencies 3 The VERIPOS demodulator is enabled for the Ultra Service 4 The Ultra station ID is enabled on the demodulator output port 5 The Veripos check box is ticked in the Station Data dialog box The Ultra GPS and GLONASS Ultra calculation requires the following additions Page 33 v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document
144. of the satellite above the horizon at the user s location Azi Azimuth is the horizontal angle measured in degrees from the north direction zi reer to the direction of the satellite relative to the user s location Frequency refers to C A range measurement derived from the Coarse Acquisition Code on the L1 frequency L1 range measurement derived from the carrier at the L1 frequency L2 range measurement derived from the carrier at the L2 frequency oignal to Noise Ratio is a measure of the power of a received satellites SNR carrier signal at the receiver Signal strength is generally measured in dBHz but there are differences between the various receiver types A low SNR is less than 30 dBHz whilst good SNR exceeds 40 dBHz Range Standard Deviation is a statistical parameter of the range data measured in meters The lower the standard deviation the higher the accuracy of the ranges is the range divided by the wavelength in metres Doppler effect is the change of signal frequency as the transmitting source moves closer or further away from the receiver The reading gives the Doppler difference between the transmitted carrier frequency at the satellite and the frequency received at the receiver The Doppler measurement is used to calculate the user velocity Rev No A Page 148 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 D
145. oke noia kp nns 120 10 2 REVISION HIS ORY E 123 1O 3 NEN E d RT 123 Rev No A Page 2 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 DA ABOUT E 123 Ti INDEX OF E Led E 124 A INSTACHNG VR dec 126 AI OCI A IN Eeer 126 B DONGLE DRIVER INS CALE ATION i ccivinsssiesiseteccesietnieonsnniesscecmtnnxencentascicsndetennaiceniecietwanksesinaacsceutnsenesscectnenseeeue 131 C DEVICE IO DESCRIPTIONS c M 132 388 OERAL POR TO p E 132 G2 CHEN SOOKE T A 133 CS OERVER SOCKE 0 134 CA DAFAGRAN 134 Co FEED EE 135 D hii edbpRuI ugtc 136 D ALNAN e 137 D 2 E GH wl TIET 141 BEC LO 142 DA El E El E A KE 144 IN I immi iss gie E EE E QT 146 BXcHEECOEGIU 200 d E ES 147 Du AINA IVE NG HE 147 p p HOND qp 149 DI OCTRACORREC HONS 151 D190 APEX EE Eed 152 E QUALITY CHEN Tat WEE 155 SS ES 99 9110 0 ieee
146. olution using GPS and GLONASS Constellations Uncorrected Settling Ultra initialisation fixes Ultra DGPS Settling initial Ultra orbit amp clock corrected fixes Ultra Settling Ultra converging Ultra Ultra converged Apex DGPS Settling initial Apex orbit amp clock corrected fixes Apex Settling Apex converging Apex Apex converged BU 1 Backup One calculation mode BU 2 Backup Two calculation mode Reduced Diff data from some stations is not received gt BU1 or BU2 indicate the Ultra or Apex calculation is currently unavailable and that the Backup One or Backup Two calculation is being output The indicates that backup smoothing is active The backup smoothing is used in the transition from Ultra or Apex to BU1 or BU 1 to BU 2 and vice versa to ensure a seamless transition avoiding a step in the position An indication of the overall fit of the observations to the statistical model The F Test F Test does not detect the source of any errors but gives an indication as to the pass or failure status of the test The ratio between actual and modelled errors Values range around 1 Unit Var Spikes in the unit variance indicates outliers and erroneous pseudo range measurements 9596 semi major axis of the error ellipse shown in the Track Plot view Sins Number of reference stations for which corrections are M E CH PES used in the M E CH PES Number of satellites used in the calculation Combined GPS
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148. on Calc Settings to bring up the Calc Settings dialogue box ge Cole Settings lc d Ei QU QU N Longitude Height above waterline Height 5D v Use Receiver Position i Fallback Smoothing Geoid Model FGMO6 EGM OB User jo Elevation Mask cmm ce Calc Settings It is advisable but not essential to enter a trial point into Verify QC to start the positioning process Entering the current approximate position as a trial point will speed up the calculation process Alternatively Receiver Position can be used and the trial point will be based on the uncorrected position as output by the GNSS receiver It is necessary to enter the user s location when referencing the calculated positions to the Trial Point in the Track Plot and Time Series windows This is of help when comparing a static point to the computed positions within Verify QC Page 27 v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 4 1 1 4 4 1 2 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 Height This measurement is the height of the GNSS antenna phase centre above the waterline of the vessel Offset between the base of the antenna and the antenna phase centre differs for each type e g the AD410 antenna has an offset of 45mm between the bottom of the antenna base and the L1 phase centre If using other types of antennae this offset must be ascertained The height information is used for Geoid Tides
149. on number for each GPS satellite For example if a satellite is referred to as PRN 13 this refers to the satellite that transmits the 13 weekly portion of the P code The Issue of Data Ephemeris identifies the set of ephemeris parameters and gives the user a means of detecting any change in these parameters The difference between the current time and time that the correction values were generated in seconds Delta X GPS orbit correction to the ECEF X coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres Delta Y GPS orbit correction to the ECEF Y coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres Delta Z GPS orbit correction to the ECEF Z coordinate of the broadcast ephemeris in metres ro Reference to the source of the Ultra corrections within the Veripos data Source network i e Primary or Secondary A transition between sources is managed within the Ultra algorithms Scale Factor Orbits Scale Factor Clocks D 10 APEX CORRECTIONS The View Differential Apex Corrections view displays the Apex corrections received and decoded by Verify QC io Yeripos Apex Corrections ES MEMBER RN NU SES Age T51 Seurce Clock T JJJ JJJ JJJ uU Uu uu gt Va aa PAA uem EN a LAT V cs PA nez Seca ECKE ce ET os EEGEN FA PO MA PO PO NY PO PO PO PO P2 PO PO PO PO PO P2 PO PO n2 P FA PO FA PO PO hO PO PO hO PAPA NY PO PO PO PO PAPA PA FA nO CIO IDE DOO Oa OO UE Oo c cc 0 QC cC CQ c c QC 0C Qc c0 cC 0 c 0 0 D 0 D 0 0
150. ons used for this fix See Comment 8 ew low Lu lam EE Satlitesusedforihisfik O O dents ore sations a r Variable Reference stations usea fortis ix Eracar at ae sng c Rev No A Page 167 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Comments 1 8 Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 The Nav point no is a unique integer identifying the position It should be input manually to the software according to requests from Navigations System operators Alternatively it should start from 1 and be incremented if several positions are output from the same system The system name should identify the system or contractor and software The Age of fix is the time of the first character of the data string being output to WesternGeco s positioning system minus the time of position WGS84 ellipsoid and datum must be used The height must be antenna height above the WGS84 ellipsoid The Variance and Covariance terms are elements from the variance covariance matrix of the position fix computation un scaled The External Reliability is the maximum positional effect of an undetectable error in an observation This quantity is related to the Power of the test probability that the MDE would be detected and the Significance level used a he values recommended by UKOOA should be used see UKOOA Guidelines for The use of Differenti
151. ools Window Help Ose ww oo ers30ao0 amp amp amp q Calculation Status f ox Position Ultra 11 December 2013 14 27 17 UTC Name Mode JF Test Unit Var Semi Major Stns SVs PDOP LD5 As Received No Test Ultra Ultra GPS Passed 0 364 0 04 1 of 1 11 1 967 Apex Apex GPS Passed 0 101 0 03 Joy ERE odas Position Apex Apex 14 27 17 UTC 57 08 42 60830 N 002 17 07 04012 W 57 08 42 60687 N 002 17 07 04193 W 188 23m 137 52 m Latitude WGS84 Longitude WGS84 Height WGS84 Reduced Height EGM96 Latitude WGS84 Longitude WGS84 Height WGS84 188 24 m PRN Station Resid ResidSD mde wStat wiest East North Reduced Height EGM9 137 52m 0 446 Passed 0 010 Ant Height 0 00 m 0 759 Passed 0 005 Geoid Sep EGM96 50 72m 0 548 Passed 0 012 MSS Tide MSS Not Available 0 533 Passed 0 009 Geoid Tide EGM96 0 108 Passed 0 003 Mode ees 0 674 Passed 0 002 0 548 Passed 0 009 Simple 0 485 Passed 0 007 Confidence 0 217 Passed 0 000 0 222 Passed 0 010 0 582 Passed 0 014 Degrees of Freedom Unit Variance Se RMS Latency Se xeu 1770 Wednesday 14 27 34 GPS A Semi Minor d GPS ultra zs g Station Man nx S EB GPS Source LD5 SEE 20 WO WO E 10 E20 E30 E i C1 Aberdeen okm Standard C2 Wick 160km C1 Aberdeen TWICE JU INC C3
152. ormation to be exported to an Excel file Selecting this option will open a standard Windows browse dialogue allowing the user to select a file name and path for the status report Rev No A Page 108 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No AB V MA 00585 v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Mu Recent Documents Desktop Mu Documents r Sr Mu Computer 1 My Network Generate Status Report Save Ir B Config t Events File name Verity Status Report csv Cancel Save as type Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 Status Report View Generate Status Report Page 109 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 7 6 LOGGING The Logging menu contains all views available to the user for monitoring the logging status Tools Window Help IO GPS GLO GNSS Differential Calculation QC Event Log Config Change Log Replay Files View Menu Logging The Logging functionality contains logging of all GNSS amp RTCM input data ALF and logging of GPS data in the Receiver Independent Exchange format RINEX Verify QC will create also event logs and a record of all configuration changes 7 6 1 Event Log View Logging Event Log will display the Verify QC event for the last 4 hours The event information is split over four columns with the heading Time Mode
153. ount Control Settings Control Panel Home Make changes to your user account Manage your credentials Change your picture Link online IDs Manage your file encryption certificates Configure advanced user profile properties To change your password press Ctrl Alt Del and select Change a password Change my environment variables Set the UAC to Never Notify and select OK After clicking OK restart the PC to apply changes A Page 65 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 kl User Account Control Settings iTell me more about User Account Control settings Always notify Never notify me when Programs try to install software or make changes to my computer I make changes to Windows settings Not recommended Choose this only if you need to use programs that are not certified for Windows 7 ien because they do not support User Account Control Never notify Page 66 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 7 1 Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual VIEW The View menu contains all views available to the user for monitoring the data input data quality positioning and QC status of Verify QC ey verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help GR o sV ro
154. ows highly stable and accurate DGPS corrections to be calculated which can be output to external DGPS systems or a telemetry link Note the PPP Hef calculation will only generate an RTCM output whilst the selected Apex or Ultra calculation has an converged status i e respectively reports Apex or Ultra in the Calculation Status View The full status of the PPP Ref calculation can be monitored using View Calculation PPP Ref The view displays the status of the PPP position calculation used as a virtual reference station location Initially following the start of the PPP calculation only the PPP position and its calculation status Mode are shown in the PPP Ref view Once the PPP calculation Rev No A Page 94 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 is converged i e reports Apex or Ultra the status of RTCM DGPS corrections that are currently being output is also displayed PPP Ref Calculation 1584 Thursday 23 57 32 GPS Latitude WGS84 BF OR 42 653689 M Longitude Wise 002 17 OF 2844 W Height WiGs84 180 76 m Reduced Height EGM596 130 04 m Geoid Sep EGM36 50 72 m Latency Unit Variance Semi Major PDOP ultra Settling PPP Ref View Position Status Table Once the calculation Mode depending on the selected PPP solution reaches an Ultra or Apex status the view expands to inc
155. pleteness of the information contained herein VERIPOS accepts no responsibility for any loss or liability which may arise from reliance on information that is contained within this documentation For further information visit the VERIPOS Online Support System VOSS web site hitp help veripos com Rev No A Page 5 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 2 1 2 2 2 3 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 INSTALLING VERIFY QC The Verify QC software can be supplied preinstalled on a PC or you can install from a CD inserted into a PC CDROM drive Note that you can install Verify QC without having an activated dongle but will not be able to run the application See Appendices for details on installing Verify QC PC REQUIREMENTS Installation requires a PC with Windows 7 or XP operating system This is the operating system platform supported by VERIPOS The PC is typically provided by VERIPOS to ensure compatibility Contact VERIPOS for specification details DONGLE DRIVER INSTALLATION Verify QC requires a Dongle driver to be installed on the PC oee the Help section in this manual or contact VERIPOS for details or if you require assistance AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE START UP Verify QC can be configured to start automatically on PC boot up by carrying out the following Windows XP Create a shortcut to Verify QC on the desktop Set Program Acces
156. r Precise indicator 0 false 1 true 7 HDOP hh h HDOP max 99 9 PDOP PDOP max 99 9 VDOP VV V VDOP max 99 9 Height h hh Antenna altitude above mean sea level Differential indicator 0 false 1 true Geoid Height Geoidal height Age of Age of differential GPS data correction 13 Course over CC C ground 14 Speed over SS S ground 15 RMS rrr RMS value of the standard deviation of the range inputs to the navigation process Range inputs include pseudo ranges and differential DGNSS corrections Semi major SD Standard deviation of semi major axis meters Rev No A Page 178 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Semi minor SD uu Standard deviation of semi minor axis meters Semi major Axis w ww Orientation of semi major axis of error ellipse orientation degrees Lat SD ES Standard deviation of latitude error meters lLonSD um Standard deviation of longitude error meters y yy No of GPS Svs FREE Number of GPS satellites in use U UU XX i Altitude SD Standard deviation of altitude error meters GPS IDs x X gp ID numbers of GPS satellites used in solution X x gl Ke X Reference nnnn Differential reference station composite ID 0000 otation ID to 1023 S No of Glonass Number of GLONASS satellites in use Svs Glonass IDs Xx x gl ID numbers of GLONASS satelli
157. r Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 7 4 CSL OUTPUT STATION IDS The CSL Output Format requires the RTCM Station IDs to be in a 2 digit format 00 to 99 The RTOM Format allows station IDs from 0000 to 1024 As a result Verify QC maps the stations received within Verify QC to the 2 digit format This is done by assigning the first received reference station to 00 the second received reference station to 01 and so on until all received stations have been mapped to a 2 digit code If the CSL IDs to be allocated exceeds 99 internally Verify QC shall to continue to number upwards e g 100 101 102 etc In the CSL output it will however restart at 00 In the CSL ID index table it will show 00 01 02 to indicate that these ID s are duplicates This view shows the station mapping for the configuration in use Sl cst out Ep CSL Output Station IDs Rev No A Page 83 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Calculation The Calculation menu contains all the views relating to the calculations COMER Verify File Config Logging Action view Tools Window Help Deale ole GN Differential Calculation Status LC Position Logging Tides PPP Ref View Differential Menu Structure 7 4 1 Calculation Status The Calculation Status view displays the current status of the configured calculations to give an indication of the quali
158. re operate and adjust Verify QC for optimum operation S Verify Delt File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help 1 DI x DGueo o m3a C q7 t Verify QC Main Menu Structure Functions are shown in icons on the task bar below the menu bar These help you to Create a New Configuration Open an Existing Configuration oave your Configuration Start logging data otart RINEX logging operates when enabled Archive logged data Disable GPS GLONASS satellites Switch to night time mode day time mode Increase font size Decrease font size Add notes to the configuration change log About Verify QC dialogue showing software version number O O O O O Er 0 0 0 KSE 1 DONGLE DEPENDANT FUNCTIONS An enabled dongle is required to operate Verify QC By default the dongle will support VERIPOS Standard calculation and associated functions A dongle can be enabled for additional software features Access to more advanced software functions is controlled by your dongle To confirm the functions enabled on your dongle its status can be viewed under Help Dongle View This manual describes all the Verify QC functions and views Where functions described in this manual are optional and additional this is stated A Page 9 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 The current dongle dependent Verify QC software functions are lis
159. rease the number of satellites and improve the DOP by reducing this elevation mask under Config Calculation Settings This dialogue permits DOP warnings to be disabled Restore DOP warnings in Action DOP Warnings Display Current DOP Warnings A Page 60 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 6 3 1 6 3 2 6 4 6 4 1 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 Hew A 18 05 19 50 Low SV 18 05 19 40 Poor PDOP 20 00 23 40 Poor PDOP ms D Wr c E omg EAE i Click Button to Display DOP View 2 Example DOP Warning Pop up The above example shows two periods of poor DOP and one period of low satellite numbers forecast over the coming 12 hour period Verify QC s program menu is locked out when the warning pop up box is open The pop up will disappear when the warning is acknowledged Access to Verify QC s program menu is restored Additional DOP warnings for the next 12 hours are shown in the Info Bar at the bottom left of the Verify QC main program window These are independent of the DOP warning enable disable status Disable The DOP warning feature can be disabled by ticking the Do not show this dialogue again box or select Action DOP Warnings Disable The DOP warning status can be reversed by selecting Action DOP Warnings Enab Display Current DOP warning To recall the most recent warnings select Action DOP Warnings D
160. rential DGNSS corrections ttt LU UU VW WW X XX y yy Z ZZ nnnn gp Xx x gp gl xx x gl c lt CR gt lt LF gt Standard deviation of semi major axis meters Standard deviation of semi minor axis meters Orientation of semi major axis of error ellipse degrees Standard deviation of latitude error meters Standard deviation of longitude error meters Standard deviation of altitude error meters Differential reference station composite ID 0000 to 1023 Number of GPS satellites in use ID numbers of GPS satellites used in solution Number of GLONASS satellites in use ID numbers of GLONASS satellites used in solution checksum carriage return and line feed Page 165 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No Rev No Date A AB V MA 00585 ADVANCED POSITIONING AND QC SENTENCES This section describes the message structure of the following advanced positioning and QC output messages WesternGeco TRINAV WesternGeco TRINAV v3 VERIPOS UKOOA Output VERIPOS UKOOA 2 Output GPLCT Veripos Applications Axiom O O Or X In order to provide the necessary outputs VERIPOS have designed two proprietary formats containing information relative to position information and statistical measure as recommended by UKOOA The VERIPOS UKOOA and VERIPOS UKOOA 2 outputs are in line with the recommendations used within the UKOOA standard The primary objec
161. rify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 5 1 4 4 5 1 5 4 6 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 IO Device The O Device section supports position output via Serial Port Server Socket and Datagram oee Appendices for details File IO The File Output option allows the user to log the output to the messages text file as well as output to the IO Device Click in the box for Enable and Browse to the location the file is to be stored The split at Midnight option creates a new file at midnight and attaches a date stamp to each filename File Output Iv Enable v Split at Midnight Filename cr Log Filestultra Log Browse o File Output Note User also has the option to amend any existing output settings Config Position Output CSL OUTPUT Note this menu option is available only with a CSL Output enabled dongle The CSL Raw Output option allows users to output a series of records to the Concept Systems Limited CSL ViIGPS process built into CSL navigation products This process can accept satellite data over an Ethernet or serial connection and convert it to CSL format For further information contact CSL www csl co uk CSL are a subsidiary of ION A Page 44 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 CSL Raw Output Mame esL Bam Output Rx ID Output IG Device serwer Socket S Corvor
162. rify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 DIFFERENTIAL The Differential menu contains all views relating to correction data Latency m Tools Window Help eo Differential gt Latency Calculation gt Ultra Latency QC gt Polar Plot Logging Station Map Station Data Ultra Corrections Apex Corrections Type 16 Messages Demodulator Status CSL Output Station IDs View Differential Menu The View Differential Latency view displays information about the age of the correction data for all stations and services with RTCM inputs A 06 05 2015 Latency E oj x 1693 Thursday 01 49 44 GPS GPS GLONASS dz Ultra A AR g 15 2 B isa 25 Apex A Eta 6 4 B BE bo as Standard Standard Plus i3LONASS C Houston 501 Carmen 503 D Tampa 509 C Tampico 510 Yes Os 40s amp 0s 120s DIALA local C 0s d s s ele s 240s sie Fale s ers s 120s A RTCA Inmarsat B RICH Spotbeam C Jo Latency View Page 76 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 The view contains separate columns for the various differential services provided by VERIPOS The VERIPOS Ultra and VERIPOS Apex messages contain orbit amp clock correction data for the GPS and GLONASS satellites VERIPOS Standard messages contain correction data for the L1 GPS ranges at the refere
163. rth East Scatter GPS and GLONASS w 5tandard Jw C 5td Plus Bis WA IC Trial Point e ecce eg T 3 SS f Me pi Time Scale E il M a 1 G d J 1 Hour 0 4 3 QC Plot dee North East Scatter SU Time Series View Scatter Plot In addition to selecting the five predefined views users can customise each view with the Time Scale and Plot pull down menus to the right of the screen Right click on the view and select Show Controls Hide Controls A graph for a calculation can be highlighted by clicking on the calculation name in the Position selection box The Position selection box can be hidden or shown Use the icon to expand the display When the box is open the user can select the calculations required for plotting select the square boxes and selecting the calculation or Trial point to be used as the reference position tick the round box Moving the pointer over a particular time series or scatter plot changes the cursor to a zoom magnifying icon and a box can be dragged over a selected area right mouse button to start the area to be reviewed This pauses the view adds a magnified graph of the selected area at the bottom of the screen and a small full graph at the top of the screen Rev No A Page 101 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No I Time Series Trial Point Zoomed Delta North Paused v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Stat
164. s the Unit variance Semi Major and PDOP of the calculated PPP Position and its calculation mode Rev No A Page 96 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 7 5 QC View QC accesses views displaying the position status and quality information ey verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help O cr he GPs NEC GNSS Differential Calculation k E NN Error Ellipses Logging Time Series Overall Status Calculation History Status Report View QC Menu 7 5 1 Error Ellipses Error Ellipses displays position error ellipses over the entire calculation setup Each ellipse is colour coded for ease of identification and a key displays the solution deviation compared to the selected reference solution c Ellipses Trial Point Relative e ia sl x GPS Stbd 0 57 A 4 gt Ultra gt Apex gt GPS and GLONASS Standard Xx Std Plus IALA Error Ellipses View Rev No A Page 97 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No Rev No Date A AB V MA 00585 The error ellipses view can be altered using the scroll wheel of the mouse Highlight the error ellipse for a specific calculation by clicking on the calculation name in the Position box Right clicking in the window a
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167. s broken down into thumbnails and a main plot Thumbnail views for the CA L1 and L2 observations are displayed for each satellite in view The user can select a thumbnail to get an enlarged CCF chart in the main display by clicking on it The CCF chart is a time series representation of the code carrier filter for each measurement of the last 15 minutes Which observations are available is receiver dependent L2 will only be available if the GPS receiver is a dual frequency unit For some single frequency receivers such as the DG14 16 only CA will be displayed Rev No A Page 142 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 i CCF Measurements GPS Hatch CCF PRN 30 L1 E PRN 30 L1 GPS CCF View The Red dots are raw unfiltered measurements from the GPS receiver The Black line is the mean of the raw measurements The Green line shows the result of the Code Carrier Filter and should follow the red dots Cycle slips are indicated by a blue vertical line Clicking the right mouse button in the window allows the user to change the appearance of the display CA L1 and L2 thumbnails can be switched on or off It also possible to hide the cycle slip indicators Scale allows the scale of the main plot to be selected The scale can either be automatically managed by Verify QC or set to one of the offered scales from 0 5m to 20m The thumbna
168. satellites Information is based on the reference station location and received GNSS almanac information The polar plot will be empty if this information is absent Polar Plot l B x Krk Lem og P25 Carmen 503 Below Mask hissing Unhealthy GP5 Single Freq GP5 Dual Freq GLONASS Single Freq GLONASS Dual Freq Disabled Tampa 509 Tampico 510 IALA local Polar Plot View Page 78 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 The polar plot is used to indicate the status of the corrections and the local observations The legend at the right hand side of the chart gives an interpretation for each colour used Details for GLONASS constellation can be hidden right click on the view and select Hide GLONASS 7 3 3 Station Map View Differential Station Map opens a map of the user work area The map is scaled automatically to fit the users location and the location of all reference stations selected in RTCM inputs and from which station location information has been received Station Map fol x 120 W 110 Ww 100 w 90 Ww sow FOW 60 W 50 w i Houston 501 28km IALA local 55km Baton Rouge 502 441km Tampico 510 864km Tampa 509 1288km Carmen 503 1297km Costa Rica 511 2504km Halifax 506 3255km Curacao 512 3385km Trinidad 504 4120km St Johns 505 4137km Elevation Azimuth
169. scenario in which a satellite goes rogue and transmits bad data without being flagged unhealthy GPS GLONASS satellites users can disable satellites in the matrix on the Verify QC menu bar at the top of the screen Unhealthy satellites are already shown in yellow Individual satellites can be disabled and removed from all calculations by clicking on the satellite number This number will be in red to indicate its disabled status Rev No A Page 72 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Click on the satellite number to Toggle between enable disable ff Project A Verify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help Dae nurmiejojcscoo CRAP GPS 01 07 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Glonass 01 027 03 04 05 06 07 0t 09 10 11 1 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 SV Disable Enable Note Use this facility with caution The status of any disabled satellite should be frequently reviewed Leaving healthy satellites in a disabled condition can seriously reduce positioning accuracy and stability 7 2 5 Missing SV Constellation Plot The missing SV Constellation Plot indicates satellite observations missing for one or more epochs Verify QC uses the GPS and GLONASS almanac to determine the satellites above the user s elevation mask and their visible position If a
170. sed 0 000 Angle PDOP HDOP VDOP SOG CMG Advanced Position View Right clicking in this window allows editing of the position calculation or copying contents to clipboard for use in another word application Calculation GN551 Copy w Ultra Apex Size bo Content e Position View Options The Advanced Position View includes several sections including Positions Table General Statistics Table Notes Table Error Ellipse View Constellation View Position Table The Position table displays the calculation name the time UTC and the geographical coordinates These include the height above the WGS84 reference ellipsoid Using the Geoid model selected by the user in Config Calculation Settings EGM96 EGMOSG or a user defined Geoid separation this ellipsoidal height is also split into a Geoid separation and height above this Geoid The reference for each coordinate and height value is indicated between brackets The right hand column gives standard deviation of the individual coordinate components The bottom row displays current calculation mode Rev No A Page 87 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No Position Table Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 v eripos Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 Position GNSS Rx Sle GNSS Rx 10 01 04 UTC Latitude WGS84 Di 08 42 61060 M Longitude IG 4 QO2 17 OF 04320 W Height IWGs 4 188 21 m Reduced He
171. ser Manual AB V MA 00585 MSS Tides 8 qc112capt Verify MSS Ultra Tides 10 Minute Interval File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help X Oe ww OS cPs 30 Goo c QQy Mean MSS Count 7 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 049 W Latest 132 512 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 049 W Date 11 December 2013 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 049 W Time 13 00 00 57 08 42 609 N 002 17 07 047 W 57 08 42 607 N 002 17 07 048 W Input Status 57 08 42 606 N 002 17 07 048 W Status Converged Date 12 December 2013 Time 09 28 17 Hold off Active Accuracy 0 04 57 08 42 607 N 002 17 07 047 W 57 08 42 607 N 002 17 07 048 W 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 050 W 57 08 42 607 N 002 17 07 049 W 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 048 W 57 08 42 607 N 002 17 07 050 W 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 050 W 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 050 W 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 050 W 57 08 42 608 N 002 17 07 050 W 57 08 42 609 N 002 17 07 049 WW 57 08 42 609 N 002 17 07 050 W 0 6 MSS Height 10 Minute Interval Min Max Avg 0 48 0 36 0 24 0 12 o EL Eu el em 10 12 13 12 00 11 12 13 12 00 12 12 13 Dongle 886 Days Remaining NUM 09 28 18 Tides calculation is available only with dongles specifically enabled for Tides and Apex and or Ultra If the dongle is not Tides enabled the MSS Tides menu option will NOT be shown in the
172. ser entered height of the antenna above the waterline As entered in Config Calculation Settings Estimate is only available after 39 hours of continuous operation Verify QC v1 12B now supports a Mean Sea Surface MSS model relative to which the user can estimate tides The Mean Sea Surface is the displacement of the sea surface relative to a mathematical model of the earth It closely follows the Geoid approximated by EGM models though with additional Mean Dynamic Topography deviations due to currents etc The implemented model is DTU10MSS created by the Danish National Space Institute see http www space dtu dk english Research Scientific data and models Global Mean sea surface This model has been derived by processing satellite altimetry datasets acquired over 17 years The grid used by Verify QC has a 2 minute by 2 minute resolution and an estimated accuracy of better than 10cm The first five time series contain three separate lines for the minimum red mean blue and maximum green height or tide values I Ultra Tides 10 Minute Interval ial x Time Count Average Std Dev Minimum Maximum Ave SD Latitude Longitude Semi Major Geoid Sep Count 0 11 0 21 3 0 11 36 16 950 N 001 43 31 122 E 0 07 44 60 Latest 00 0 10 0 0 10 36 16 950 N 001 43 31 122 E 0 06 44 60 Date 4 March 2007 50 i 0 08 0 0 08 36 16 956 N 001 43 31 116 E 0 06 44 60 Time 16 00 00 40 i 0 06
173. ses the null hypotheses will be rejected in favour of the particular alternative if no alternative then the null hypothesis will be accepted If this w test matched the proposed error patterns with the error patterns found in the observation and if no match is found the null hypothesis is accepted the size of the mde would have on the East component of the position the size of the mde would have on the North component of the position the size of the mde would have on the North component of the position A Page 90 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Error Ellipse and Constellation View The error ellipse and its scale default scale is 5m are displayed with the constellation of the GPS and GLONASS satellites GPS satellites are white circles GLONASS satellites are white squares Position View Error Ellipse and Constellation View 7 4 3 Tides View Calculation Tides opens the Tides table and a time series view The view options are accessible via right click Time Scale k Hide Table Hide Graph w Average Height Geoid Tide M55 Tide Hourly Height Hourly Tide M55 Reference Draft Change Vertical Bias User Entered 4ntenna Size Ea Content Tides View Menu Options The user can choose from nine time series Antenna Height a time series plotting the minimum maximum and mean height of the GPS antenna relative to the user
174. set click OK The Verify QC toolbar changes to include the following control buttons Play Fast Forward H Pause gt Step E Stop End Replay Mode Replay Control Buttons Replay is controlled with Tool bar buttons or using the Logging ALF Replay menu fey Replay v1 09 Yerify File Config Logging Action View Tools Window Help ALF Replay Fast Pause Step Stop Back En Live Replay Controls Pause replay at any time to allow current status and data analysis The step forward facility helps in this process When the data is being replayed the user can open views output data as GGA text files and monitor calculations as if the system was operating in live mode Input functions are disabled with software in replay mode If replay is used with the online computer and data inputs are still active the user can revert to live mode using the Logging ALF Heplay Back to live not recommended in practice Rev No A Page 51 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 5 2 RINEX Verify QC software supports RINEX v2 10 standard and can log GPS data files in the RINEX format Logging intervals of 1 15 and 30 seconds are available RINEX Logging menu RINEX logging must be ticked in Tools Advanced Options before RINEX logging can be used Use Logging RINEX Edit to bring up the RINEX Logg
175. spaces in between i e 3 12 Alphanumeric text fields must be left justified and numeric fields must be right justified The field sizes are selected with a space between each field This aids manual readability and protects against overflow Rev No A Page 169 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Document No Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 WesternGeco TRINAV V3 Sentence The WesternGeco Third Party Equipment GPS Interface Format V3 was introduced on 23 February 2009 It describe a standard GPS interface format applying to all installations of Third Party GPS equipment interfaced to WesternGeco Marine Positioning Systems Example WGPOS 3 1 Verify1 08 501 486140 00 2 0 23 56 73661N 96 17 34229W 4 197 0 8 1 6 1 2 9 0 055265 0 002591 0 062898 0 482222 0 35 3 0 1 10 3 2 10 12 15 18 2 1 24 26 29 30 501 502 503 WesternGeco TRINAV V3 sentence defined Rev No Date Content Start Character Format Version Nav Point No System Name Version GPS Week Number GPS Time of Fix Age of Fix Latitude Longitude Height HDOP VDOP Unit Variance Variance Latitude Covariance Lat Long Variance Longitude Variance Height External Reliability Fix Status Computation Type Correction Type No of Satellites n No of Ref Stations r PRN s of Sats Used Ref Station Idents End Character CRLF A 06 05 2015 Format Unit Comments ae In wePos o
176. ssible via a right mouse click on the view allows GLONASS information to be hidden and the contents of the Status Report View to be changed to show GNSS Health History information or RTCM Availability information DEE GNSS Health History Hide GLONASS RTCM Availabilty Generate Status Report Copy Status Report View Options The GNSS Health History View shows the PRN or Slot Number of GPS and GLONASS satellites and the time period they were unhealthy against the present day s 24 hour time scale Rev No A Page 107 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 MI Status Report GNSS Health History GPS All Healthy GLONASS aE ads LO an mj ghi A Tut 7 Pha P UA Abel UD UR 12 00 10 00 Status Report View GNSS Health History The RTOM Availability View shows the RTCM message availability of Ultra Apex and individual DGPS reference stations since the start of the present day The number of station outages exceeding 5 minutes is listed in a separate column fi status Report RTCM Availabilty Ultra Apex Houston 501 Baton Rouge 502 Carmen 503 Tampa 509 Tampico 510 ISLA local Trinidad 04 St Johns 605 Halifax 506 Costa Rica 511 Curacao 512 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Status Report View RTCM Availability The view options dialogue allows the current status report inf
177. stiansund 7 04 Tananger F05 Additional Stations Edit Input IO Device None SCH RTCM Input dialogue Rev No A Page 18 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 2 1 1 RTCM Name 4 2 1 2 Rev No Date If using more than one RTCM Data link it is good working practice to allocate a more descriptive Name to each link This allows each link to be easily identified by the operator The use of a descriptive naming convention will assist in distinguishing the RTCM source when operating Verify QC If no name is entered for an RTCM input name will default to the VERIPOS beam name There are no software limitations to the number of RTCM data links that can be interfaced into Verify QC RT CM Beam Once RTOM Input has been named use the drop down menu to identify the Beam supplying the RTCM message selecting the correct beam is important as each one has a predefined list of VERIPOS stations Note The beam selection in the receiver and Verify QC need to be paired i e selecting a Beam in Verify QC only determines which stations are displayed in the station list it does not control which Beam is selected in the VERIPOS demodulator The demodulator must also be configured to use this same Beam see demodulator manual Station Data Iv Weripos Secondary via NTRIP Mode user Configurable M Beam AORIE
178. t checksum carriage return and line feed NMEA GNS Sentence The NMEA GNS sentence contains time and position fix related data for a single or combined satellite navigation system Separate GPGNS and GLGNS sentences are used to report data calculated from individual systems if a combined GPS GLONASS position is output A single string will be output if no GLONASS data is in use Structure and Example GPGNS hhmmss ss ddmm mmmmmmm a dddmm mmmmmmm b Q ss p p h h 9 9 l l nnnn cc CR LF GNGNS 104601 00 5707 7332018 N 00204 7778500 W DD 12 0 71 24 743 50 284 45 GPGNS 104601 00 09 3 0 0001 44 GLGNS 104601 00 03 3 4 0001 56 GNS sentence defined GNS GNSS Fix Data hhmmss ss UTC of position ddmm mmmmmmm latitude of position a N or S latitude hemisphere dddmm mmmmmmm longitude of position b E or W longitude hemisphere Q Mode Indicator First character is for the GPS system the second character for the GLONASS system N No Fix A Autonomous D Differential P Precise R Real Time Kinematic F Float RTK E Estimated M Manual Input Mode S Simulation Mode SS number of satellites in use p p horizontal dilution of precision h h antenna altitude above mean sea level g g Geoidal height l l age of differential GPS data nnnn Differential reference station ID 0000 to 1023 cc lt CR gt lt LF gt checksum carriage return and line feed A Page 162 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual
179. t Almanac data for each satellite in view The almanac contains orbit information of all the satellites the satellite clock parameters ionospheric and tropospheric delay parameters GPS Almanac PRN 01 EHE GLONASS Almanac Slot 04 MAR ROS kOe RO ROS rear 8 seeds ee RS ced dee ESI Ree pees hed ROS RhOe ROT FOS aS E RIS AIB RAI e RS eed GPS Almanac PRN 01 17712 14 05 30 1771 3 16 44 48 Q Healthy 0 0025992595 85 0158920288 OMEGADOT O OOO00044 99 AMEE 153 627 9296870 OMEGA lo 67 90356172793 t z4 587 50986321 VW 129 3444657526 am O ODO09441 38 afi 0 OOOOO00000 GLONASS Almanac Slot O4 17710 21 00 42 6 1 Healthy 716 9q 3358 KSE 0 000358 B T 1 5892 2655 996 D DODOS 0 0000535 Almanac View Clicking on the BLUE satellite numbers changes the displayed data to that particular satellite Rev No A Page 137 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Rev No Date GPS Almanac Data based on the 5 Least Significant Bits LSB of the 8 bit health words in the navigation sub frame data The health flag ranges from 0 255 A non zero value indicates that the satellite is unhealth e Eccentricity 0U 0 io Inclination angle at reference time 1 1 O Oo _ A A02 longitude of ascending Node of Orbit Plane at Weekly Epoch Satellite clock
180. t No AB V MA 00585 Ie emmm Rev No A Page 182 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Doodson txt General Description The Doodson txt file contains current system height and tide information at hourly intervals The information in this file is consistent with the information contained in the file Tidelnfo txt but information has been condensed to a fixed averaging period of one hour This file contains comma delimited strings with variable length fields Null fields indicate that no information is currently available they should not be interpreted as zero A checksum is included for extra robustness Negative tide is low tide and positive tide is high tide respectively UltraTide 20070301 23 00 00 31 3600 3599 5236 2829 N 00143 5183 E 5 90 0 09 0 11 5 74 6 06 5 45 0 45 0 18 5 72 44 84 0 00 0 27 EGM96 22 Field Field Name Format or Units Description amp Comments Number TalkerlD UltraTide or VQC112Tide Dependant on user configuration yyyymmdd Identifies year month and day for which all information in the string is valid hh mm ss UTC Identifies time in UTC for which all information in the string is valid or ssssssssss GPS 3 Sequence Number numerical Sequential number incrementing by 1 for every extra string Maximum is 99999999 after which an automatic reset back to 1 takes place
181. t provided its mode is Differential or Reduced Differential 3 Alternatively the Backup Two solution or the Backup Three solution or the Backup Four solution will be output provided its mode is Differential or Reduced Differential 4 Alternatively an uncorrected solution will be output oteps 2 3 amp 4 are omitted from the process if no backup solutions have been selected Rev No A Page 34 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 4 4 Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 A smoothing process is used during switches between the different stages of the backup process allowing Verify QC to seamlessly fall back without steps or interrupting in the Ultra position output The smoothing process removes the initial difference between the previous and current calculation stage over a 100sec time period Apex This menu option is available only with an Apex enabled dongle VERIPOS Apex service is based on the Precise Point Positioning PPP technique Using this technique the GNSS orbit and clock errors in the GNSS systems are corrected and remaining system errors are estimated or mitigated to a high degree of accuracy giving a position solution with a decimetre level accuracy The Apex calculation is automatically made available when the dongle is enabled for Apex The Ape
182. ta type defines the interpretation of the rest of the sentence Each data type has its own unique interpretation and is defined in the NMEA standard Each sentence begins with a and ends with a carriage return line feed sequence no longer than 80 characters of visible text plus the line terminators The data is contained within this single line with data items separated by commas The data itself is ASCII text and may extend over multiple sentences in certain specialized instances but is normally fully contained in one variable length sentence The data may vary in the amount of precision contained in the sentence For example time might be indicated to decimal parts of a second or location may be shown with 3 or even 5 digits after the decimal point Programs reading the data should only use the commas to determine the field boundaries and not depend on column positions There is a provision for a checksum at the end of each sentence which may or may not be checked by the unit reading the data The checksum field consists of a and two hex digits representing the exclusive OR of all characters between but not including the and A checksum is required on some sentences There have been several changes to the standard but for GPS use the only ones that are likely to be encountered are 1 5 and 2 0 through 2 3 Version 2 3 added a mode indicator to several sentences used to indicate the kind of fix the receiver currently has The value can be
183. tablished A Page 16 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Three steps are required e set Verify QC to match the existing receiver baud rate setting see reference table in Appendices e where the baud rate is less than 57600 the receiver baud must then be reset to 38400 or greater Use Action Receiver Set receiver baud rate tool e finally adjust the GNSS Receiver IO Device setting in Verify QC to match the revised receiver baud rate Notes a minimum baud rate of 38400 is required for correct system operation Receivers With initial settings lower than this value should be reset to 38400 once communications have been established The above procedure can be used to reset the baud rate for most receivers Where you do not know the receiver baud rate try using default serial port baud rates as detailed in the Appendix If problems are encountered with matching Verify QC with the default serial port setting of GNSS receivers then these setting must be changed by reference to the manufacturer instructions Alternatively use the Verify QC tool under Action Receiver Establish baud rate Click Confirm once all GNSS receiver input settings have been made Verify QC will then configure the GNSS receiver and enable output on the selected port for operation with the software Where using an IP connection to your receiver e g when using a Veripos LD5
184. tained in the Tidelnfo txt and Doodson txt files This file contains comma delimited strings with variable length fields Null fields indicate that no information is currently available they should not be interpreted as zero A checksum is included for extra robustness Negative tide is high tide and positive tide is low tide respectively 12 20 22 09 2006 0 88 Field Field Name Format or Units Description amp Comments Number Hours Hours in the day UTC Time for which all information in the string is valid Minutes Minutes in the day UTC Time for which all information in the string is valid Day Day in the month MM Month in the year UltraTide hh hh metres Local UltraTide based on the Mean Sea Surface derived from the Doodson filter First available after 39 hours Set as 99999 99 when no UltraTide value is available Fixed end delimiter real time output only Rev No A Page 185 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 H GNSS RECEIVER LIST The table below lists the default baud rates used by the GNSS manufacturers of receivers supported by Verify QC VERIPOS recommends a baud rate of no less than 38400 for raw GNSS measurements GNSS Receiver List Default baud rate Septentrio AsteRx 115200 Septentrio AsteRx2eH 115200 Topcon Javad 38400 Magellan ZX Sensor 57600 Magellan DG14 16 38400 Nov
185. te of change right ascension IDOT Rate of change of inclination angle D 3 GPS CCF The Code Carrier Filter CCF displays the GPS observation filtering process as a time series plot Two fundamental observables can be derived from the GPS signal the code and the carrier The Code or Pseudo Range PR is derived from the time difference between the transmitted code and that of the receiver code The carrier is the continuous wave frequency upon which the code is modulated At the receiver the carrier or the integrated Doppler measurements are less affected by multipath compared to the code measurements The CCF uses the more stable carrier measurements to filter and smooth the code measurements These smoothed code measurements are then used in the position calculation process If the CCF reading is permanently high or fluctuates then the code measurements are suffering from increased noise This is common for low elevation satellites or satellites that are tracked intermittently If poor CCF readings are seen on all satellite and also at higher elevation then it is likely that interference is present the receiver antenna is badly positioned or there is a problem with the antenna cable connections Cycle slips are a loss of lock on the carrier wave and this can also be seen in the CCF graph by means of a blue vertical line If there are large numbers of cycle slips then the positioning of the antenna should be looked at The CCF view i
186. ted below O Ultra Apex GLONASS CSL Output Tides PPP Ref Axiom Demo introduces the Ultra calculation and associated functions Ultra is a PPP Precise Point Positioning calculation offering decimetre level accuracies introduces the Apex calculation and associated functions Apex is a PPP Precise Point Positioning calculation offering decimetre level accuracies introduces a combined GPS GLONASS calculation and associated functionality Note The combined GPS GLONASS calculations are only available when a Topcon Septentrio AsteRx or NovAtel receiver is selected introduces an additional interface for output of P2 94 records to the Concept Systems Limited CSL ViIGPS process in various CSL navigation products Tide calculation including Mean Seas Surface and associated functions Tides requires Apex or Ultra service to be enabled on your dongle The Tides calculation estimates the real time tide at the users location introduces a virtual base station RTCM Output based on the current PPP position which is used as a virtual reference station location This function allows highly stable and accurate DGPS corrections to be calculated and then be output to external DGPS systems or a telemetry link Use with the 4 D Veripos positioning software suite the demo function allows users to replay predefined demonstration datasets using associated fixed configurations To make use of this requires the Verify
187. tency thresholds green lt 60sec orange lt 90 sec and red gt 90sec indicates which satellites are included in the position calculation green Satellites not included in the calculation due to missing GPS GLONASS observations or their corrections or due to w test rejection are shown in red as are disabled satellites Satellites below the elevation mask at the user end are shown in white indicates the output status of each position output Green indicates a data message output recently and the number indicates the length of message The appearance of the view can be changed by selecting the relevant options after right clicking on the view w Display L2 wv Display GLONASS w Display PRMs wv Display Polar Plot w Narrow Display Wide Display Overall Status View Options Mouse clicking on each coloured box will open the relevant view with additional information Clicking on the receiver input RTCM input and position output boxes will open the IO View Clicking on the corrections area will open the Differential Data view for that particular station Clicking on the calculation area will open the Position view for that particular calculation It is also possible to open the Almanac GPS amp GLONASS Ephemeris GPS amp GLONASS Measurements Latency and Station Map by clicking on the relevant areas Rev No A Date 06 05 2015 Page 105 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document title Document No 7 5
188. tes used in solution SSES 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2 28 Rev No A Page 179 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 G TIDES LOGGING FILE FORMATS The Tides functionality will create three files in ASCII format e ideinfo txt e Doodson txt e SPRINT Tides txt The structure of each of these files is outlined in the tables below Tideinfo txt General Description The Tidelnfo txt file contains current system height and tide information at the Averaging Period as configured by the Verify QC user This file contains comma delimited strings with variable length fields Null fields indicate that no information is currently available they should not be interpreted as zero A checksum is included for extra robustness Negative tide is low tide and positive tide is high tide respectively UltraTide 20070228 21 40 00 28 600 600 5236 2830 N 00143 5184 E 5 74 0 08 0 07 5 66 5 82 5 45 0 29 0 02 5 72 44 84 0 00 0 27 EGM96 2B Field Field Name Format or Units Description amp Comments Number TalkerlD UltraTide or VQC112Tide Dependant on user configuration Date yyyymmdd Identifies year month and day for which all information in the string is valid Identifies time in UTC or GPS for which all information in the string is valid Time UTC or GPS hh mm ss UTC or ssssssssss GPS 3 Sequenc
189. the user s location The GLONASS Location box displays the contents of the RTCM Type 32 message It also includes information about the relationship between the Type 3 and the Type 32 i e the PZ 90 to WGS84 datum shift The following shifts may be detected otandard Shift used by Topcon Javad RTCM Shift published in RTCM v2 3 NovAtel Shift used by NovAtel No Shift Unknown Shift O O OOO If an unknown shift is detected the 3D residual after applying the Standard Shift is displayed in brackets A Page 149 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Note GLONASS users should carefully consider whether a non VERIPOS reference station with an unknown datum shift should be incorporated in any of the position calculations in Verify QC Right clicking in the display allows the user to select a different reference station to be displayed It is also possible to hide the GLONASS correction data ime v GPS GLO Aberdeen 777 Copy Show GLONASS Differential Data View Options GPS Specific Differential Data mm Pseudo Random Noise code is a unique identification number for each GPS PRN satellite For example if a satellite is referred to as PRN 13 it is identified as the satellite that transmits the 13 weekly portion of the P code giving the user a means of detecting changes in these parameters is the rate of change of the lono De
190. tive of the formats is to provide an output containing all the main proprietary advanced positioning and QC information used by the majority of navigation systems and DP systems within industry The formats allow the transfer of enough information to produce statistical testing when required and contain the positioning and QC information required by navigational systems The VERIPOS formats contain also extra information unique to the VERIPOS system The format is variable in length as it includes the number of satellites and the PRN numbers of the satellites used in the calculation Additionally the number of reference stations used and their ID s are included As these fields change length of the message changes also To assist with integration to the other systems the variable fields are included at the end of the message and the length of the message is included at the start Page 166 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 WesternGeco TRINAV Sentence Example 0102 1 Verify108 501 486140 0 2 0 23 56 73661N 096 17 34229W 4 2 0 8 1 6 1 28 0 06 0 00 0 06 0 48 0 3310 3 210 12 15 18 21 24 26 29 30501502503 WesternGeco TRINAV sentence defined om em mmm omens 000 Antenna height above WGS84 ellipsoid See comment 4 varare paan 63 Deal mi Iessen Fasas Ip ul ss eene Ee No of Ref Stations r 118 No of ref stati
191. tra GLONASS n 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 01 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 3 24 083 i o Ultra 28 E e E Apex v0 23 ME 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 01 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 CR y ec imn zie Standard 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 01 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 Aberdeen 777 fw Wick 701 Falmouth 706 Standard Plus l 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 01 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 Bologna 708 ll l E Marbella 710 Standard GLONASS l 11 14 17 19 20 23 28 31 32 01 07 08 09 17 22 23 24 Aberdeen 777 d d Wick 701 Ra m Kristiansund 704 lcd Falmouth 706 BH Overall Status View The overall status view has three zones The area to the left indicates the status of the inputs the centre area indicates the status of the received GPS GLONASS and RTCM data and the area to the right indicates the status of the outputs Each area is described in more detail as follows Inputs area indicates if the receiver data is being received and decoded When Heceiver both halves are green the receiver data is receiving and decoding successfully Red indicates a failure indicates whether almanac information is available for each satellite GPS GLONASS green Unhealthy satellites are shown in yellow and disabled satellites are shown in red indicates that the RTCM data for each RTCM input is being received RTCM Link x and decoded If both halves are green then the RTCM data is received and d
192. tructure A number of Advanced Views have been deselected by default However by default all options enabled on the Verify QC dongle will appear enabled in a new configuration Options will be presented depending on the features available from the selected GNSS card Page 11 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 3 4 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 If views are enabled ticked their enable status is stored in the Verify QC configuration file An updated view menu structure will be available when Verify QC is run Further views may be selected as the options under Views are not all dongle dependent Those Options not supported by the dongle are greyed out Options selected or deselected are stored when you save the configuration file and will be in place when you reopen the configuration file This manual covers all Verify QC functions and views If any are absent please first check the dongle enable status under Help Dongle View and your selections under Tools Advanced Options TOPCON JAVAD PREFILTER Topcon and Javad receivers set a status flag for each GNSS satellite measurement The Topcon PreFilter allows Verify QC to filter out satellites the receiver has deemed non optimal before presenting the data to the calculations If the Topcon Prefilter option is un ticked the Pre Filter is disabled and Verify QC will only use its filter
193. ty of these calculations All calculations setup in the Configure Calculations page are listed Ultra and Apex calculations will only be shown if the dongle has been enabled for these services BlCalculation Status 16 January 2012 1h 03 25 UTC GPS LG 45064 45 Received Ultra Ultra GPS4 GL0 Apex Apex GPS Std ME L1 Diff GPs StdPlus LIL Diff GPS StdGlonass L1 Diff GPS GL0 Standard L1 Diff GPs Calculation Status View The top of the table shows the current date and time in UTC Note Clicking the left mouse button on a calculation name will open up a Position view containing more detailed calculation status information with toggle between advanced and simple views Rev No A Page 84 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Calculation Status Data Current mode of the calculation This is the prime indicator of the current calculation status Possible modes are As Received indicates the position as generated by the external GPS receiver No Position No Solution Uncorrected no differential correction has been applied L1 Solution using single frequency measurements L1 L2 Solution using Dual frequency measurements Diff differential corrections have been applied for all stations Reduced differential corrections have been applied for some stations GPS Solution using GPS Constellation only GPS GLO S
194. und knots Range 0 00 to 999 99 PDOP pp pp PDOP Fixed end delimiter 1 Looss 700 C Longitude dddmm mmmmmm Degrees and decimal minutes 6 digits on the decimal minutes C Rev No A Page 177 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Veripos Applications Axiom The Axiom INS message is a proprietary message containing the variables required for the VERIPOS INS Module Axiom INS General Description This string is comma delimited but with fixed length fields A checksum is included for extra robustness The string is 87 characters including the character and the checksum INS Ahmmss ss ddmm mmmmmmm a dddmm mmmmmmm b D P hh h pp p vv v h hh g gg l Il cc c ss s r rr t tt U UU W WW X XX y Vy Z ZZ NNNN gp xx x gp gl xx x gl c lt CR gt lt LF gt GPINS 120102 00 5708 7102489 N 00217 1179453 W 1 1 0 6 1 1 0 9 137 57 50 72 27 20 190 8 53 0 007 0 04 0 04 0 03 124 22 0 04 0 04 0 04 0081 10 02 04 05 07 10 16 20 23 29 30 9 04 05 06 13 14 15 20 21 22 5A Comment eee INS INS fixed field that identifies the string Field Name Format or Units 1 Latitude ddmm mmmmmm m Latitude Hemisphere UTC of position Latitude of position N or S latitude hemisphere dddmm mmmmmm Longitude of position m Longitude E or W longitude hemisphere Hemisphere 5 Differential indicato
195. v eripos Verify QC User Manual Version 1 12B VERIPOS oo NN A 11 05 2015 Approved for release AR RH RR 1 06 05 2015 Forreview AR j j REVISION DATE DESCRIPTION ORIGINATOR CHECKED APPROVED CLIENT APPR Document Title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 File Ref AB V MA 00585 doc p v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION E 4 INSTALLING I A cm m 6 2i PO REQUIREMENTS MPR 6 22 DONGLEDRIVER INSTALLATION E 6 2 3 AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE START UR 6 FUNCTIONAL OVEBVIEW nue zua cvm una drasUu uo US asas dae wU EFE UUME REC E duum Eden 9 31 MENU STRUC TOURE E 9 3 2 DONGLE DERENDANTEUNGCTIONS mIm mem nrm menn rere re re rere rrr rrr 9 3 3 USER SELECTABLE FUNG TIONS iieuusuis sa buses rz uS Md impu kbat rue aUS re betkH Sap Dua E ms vua pa anra gotb ko n am vr eia 11 94 TOPCON JAVAD Cu a NEE 12 2o LM D 13 eeyiociiue mee 14 Al CONFIGURE GNSS RECEIVER EE 15 4 2 CONFIGURE RICM INPUT EE 18 43 DEMODULATOR IMP ON RE 26 SS EE e Ee RE 9 G EE 27 To POSON INFO Peers rn ee eee eee eee ee 42 SS MEME C MORSU E E ee ee eee eee eee eee ee 44 BO GIN Le 46 PE E
196. v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 This is the scale factor as a code which could be either O or 1 e O scale factor for pseudo range correction is better than 0 02 meter and for range rate correction is 0 002 meter second 1 scale factor for pseudo range correction is better than 0 32 meter and for range rate correction is 0 032 meter second oseudo range at the reference station This is the rate of change in meters of the pseudo range corrections User Differential Range Error An estimate of the performance of the satellites pseudo range as measured at the reference station in meters This number is provided as part of the RTCM Type 1 messages in the form of a binary code 0 to 3 0 lt 1 meter at 1 sigma 1 gt 1 meter and lt 4 meter at 1 sigma 2 gt 4 meter and lt 8 meter at 1 sigma 3 8 meter at 1 sigma IODE Data Ephemeris identifies the set of ephemeris parameters Gives the user a means of detecting change The PPP Ref position table displays the GPS week day and time and the geographical WGS84 coordinates for the Apex or Ultra solution The table also includes the height above the Geoid model selected by the user in Config Calculation Settings and the separation value from this Geoid model The column to the right shows the standard deviation of the individual coordinate components The rows underneath show the latency of the last received Apex Ultra correction
197. v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 3 DEMODULATOR INPUT The demodulator input is the Demodulator Status message from the L Band Demodulators in VERIPOS IMUs To add a Demodulator Input click Config Demodulator Input New Demodulator Input x Name Type LD2 Input IO Device se rial Port v Port Baud Data Bits Parity Stop Bits SCH Demodulator Status 4 3 1 1 Type Verify QC supports Demodulator Status messages from each of the following IMUs LD2 S LD3 S LD4 LD5 LD6 LD7 To determine how the messages are output from each IMU types refer to the relevant IMU manual 4 3 1 2 IO Device The O Device section supports Demodulator inputs via Serial Port Client Socket and Datagram Guideline settings for Demodulator input data e Baud Rate 115200 e Data Bits 8 e Parity None e Stop Bits 1 Users should consult the demodulator manual to confirm the settings Rev No A Page 26 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 4 4 4 4 1 Rev No Date A 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual AB V MA 00585 CALCULATION There are no software limitations to the amount of calculations that can be configured in Verify QC Limits are defined by the user hardware particularly the availability of processor and memory resources Settings Click Config Calculati
198. vices e accepts corrections from 3 party non VERIPOS sources e g IALA e capable of multi reference station and single station GPS only GLONASS only and GPS GLONASS calculations e capable of use of high accuracy Precise Point Positioning PPP calculations e capable of real time tidal calculations e provides statistical analysis and QC information e compliant with UKOOA recommendations e unlimited number of position calculations e raw and computed data can be logged for analysis and replay e output position solutions no limit and associated QC information e supports TCP IP communication Disclaimer VERIPOS accepts no responsibility for any damage or injury to the system ship or personnel caused by drawings instructions or procedures not prepared by VERIPOS Copyright 2004 2014 VERIPOS All rights reserved No part of this documentation may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage and retrieval systems without a licence from VERIPOS as copyright owner granting such permission Applications for such licence should be addressed to VERIPOS Veripos House 1B Farburn Terrace Dyce Aberdeen AB21 7DT UK No representation warranty or undertaking express or implied is or will be made and no responsibility or liability will be accepted by VERIPOS or by any of its officers employees agents or advisors as to the accuracy or com
199. vious status message number of received data block sync losses recorded since the previous status message rons number of encoded data block errors recorded since the previous status message VERIPOS satellite beam selected minimum average and maximum values of the bit error rate BER recorded BER since the previous status message Range E5 E7 minimum average and maximum values of signal strength voltage recorded Voltage since the previous status message 2 0 3 5v representation of the five status flags or diamonds displayed on the Signal Status Page The state of the flags is recorded throughout the time interval It will read 11111 if no losses have been detected If one or more flags changes state during the time interval the corresponding bit in the TEST message will change to 0 and remain in this state until the start of the next measurement interval service identifier R or V refers to a VERIPOS provided service U indicates an unrecognised service In the event of significant interruption of the received signal this field may appear blank Flags ECENED Hide Table AORAN Hide Graph Demodulator Status View Options Right clicking on the view menu allows the user to view the demodulator status information of another demodulator source or simplify by hiding the table or the graph Rev No A Page 82 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B Use
200. within its calculations to determine sub optimal satellites The Pre Filter is enabled as default To disable the Pre Filter Follow these steps Note The Topcon PreFilter option is greyed out until the GNSS receiver type is set in the menu option Config GNSS Receiver 1 In the Config GNSS Receiver menu select the Toocon Javad card 2 In Tools Advanced Options select tick or deselect un tick Topcon PreFilter option Advanced Options Advanced Options Views Options Views Options Iv all V GLONASS iw AI v GLONASS GNSS Topcon PreFilter GNSS w Topcon PreFilter j Iv PPP Ref Calculation jw Almanac id i Ref Calculation Iv Almanac Tides V GPS Ephemeris Tides M GPS Ephemeris UM V GPS CCF A RINEX Logging GPS CCF A g V GPS Measurements v CSL Output GPS Measurements P Iv Glonass Ephemeris V Always show on start up Glonass Ephemeris w Always show an start up Iw Glonass CCF Glanass CCF iw Glonass Measurements Glonass Measurements Differential Differential Iw Station Data W Station Data IV Apex Corrections IV Apex Corrections c o Topcon PreFilter not selected Topcon PreFilter selected Page 12 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No 3 5 3 5 1 Rev No Date AB V MA 00585 FILE The standard Windows commands File New File Open File Save File Save As and File Exit allow the user to create a new configuration file and sav
201. x Additional Stations RTCM Mode selection RTCM Stations If the user has selected User Configurable next select the actual Stations to be decoded by Verify QC Note Use VeriChart planning software available from help veripos com to determine the stations appropriate for the work area Verify QC will NOT use any selected stations that are 2500km or more from the users location The reference station selection in the demodulator and in Verify QC need to be matched such that all stations required for calculations in Verify QC are also enabled on the corresponding RTCM output port of the demodulator Page 20 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 Kristiansund 704 W Tananger 705 RTCM Stations 4 2 1 5 Additional Stations Previously undefined VERIPOS stations can be added to the station list of a VERIPOS beam You will need to add these when VERIPOS announces a new station available on that beam Users can add a station by selecting Edit under Additional Stations The Additional otations dialogue will open and new stations can be defined edited or deleted Additional Stations for AOR E 0789 New Station Additional Stations dialogue Rev No A Page 21 Date 06 05 2015 Verify QC v1 12B User Manual v eripos Document title Verify QC v1 12B User Manual Document No AB V MA 00585 4 2 1 6 4 2 1 7
202. x calculation is possible where the conditions exist as follows 1 The Verify QC dongle is enabled for Apex 2 GPS receiver has dual channels and is receiving both frequencies 3 The VERIPOS demodulator is enabled for the Apex Service 4 The Apex station ID is enabled on the demodulator output port 5 The Veripos check box is ticked in the Station Data dialog box The Apex GPS and GLONASS Apex calculation requires the following additions 5 The Verify QC dongle is enabled for Apex and Glonass 6 GNSS receiver is enabled for GPS and GLONASS has dual channels and is receiving both frequencies 7 The VERIPOS demodulator is enabled for the Apex Service 8 The Apex GPS station ID AND GLONASS station ID are enabled on the demodulator output port The Config Calculation Apex option allows users to select the PPP Mode and up to 4 backup solutions for when the Apex solution is not available The backup solutions can be selected from Ultra or the user defined Standard or Standard calculations see New DGNSS Calc section in this manual The PPP Mode dictates which constellation is used in the Apex calculation This will be GPS Only or GPS and Glonass The PPP Mode is available if Apex and Glonass options are enabled on the dongle and Glonass is ticked in Advanced Options If Glonass is not enabled on the dongle or ticked in Advanced Options the Apex calculation will be GPS Only Page 35 v eripos Document t
203. y 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 15 Data for Pescara 708 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 1 Data for Marbella 710 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of Insufficient Measurements Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 15 Data for Marbella 710 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of Switching to Uncorrected Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 1 Data for Kristiansund 704 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of No Type 1 Data for Tananger 705 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 53 start of Insufficient Measurements Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 54 start of No L1 Measurement for PRN 23 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 54 start of No L1 Measurement for PRN 20 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 54 end of No GPS Ephemeris Available Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 May 2007 13 16 54 start of No L1 Measurement for PRN 25 Standard 01 05 07 13 16 Information Calculation Standard at 1 Mav 2007 13 16 54 start of No L1 Measureme

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