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1Manual for rtcm3torinex
2
3The program rtcm3torinex is an real-time converter from NTRIP streamed RTCM3
4data into the RINEX format.
5
6RTCM3 defines a number of message types. Among them are the following:
7
8Message
9Type Contains information about
10--------------------------------------------------------------------------
111001 GPS L1 code and phase
121002 GPS L1 code and phase and ambiguities and carrier to noise ratio
131003 GPS L1 and L1 code and phase
141004 GPS L1 and L2 code and phase and ambiguities and carrier to noise ratio
151005 Station coordinates XZY for antenna reference point
161006 Station coordinates XYZ for antenna reference point and antenna height
171007 Antenna descriptor and ID
181008 Antenna serial number
191009 GLONASS L1 code and phase
201010 GLONASS L1 code and phase and ambiguities and carrier to noise ratio
211011 GLONASS L1 and L1 code and phase
221012 GLONASS L1 and L2 code and phase and ambiguities and carrier to noise ratio
231013 Modified julian date, leep second, configured message types and intervall
241014-1017 Network RTK (MAK) messages
251019 GPS Ephemeris
261020 GLONASS Ephemeris
271045-1046 Galileo Ephemeris
281071-1077 GPS-MSM data
291081-1087 GLONASS-MSM data
301091-1097 Galileo-MSM data
311101-1107 SBAS-MSM data
321111-1117 QZSS-MSM data
331121-1127 BeiDou-MSM data
344088-4095 Proprietary messages (under development)
35
36Note that this version of rtcm3torinex only handles RTCM3 message types 1001,
371002, 1003, 1004, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1012, 1013, 1019, 1020, 1045, 1046,
381071-1077, 1081-1087, 1091-1097, 1101-1107, 1111-1117 and 1121-1127.
39
40The generated RINEX is somewhat limited due to the streaming character of the
41conversion:
42
43 - Header records can only represent data, which is known after receiving the
44 very first epoch. Data rate, position, number of observations and any such
45 additional fields cannot be provided.
46 - The number of observables cannot change during the program runtime. Only
47 the observables, which exist in the first epoch are output. If there
48 are new observables later on, these are ignored.
49 The Option --changeobs removes that limitation, but not many tools can use
50 the resulting files which include header change records.
51 - Only known message types are interpreted. Send me new RTCM3 data files and
52 data support can be improved. See contact address at the end of this document.
53 - If the ambiguity field in the RTCM3 data is not set, the output will be no
54 valid RINEX. All values will be stored modulo 299792.458. A COMMENT line
55 will tell you, when this happens. It would be necessary to approximately
56 calculate the range to fix the ambiguity (needing ephemeris/alamanac and
57 easy positioning algorithm).
58
59Usage: ./rtcm3torinex -s server -u user ...
60 -d --data the requested data set
61 -f --headerfile file for RINEX header information
62 -s --server the server name or address
63 -p --password the login password
64 -r --port the server port number (default 2101)
65 -t --timeout timeout in seconds (default 60)
66 -u --user the user name
67 -E --gpsephemeris output file for GPS ephemeris data
68 -G --glonassephemeris output file for GLONASS ephemeris data
69 -3 --rinex3 output RINEX type 3 data
70 -S --proxyhost proxy name or address
71 -R --proxyport proxy port, optional (default 2101)
72 -n --nmea NMEA string for sending to server
73 -O --changeobs Add observation type change header lines
74 -M --mode mode for data request
75 Valid modes are:
76 1, h, http NTRIP Version 2.0 Caster in TCP/IP mode
77 2, r, rtsp NTRIP Version 2.0 Caster in RTSP/RTP mode
78 3, n, ntrip1 NTRIP Version 1.0 Caster
79 4, a, auto automatic detection (default)
80
81The fields --user and --password are used to specify the access data for the
82NTRIP server. The arguments --server and --port are used to specify the NTRIP
83server itself (defaults to "www.euref-ip.net" port 2101). The Argument --data
84must be used to specify the RTCM3 input data stream. If it is not given, you
85will be shown the source table of the selected NTRIP caster.
86
87Alternatively a single text of the form
88"ntrip:data[/user[:password]][@[server][:port][@proxyhost[:proxyport]]][;nmea]"
89can be used. Everything in brackets is optional.
90
91Additionally the argument --headerfile can be used to provide additional header
92information. The file must contain normal RINEX observation file header lines.
93The given lines overwrite the automatical generated lines. Overwriting the
94lines "# / TYPES OF OBSERV" and "TIME OF FIRST OBS" usually is a bad idea and
95you will get warned if you do so. The line "END OF HEADER" is ignored.
96Unknown lines or COMMENT lines will be appended before the "END OF HEADER".
97
98NOTE: The tool does not check the input lines for validity. So be sure to
99use correct RINEX specifiers as well as correct alignment.
100
101To stop RINEX output send the program a killing signal. Following signal
102sources are supported:
103
104signal number usual source of the signal
105---------------------------------------------------------------------------
106SIGINT 2 pressing CTRL+C in the shell running the tool
107SIGQUIT 3 pressing CTRL-\ or sending QUIT signal
108SIGTERM 15 called kill <num> with the process number of rtcm3torinex
109SIGPIPE 13 the output or input of rtcm3torinex has been closed
110
111The programm will be terminated after the current epoch has been finished.
112You will not get corrupted RINEX files.
113
114When compiling the program with older gcc versions running the `make'
115command, you may receive an informative error message saying
116
117rtcm3torinex.c: In function `signalhandler_alarm':
118rtcm3torinex.c:1240: warning: `noreturn' function does return
119
120This is most likely a compiler problem which only concerns the optimization
121and is thus not critical. New compilers will not show this problem.
122
123Program written by
124
125Dirk Stoecker
126Alberding GmbH
127http://www.alberding.eu/
128
129for
130
131Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
132Richard-Strauss-Allee 11
133D-60598 Frankfurt
134http://igs.bkg.bund.de/index_ntrip.htm
135
136Contact Dirk Stoecker [stoecker@alberding.eu] or [euref-ip@bkg.bund.de]
137with your comments, suggestions, improvements, patches, ...
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