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    Analysis of the accuracy of different commercial GPS network adjustment software packages

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    Undergraduate Dissertation (1.953Mb)
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    2018
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    Ochen, Ronald Keddy
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    The surveying and geomatics community is currently faced with a wide range of commercial proprietary GPS network adjustment software to choose from. Each of the software package is however unique in some functions, with different data processing algorithms applied. The difference in mathematical models adopted by the software packages influences the adjusted coordinates and therefore leads to differences in final coordinates. Surveyors however continue to use these software without knowing their comparative efficacy hence the need for congruity analysis. This research therefore aims at assessing the accuracy of four commercial GPS network adjustment software packages in the user market namely; Carlson SurveyGNSS 2016, CHC Geomatics Office (CGO) version 1.0.1, GNSS Solutions (3.80.8) and Trimble -Business Center (TBC) version 3.50. Using 6 control stations, the evaluation method involves the comparison of coordinate residuals obtained as deviations of the final (adjusted) coordinates, from the software, from the “known” station coordinates. The station coordinates obtained from the Surveys and Mapping Department, Entebbe, were considered as the ‘known coordinates’ in the residual computation. The average residual values in the Northing, Easting and Orthometric height were below 10 cm in CGO, GNSS Solutions and TBC in both Cases 1 and 2 while SurveyGNSS produced average residual values ranging between 10 cm to 20 cm in the North, East and Height components. Since the adjusted coordinates were compared with their ‘known’ values, the software package that produced the least deviations was considered the most accurate amongst the four software packages. The one that produced the highest deviations was however the least accurate. Further analysis was conducted basing on the mean residual values, 2D and 3D residual errors, Standard Deviations and Root Mean Square Errors (RMSE). The RMSE of 0.043 m in Case 1 confirmed TBC as the most accurate amongst the test software packages while SurveyGNSS produced the highest RMSE of 0.170 m implying that it is the least accurate. CGO however performed slightly better that TBC in Case 2 with RMSE of 0.071 m compared to 0.093 m of TBC. This could be partly attributed to the proprietary CHC N7 GNSS receivers used at the Survnet CORS base stations. A similar research should be conducted to incorporate the effect of varying the proprietary GNSS receivers during observations on the accuracy of the software packages.
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