Workflow: Process GNSS Baselines

Process baselines to determine the highest quality coordinates for each point in your project.

Following are the basic steps for this workflow. For more detailed instructions, see Process Baselines.

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Steps:

 

Commands:

1.

Import GNSS data into your project as described in Workflow: Import GNSS data.

 

Import

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2.

Before processing baselines, ensure your project is configured correctly in the Baseline Processing section of the Project Settings dialog.

For example, you can specify the frequency, processing interval, and acceptance criteria for GNSS baselines.

 

Project Settings

3.

Optionally, use the Time-Based View to review how occupations and sessions relate to each other, and disable any baselines that should not be processed.

 

Time-Based View

4.

Optionally, use the Plan View to select the baselines you want to process. If you do not select any baselines, all baselines are processed.

 

Plan View

5.

Use the Process Baselines dialog to process the baselines.

To see more information about any specific processed baseline, select it in the Process Baselines dialog and click the Report button.

 

Process Baselines (requires baseline data)

6.

To see the resultant coordinates for any point after saving the processed baselines, select the point in Project Explorer or one of the graphic or spreadsheet views. Then right-click and select Point Derivation Report in the context menu.

 

Project Explorer

7.

If you need to edit a session associated with a processed baselines, select the baseline in the Plan View, right-click, and select Session Editor. After making any edits, be sure to reprocess the baselines.

 

Session Editor (requires baseline be selected)

8.

If necessary, use the the Time-Based View to identify and disable any dependent baselines.

 

Time-Based View

9.

To view additional baseline processing information, select Point Derivation Report and/or Vector List Report inthe Reports menu. Or, select GNSS Loop Closure in the Survey menu.

 

 

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