The Trimble GPS receiver provides position data for scientific devices.

Summary

Trimble





Contacts



Components

The GPS receiver is installed on the bridge deck. The antenna is installed on the observation deck.

Position

Trimble

Data logging, storage and archiving

Logged parameters

Central geographical ship's position and time standard

The GPS receiver Trimble is running as time server for several clients on board. The GPS position of the Trimble receiver is centered to the corresponding antenna.

Rawdata storage on board 

Data storage in DShip system.

Dship

Unevaluated and uncorrected measurement data.
|| Device name | DGPS Trimble || 
|| Parameters| Age of Differential GPS data; Altitude \[m\]; Course over ground \[deg\]; Day; DGPS_Trimble.GPGGA.Sentence; DGPS_Trimble.GPVTG.Sentence; DGPS_Trimble.GPZDA.Sentence; Differential reference station ID; EW; Geoidal separation \[m\]; GPS Quality indicator; Horizontal dilution; Latitude; Local zone hours; Local zone minutes; Longitude; Month; NS; Number of satellites; Speed over ground \[kn\]; UTC of position; UTC Raw; Year ||

Data archiving on land

After the cruise the DShip data set can be extracted from https://dms.awi.de.
|| File format(s) | *.dat || 
|| Calibration certificates | NO ||

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