GNSS High-Precision Positioning Post-

processing Software

Caravel PP is a GNSS high-precision positioning post-processing software, which

provides various modes of processing including static positioning and dynamic
differential positioning. Caravel PP adopts the open interface design, and is
seamlessly compatible with GPS, GLONASS, Compass (BD2) and Galileo system,
and can instantly provide the centimeter level precision positioning information and
cm/sec level precision velocity information of the carrier. With the global advanced
proprietary single-epoch ambiguity resolution algorithm, as well as several
sophisticated core technologies, Caravel PP successfully avoids the common
initialization problem and has been proven to be preeminent and robust in various
application environments.

High-Precision
Caravel PP is based on the single frequency and dual frequency C/A code and P
code, as well as the carrier phase and Doppler shift observations. Also, Caravel PP
allows users to process the data of Galileo and can be automatically upgraded to
support the modernized GPS data.

The accuracy of high-precision dynamic differential positioning is up to centimeter

level, and the accuracy of velocity measurement is up to cm/sec level. The
accuracy of baseline in dynamic differential positioning with moving base station is
up to several centimeters. Now, while the accuracy of conventional single point
positioning is more then 10 meters, the accuracy of Caravel PP precise single point
dynamic positioning can reach 20~30 cm level, the accuracy of velocity
measurement can reach 1 dm/sec level, and the accuracy of Caravel PP precise
single point static positioning can reach centimeter level.

User-Friendly Graphic Interface

Users can perform the operations of zoom in, zoom out, pan and distance
measurement, as well as the attribute and graphic bi-direction query operation in
the position result viewer. Caravel PP provides the epoch based skpplot displaying
functionality, which can figure out the DOP of satellite observation in real-time.

Multi-Format Data Import and Export

Caravel PP can directly read the raw data of various formats from brand name
receivers without conversion. Especially for the data with different formats to be
processed together, the system can import them at one time, which brings much
convenience to users in practice. Users can customize the format of the result file
according to the requirement. The system allows users to export data of various
contents to a TXT or a DXF file with the unit up to 72 kinds.

Modular Design
Caravel PP can be customized easily accordingly to the requirements of users.
What’s more, the internal interfaces can also be opened to users and LIB or DLL
products will be provided, which enables developers or engineers to embed the
positioning related functionalities into their own applications.

Main Functionalities
◆ Single/Dual frequency single-epoch ambiguity resolution. Caravel PP combines
several current most advanced single-epoch ambiguity resolution methods. This
enables the system to resolve the single/dual frequency ambiguity with high
reliability in just several seconds and avoid the common initialization problems,
different from the conventional OTF methods. For the dual frequency data, the
success ratio is even higher. The single-epoch ambiguity resolution can process the
observations of short time segments effectively which is significant for practical
engineering applications especially for the applications in tough conditions.
◆ High-precision differential positioning and velocity measurement
◆ Precise single point positioning and velocity measurement
◆ Mobile-to-Mobile differential positioning. Caravel PP can figure out the baseline
information when both the base station and the rover are moving.
◆ User assisted processing. For the advanced users and complicated application,
Caravel PP offers users intervening functionality. Users can eliminate the poor
observations by hand to improve the accuracy of positioning.
◆ Multi-sample-rate processing. The system can process data with different
sampling rates from base stations and rovers. The raw data from the base station
will be automatically interpolated or extracted to implement the differential
processing. In practice, the data could be saved with lower sampling rate in the
base station due to storage limitation of the base station receiver.
◆ Graphic view and analysis. Including position, velocity, positioning error,
residual error, etc.
◆ Conversion. Including file conversion, coordinates conversion, angle conversion
and time conversion.