[teqc] GeoGenius
Gerry Creager N5JXS
gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Thu Sep 2 21:22:01 MDT 2004
Er... My point was that the unwanted/unwarranted GeoGenius translation
was at fault.
gerry
John Galvin wrote:
> Gerry,
>
> That's all well and good to standardise on teqc, but for this case,
> you're still going through an unwanted translation from Ashtec binary to
> GeoGenius format. Or rather the website offering the files in GeoGenius
> format, have performed the unwanted translation. Whether you run
> GeoGenius to do a further translation to Rinex , or Lou modifies Teqc to
> do it, the potential for damage is already past.
>
> I'm sure that whomever is posting these GeoGenius files on that website
> thinks that they're helping, by translating raw Ashtec binary to
> GeoGenius. Perhaps it would be easiest, just to ask them to use Teqc to
> directly translate Ashtec binary to Rinex, or better yet, just post the
> Ashtec binary, in the first place?
>
> John Galvin
>
>
> */Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>/* wrote:
>
> I, for one, have tried to standardise on tecq for my translations. When
> I use the vendor-de-jure translation tool, results can vary and this
> leads to problems in quality control. So far, tecq has been pretty
> consistent for my needs, and Lou responsive to requests.
>
> If we can use tecq to translate the GeoGenius files, we retain
> consistency. If we can't, I guess someone's going to have to develop
> another QC test.
>
> Gerry
>
> John Galvin wrote:
> > Lou,
> >
> > I don't know what is all the fuss about the GeoGenius .OBS files,
> because
> > GeoGenius has the capability to export Rinex in both standard and
> compressed
> > forms. That is all not to mention, importing Rinex and several
> different
> > binary formats.
> >
> > John Galvin
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: teqc-bounces at ls.unavco.org
> >>[mailto:teqc-bounces at ls.unavco.org] On Behalf Of Lou Estey
> >>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 6:45 AM
> >>To: teqc support
> >>Subject: Re: [teqc] GeoGenius
> >>
> >>
> >>hi Sam,
> >>
> >>Are the Terrasat .OBS files at http://www.gps-survey.com
> >>in GeoTracer format?
> >>
> >>--lou
> >>
> >>
> >>>Lou,
> >>>
> >>>Recently, Herbert gave me a GeoTracer output format
> >>
> >>description. This
> >>
> >>>might help.
> >>>
> >>>Sam
> >>>
> >>>At 03:51 PM 9/1/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi Lou,
> >>>>GeoGenius is a software developed by Dr. Herbert Landau,
> >>
> >>his company
> >>
> >>>>Terrasat ist located in Germany:
> >>>>
> >>>>Trimble Terrasat GmbH
> >>>>+49 8102 74330
> >>>>Haringstr. 19
> >>>>85635 Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn (nearby Munich)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>"Lou Estey" schrieb:
> >>>>
> >>>>>hi Andrew,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I was under the impression that you knew everything!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Ha! Hardly!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Seems to be what is logged by Spectra Precision Terrasat
> >>>>>>software--not receiver specific. Terrasat is a division of
> >>>>>>Spectra Precision and developed VRS. Trimble bought Spectra
> >>>>>>Precision. The software lives on...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>If you're really curi ous, try:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>http://www.gps-survey.com --> File Download -->
> >>
> >>Observations -->
> >>
> >>>>>>etc
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>This site used to have raw Ashtech, but now it's Ashtech in
> >>>>>>Terrasat clothing. Not a huge deal, as there is rinex, but the
> >>>>>>rinex is pretty chopped up.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>The first hour (I guess) for 31 Aug:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 lou dmg 3780 Sep 1 07:01 WCM1244A.04a
> >>>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 lou dmg 24214 Sep 1 07:02 WCM1244A.04n
> >>>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 lou dmg 409900 Sep 1 07:03 WCM1244A.OBS
> >>>>>[1020] file W*
> >>>>>WCM1244A.04a: ascii text
> >>>>>WCM1244A.04n: ascii text
> >>>>>WCM1244A.OBS: data
> >>>>>
> >>>>>WCM1244A.04n is obviously a pretty normal RINEX nav file.
> >>>>>WCM1244A.04a appears to be some sort of stat matrix for
> >>
> >>the GPS SVs
> >>
> >>>>>(PRN 1-31), and WCM1244A.OBS must be the observations. The first
> >>>>>few lines of an octal dump are interesting since there is some
> >>>>>ASCII:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>[1025] od -c W*.OBS | more
> >>>>>0000000 t e r r a S a t 260 001 001 0
> >>
> >>A S H T
> >>
> >>>>>0000020 E C H Z - X I I 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
> >>>>>0000040 U N K N O W N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> >>>>>0000060 0 0 0 0 6 J 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 0
> >>>>>
> >>>>>So, given your intro, it's verified this is "terraSat"
> >>
> >>software and
> >>
> >>>>>dat a from an Ashtech Z-12. But as to what is being
> >>
> >>bundled up and
> >>
> >>>>>how, I
> >>>>
> >>>>have
> >>>>
> >>>>>no idea. (For grins I tried a teqc metadata extraction
> >>
> >>using `-ash
> >>
> >>>>>s` and `-ash r` and got nothing.)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I did some Googling and found that GeoGenius refers to a software
> >>>>
> >>>>package
> >>>>
> >>>>>of Spectra Precision -- "the ultimate GPS processing toolset" one
> >>>>>site called it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>So what we have here is some software package (Terrasat?
> >>
> >>GeoGenius?)
> >>
> >>>>>which is part of Spectra Precision, now owned by Trimble, which
> >>>>>slurps up data from any receiver (e.g. Ashtec h Z-12) and
> >>
> >>appears to
> >>
> >>>>>spit out the data into some other format, right?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Anybody have any insights?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--lou
> >>>>>
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