RINEX-SATELLITE-POSITION

The modules are created to parsing the RINEX format V2 files and calculating positions of satellites which data are described in the RINEX files.

Positions presented in ECEF coordinate system.

How to use (example)

from RSP.parse_rinex import read_rinex
from RSP.satpos import calculate_satpos


sat_data = read_rinex(filename)
for key, rinex_info in sat_data.items():
    pos = calculate_satpos(rinex_info)

As result of the read_rinex function you can see a dictionary with processed data of the file specified as argument of the function.

Below you can see one of the records:

{'14': {'PRN': '14', 'EPOCH': {'YEAR': '17', 'MONTH': '12', 'DAY': '4', 'HOUR': '12', 'MINUTE': '0', 'SECOND': '0.0'}, 'SV_clock_bias': -8.9911278337e-05, 'SV_clock_drift': -7.9580786405e-13, 'SV_clock_drift_rate': 0.0, 'IODE': 90.0, 'Crs': -18.0, 'Delta_n': 4.5944770927e-09, 'M0': -1.5157133401, 'Cuc': -9.5367431641e-07, 'e_Eccentricity': 0.0092511395924, 'Cus': 9.760260582e-06, 'sqrt_A': 5153.7131844, 'Toe': 129600.0, 'Cic': 2.2724270821e-07, 'OMEGA': 2.5507638894, 'Cis': 1.1548399925e-07, 'i0': 0.96156005357, 'Crc': 193.0625, 'omega': -1.9530666137, 'OMEGA_DOT': -7.8846141401e-09, 'IDOT': -8.7146487144e-10, 'Codes_L2_channel': 0.0, 'GPS_week': 1978.0, 'L2_P': 0.0, 'SV_accuracy': 2.4, 'SV_health': 0.0, 'TGD': -9.7788870335e-09, 'IODC': 90.0, 'TTM': 122418.0, 'Fit_interval': 0.0}}

After this, need to process the received data to get satellites positions described in the RINEX file. For this task we can use calculate_satpos function.

The function return tuple with a position of the satellite (x, y, z)

Return example:

 (-3666055.9598023687, -14502006.7903851, 21551445.60757155)

Or we can use the calculate_positions function to process all records which we can get from the read_rinex function.

from RSP.parse_rinex import read_rinex
from RSP.satpos import calculate_positions


sat_data = read_rinex(filename)
sat_pos = calculate_positions(sat_data)

Examplethe output of the code is:

{'14': {'x': -3666055.9598023687, 'y': -14502006.7903851, 'z': 21551445.60757155}, '17': {'x': 17072083.067698468, 'y': 4702360.387043671, 'z': 14688820.05491982}}

Where key of the dictionary is a PRN of a satellite.

The RINEX nav data, I took from the UNAVCO ftp resource

link -> ftp://data-out.unavco.org/pub/rinex/nav/