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Data centre support for the IGS-RT PP. W. Söhne, H. Habrich, G. Weber Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy , Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Outline. Introduction IGS-RT PP Data and product file centre File types under consideration Technical aspects Data volume Up- and downloading
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Data centre support for the IGS-RT PP W. Söhne, H. Habrich, G. Weber Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Outline • Introduction • IGS-RT PP • Data and product file centre • File types under consideration • Technical aspects • Data volume • Up- and downloading • Completeness • Limitations • Policy aspects • Upload policy • Conclusions & open questions
Introduction • Storing of highrate files nothing new for IGS • At CDDIS back to 2001, doy121 • Initiative from the LEO needs • At IGN • Others • Term “highrate” is a relative one • Usually means 1 Hz sampling rate • But higher sampling rates in use depending on the application • Currently ~110 stations at CDDIS • Clear statement from IGS concerning the needs of long-term archive still missing
IGS-RT PP (1) • One activity of the IGS-RT PP: Data and product file centre • File types under consideration • Navigational data (broadcast ephemeris) • Observational data • highrate RINEX files • hourly and daily RINEX files • Derived files (products) • Orbits or orbit corrections • Clocks or clock corrections • Troposphere & ionosphere parameters
IGS-RT PP (2) • Why generation of highrate files? • Currently, considerable number of users are “feeding” near real-time applications • For future scientific analyses • What is “near real-time”? • Typically hourly applications, with 20-30 minutes computation time • two times per hour computation possible • Why 15 minutes files? • Reduction of file size compared to an hourly highrate file • “Convention”
IGS-RT PP (3) • Is that interval small enough? Are there other intervals of interest, e.g. 5 minutes files? • Advantages • Better distribution of uploading over time • Other intervals can easily be created/derived • File naming convention fits • Disadvantages • Interval size not known in IGS • Number of files growing
Technical aspects: data volume • Data volume of highrate observational files • Example BUTE115A45.08O: 1 Hz 15 minutes GPS+GLONASS RINEX file, # obs. types 8, 20 SV in view: 2.4 Mb • Hatanaka+compress: 170 Kb • 5.7 Gb per station and year for the compressed files • >> 500 Gb per year • Selection of IGS stations for high-rate storing? • Data volume of product files • Clocks: 1 Hz, 1 hour: 2.5 Mb, compressed 170 Kb5.7 Gb per solution and year • …
Technical aspects: up- and downloading • Data upload of observational files • Example 250 stations, 24 files per day (hourly): 6000 files uploaded * 100 Kb 0.6 Gb per day • Example 110 stations, 96 files per day (highrate): 10560 files uploaded * 170 Kb 1.7 Gb per day • Critical aspects are • Is the data centre able to handle all incoming files within, e.g., 5 minutes after the full hour?If not spreading of upload over a certain time span?! • Is the data centre able to handle the parallel download requests in peak periods?
Technical aspects: completeness (1) • “Completeness” covers the aspects • Number of observation types • Number of epochs • Number of SVs per epoch • Ratio observed / predicted number of observations • Completeness can be affected by • Outages of single stations data streams • Outages of the broadcasting system • Handling of unhealthy SVs • Limitation of supported observation types
Technical aspects: limitations (1) • “Limitations” cover the following aspects • Resolution of • Phase • Code • Support of • GPS L2C, L5 • GLONASS • Galileo • SBAS
Technical aspects: completeness (2) • Different levels of comparison of original and accumulated files possible • Character by character • Difficult due to roll-over phase values • Completeness • Epochs missing? • SVs missing? • Parallel analysis • Differences between the results
Technical aspects: completeness (3) Hourly file BUTE115A.08O (TEQC) Highrate file BUTE115A00.08O (BNC)
Technical aspects: limitations (2) ALME: file from TEQC vs. file from BNC (RTCM 2.3) after RNXSMT (BSW5.0)
Technical aspects: limitations (3) WTZR: file from TEQC vs. file from BNC (RTCM 3.0) after RNXSMT (BSW5.0)
0 2 0 1 6 0 1 2 1 56 0 1 35 2 100,0% 100,0% 100,0% 1 0 0 58 2 99,9 -100,0% 99,9 -100,0% 99,9 -100,0% 4 8 99,8 - 99,9% 99,8 - 99,9% 99,8 - 99,9% 21 99,7 - 99,8% 99,7 - 99,8% 99,7 - 99,8% 99,6 - 99,7% 99,6 - 99,7% 99,6 - 99,7% 99,5 - 99,6% 99,5 - 99,6% 99,5 - 99,6% 0 99,0 - 99,5% 99,0 - 99,5% 99,0 - 99,5% 90,0 - 99,0% 90,0 - 99,0% 90,0 - 99,0% 1 50,0 - 90,0% 50,0 - 90,0% 50,0 - 90,0% 168 0 579 14 < 50,0% < 50,0% < 50,0% 0 5 Technical aspects: completeness (4) Completeness of 711 hourly high-rate RINEX files from RTCMv3 streams coming in via NTRIP/TCP Completeness of 233 hourly high-rate RINEX files from RTCMv2 streams coming in via NTRIP/TCP Completeness of 24 hourly high-rate RINEX files from RTIGS streams coming in via udpRelay
Streaming interrupted Missing SVs G06, G21, G26, G30 Longer sections w/o GLONASS Technical aspects: completeness (5)
Policy aspects (1) „Traditional“ situation transferring hourly files, daily files, ephemeris files Station A Data centre 1 User a Station B User b Mirroring Station C Data centre 2 User c Mirroring Data centre 3 Station N User m file creation at the station
transferring files transferring streams Policy aspects (2) Possible situation using real-time data streams for RINEX file creation Broadcaster 1 Station A User a Station B or Station C User b Data centre 1 Station N file creation possible at the data centre, at the users site, at a third party
Conclusions & open questions (1) • Derivation of highrate RINEX files from real-time streams suitable tool • Current interval for highrate files 15 minutes – is that small enough? • Recommendation #1: Storing of 1 Hz 15 minutes files, at least for the long-term archive • Derivation of daily files from streams instead of ftp transfer, at least for new or proposed stations? • RT-IGS PP CfP found five candidates (BKG, CDDIS, GA, KASI, Univ. of Padova)
Conclusions & open questions (2) • Limitations acceptable? If yes, how to point the users to these limitations effectively? • Derivation of RINEX files from real-time streams possible for everyone – needs some regulation or clarification: Who is allowed to upload files derived from real-time data streams? • Recommendation #2: highrate file creation and upload to the GDC in one hand, ideally at the broadcaster’s side