I was wondering if there is a system that will plug a gps/glonass/l1/l2/l5... etc etc antenna in to the back of a tower pc sitting under my desk and easily allow for post process of points. I have been looking at the units and am not liking the prices. Has anyone had a working work around so that I dont spend my childs convent entry fee and a pretty yellow metal box.
I know this is a can of worms but, ................. go
Most manufactures have freeware for downloading their units. Even cheap handhelds can now downloaded to a kmz or other file format for plotting.
Heck, at this point I wan wondering why I can’t get a connection to the base, download a static file and post-process it along with a static file while at the rover. That way you could double tape or total station those really hard shots in one trip.
> I was wondering if there is a system that will plug a gps/glonass/l1/l2/l5... etc etc antenna in to the back of a tower pc sitting under my desk and easily allow for post process of points.
The traditional approach to post-processed positioning entails two systems: a GPS receiver (including antenna), and a baseline processing application (including the computer hardware necessary to run it). The first system records the GPS signals at a given location, while the second system processes the data recorded by the first system along with data simultaneously recorded at one or more other sites to produce vector information between all the sites.
It sounds like you're looking for a Windows software application that will replace everything except for the local antenna subsystem. I'm not aware of any single application that will do that.
There are ways of accomplishing what I think you're after, but they involve stringing together some used hardware and several bits of software. It wouldn't be a button-push process, but it could be pretty manageable if you set it up right. It could even be pretty inexpensive, as long as you don't need dual-frequency solutions. (The price of admission for L1/L2 vector processing is pretty steep.)
How much work are you willing to do to avoid buying a turn-key system?
I am currently using the latest trimble equipment and software. I guess I was thinking of it as more of a science project to see if I could piece together a few things that would turn a tower pc into a receiver and find the hardware to hook up an L1/L2 antenna that we have laying around in the shop. Im probably trying to reinvent the wheel and should just shell out the cash for a NetR9 setup. I have been looking into the NTRIP software, i was just daydreaming of having my very own DIY CORS. Thanks for the reply,
