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<div><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Dear IGS Colleagues:</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The International GNSS Service (IGS) and the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services - Special Committee 104 (RTCM - SC104) and the jointly formed
RINEX Working Group (RWG) have updated the RINEX documentation to meet the needs of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems community. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The main features of RINEX Version 3.02 are:<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">· Support for all current GNSS Constellations (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Quasi Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) and BeiDou) and Space Based Augmentation Systems
(SBAS)<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">· All phase observations must be aligned to a defined reference signal.<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">· New mandatory GLONASS code-phase correction header record, specifying the correction applied to align the two observation types. </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">· GLONASS Slot to Frequency number header record now mandatory.<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">· New RINEX file naming convention.<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">· Editorial changes and corrections as indicated in the revision history<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The RINEX Working Group acknowledges the valuable support and feedback received for the QZSS constellation from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
and for the BeiDou constellation from Mr. LI Donghang, Beijing, China.<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The RINEX Version 3.02 document is available at the following addresses:<font face="Times New Roman" color="black"> </font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">IGS : <a href="http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/components/formats.html"><u>http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/components/formats.html</u></a><font face="Times New Roman" color="black">
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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">RTCM : <a href="https://ssl29.pair.com/dmarkle/puborder.php?show=15"><u>https://ssl29.pair.com/dmarkle/puborder.php?show=15</u></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Best Regards,</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Ken MacLeod </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><font size="2" color="blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;">IGS/RTCM RINEX Working Group Chairman,<br>
Natural Resources Canada / Ressources naturelles Canada <br>
Earth Sciences Sector / Secteur des Sciences de la Terre <br>
Geodetic Survey Division / Division des levés géodésiques <br>
615 Booth Street, Rm 464 / 615 rue Booth Pièce 466 <br>
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada <br>
K1A0E9 <br>
Email / courriel : ken.macleod@nrcan.gc.ca <br>
Phone / Téléphone : 613-943-8092 <br>
Fax / Télécopieur: 613-995-3215 </span></font></div>
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