DPOS report

[Mark Wheeler]

Does the DPOS report indicate whether it has used the NGS Rapid or Ultra Rapid data for processing a point? OPUS does, but recently the Ultra Rapid switch to Rapid data now takes 2-3 days or more (in MA) after the collection (versus the old next day after lunch) to process Rapid. DPOS seams to get a solution much earlier, often before the next day after lunch time, and stick with it. Is there any indicators, or could indicators be added to the DPOS report stating whether the solution has incorporated the Rapid data?

Mark

 

[Kelly Bellis]

DPOS only uses broadcast orbits

 

[Jim Frame]

And I believe it always says brdc, as I don't think DPOS uses anything but the broadcast ephemeris.

 

[Kelly Bellis]

And I believe it always says brdc, as I don't think DPOS uses anything but the broadcast ephemeris.

That's correct Jim. A while back I asked Alexey about this. He confirmed this to be the case and that there were no plans to incorporate any other orbital products into DPOS. Part of his reasoning may have been related to automating/ get/ fetching calls to urls which periodically change and stop working. There may have been other reasons, but that's one that I (think) can recall.