<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<br><br>As stated in IGSMAIL-8113, the frequency-specific antenna phase centers (APCs) resulted in inconsistencies among the geometry-free biases such as differential code biases (DCBs) and wide-lane (aka Melbourne-Wübbena) biases. All IGS Analysis Centers have been required to apply the antenna phase center offset corrections to those geometry-free combination observables during the transition to ITRF2020. Similarly, users of IGS products will need to adopt this new convention as well to ensure consistency and achieve the best performance in ambiguity resolution.<br><br>As the IGS has decided to transition to ITRF2020 and authorize the igs20.atx at the end of this November, users of IGS products need to be reminded of the following change on the Bias-SINEX format:<div><br><div>A new keyword "APC_MODEL" will be added to the section “BIAS/DESCRIPTION” in the format of "APC_MODEL igs20_WWWW.atx" when APCs are considered for geometry-free biases.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<p><span>Jianghui GENG</span></p><p><span>Professor in GNSS Geodesy</span></p>
<p><span>GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University</span></p>
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