Heuristic Weighting and Data Conditioning in the National Geodetic Survey Rapid Static GPS Software

Abstract

NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has developed the Rapid Static GPS software for use as the major processing engine in the OPUS-RS utility (online positioning user service—rapid static) (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/OPUS-RS.html). The software was written specifically to support the computation of static positions from GPS tracking sessions as short as