-BNC allows to compare the contents of two files carrying GNSS orbit and clock data. Files have to be provided in SP3 format. They basically contain a list of records over a certain period of time in constant intervals. Each record presents a time tag, the X,Y,Z position of the satellite's Center of Mass at that time and the corresponding satellite clock observation. Both SP3 files may contain some records for different epochs. However, BNC only compares records for identical epochs. It does not carry out orbit interpolations. It may also be that a specific GNSS system or a specific satellite is only supported by one of the SP3 files. -
--To compare satellite clocks provided by the two files BNC first converts coordinate differences dX,dY,dZ into along track, out-of-plane and radial compoments. It then corrects the clock differences by the radial component. RMS values of clock differences are calculated after introducing an offset per epoch for all satellites plus an offset per satellite for all epochs. +BNC allows to compare the contents of two files containing GNSS orbit and clock data in SP3 format. Such SP3 ASCII file basically contains a list of records over a certain period of time. Each record carries a time tag, the X,Y,Z position of the satellite's Center of Mass at that time and the corresponding satellite clock value. Both SP3 files may contain some records for different epochs. If so BNC only compares records for identical epochs. BNC accepts that a specific GNSS system or a specific satellite is only available in one of the SP3 files. Note that BNC does not carry out orbit interpolations when comparing SP3 files. +
++To compare satellite clocks provided by the two files BNC first converts coordinate differences dX,dY,dZ into along track, out-of-plane and radial compoments. It then corrects the clock differences for the radial components of the coordinate differences. RMS values of clock differences are finally calculated after introducing an offset 'per epoch for all satellites' plus an offset 'per satellite for all epochs'.
3.7.1 Input SP3 Files - optional
-Specify the path for two SP3 files separated by a comma. -
- -3.7.2 Logfile - mandatory if 'Input SP3 Files' is set
-Specify a logfile to save results of the SP3 file comparison. -
+Specify the full path of two SP3 files separated by a comma. + + +3.7.2 Exclude Satellites - optional if 'Input SP3 Files' is set
+You may want to exclude one or more satellites in your SP3 files from the comparison. Or you may like to exclude all satellites of a specific GNSS system from the comparison. The following are example strings to be entered for excluding satellites from the comparison. +
+Default is an empty option field, meaning that no satellite will be excluded from the comparison. +
+ +3.7.3 Logfile - mandatory if 'Input SP3 Files' is set
+Specify a logfile name to save results of the SP3 file comparison. +
++Below you find an example for a SP3 Comparsion logfile. In its firt part it uses the following abbreviations: +
+| 'MJD' | Modified Julian Date |
| 'PRN' | System specification and satellite PRN |
| 'radial' | Radial component of orbit coordinate difference |
| 'along' | Along track component of orbit coordinate difference |
| 'out' | Out-of-plane component of orbit coordinate difference |
| 'clk' | Clock difference |
| 'clkRed' | Clock difference reduced by radial component of orbit coordinate difference |
| 'iPRN' | BNC internal sequence number |
+The second part following string 'RMS[m]' provides a summary of the comparison using the following abbreviations: +
+| 'PRN' | System specification and satellite PRN |
| 'radial' | RMS of radial component of orbit coordinate differences |
| 'along' | RMS of along track component of orbit coordinate differences |
| 'out' | RMS of out-of-plane component of orbit coordinate differences |
| 'nOrb' | Number of epochs used in in orbit comparision |
| 'clk' | RMS of clock differences |
| 'clkRed' | RMS of clock differences after reduction of radial orbit differences |
| 'nClk' | Number of epochs use in clock comparisons |
| 'Offset' | Clock offsets |
+ +! SP3 File 1: esr18283.sp3 +! SP3 File 2: rt218283.sp3 +! +! MJD PRN radial along out clk clkRed iPRN +! ---------------------------------------------------------------- +57043.000000 G01 -0.0001 -0.0318 -0.0354 0.0266 0.0267 1 +57043.000000 G02 -0.0062 -0.0198 0.0111 0.0082 0.0143 2 +57043.000000 G03 0.0052 0.0060 0.0032 0.0386 0.0334 3 +57043.000000 G04 -0.0049 -0.0193 -0.0071 -0.1696 -0.1648 4 +57043.000000 G05 0.0027 0.0154 0.0275 0.0345 0.0318 5 +57043.000000 G06 0.0247 -0.0398 -0.0111 0.0483 0.0236 6 +57043.000000 G07 -0.0052 0.2854 -0.0975 -0.0940 -0.0888 7 +57043.000000 G08 -0.0247 0.0937 -0.0184 -0.1563 -0.1316 8 +57043.000000 G09 0.0152 0.0583 0.0086 -0.0144 -0.0296 9 +... +... +... +! +! RMS[m] +! +! MJD PRN radial along out nOrb clk clkRed nClk Offset +! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +! G01 0.0151 0.0377 0.0196 96 0.0157 0.0154 96 0.0152 +! G02 0.0083 0.0278 0.0228 96 0.0097 0.0124 96 -0.0626 +! G03 0.0105 0.0311 0.0307 96 0.0352 0.0309 96 0.0898 +! G04 0.0113 0.0334 0.0154 94 0.0725 0.0707 94 -0.5087 +! G05 0.0103 0.0319 0.0299 96 0.0417 0.0403 96 0.1185 +! G06 0.0182 0.0509 0.0302 96 0.0218 0.0166 96 0.0040 +! G07 0.0337 0.1632 0.0463 96 0.0483 0.0435 96 0.3031 +! G08 0.0228 0.0741 0.0321 88 0.0616 0.0561 88 -0.2232 +... +... +... +! R20 0.0637 0.2115 0.1131 96 0.1580 0.1345 96 0.7371 +! R21 0.0475 0.1657 0.0880 96 0.1123 0.0840 96 -0.4133 +! R22 0.0125 0.1249 0.0646 96 0.0414 0.0444 96 -0.7375 +! R23 0.0435 0.1503 0.0573 96 0.0987 0.1099 96 0.6620 +! R24 0.0278 0.2026 0.1186 96 0.1446 0.1303 96 -1.1470 +! +! Total 0.0262 0.0938 0.0492 5268 0.0620 0.0561 5268 +