<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A gentle reminder for the upcoming change tomorrow.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>M.Eng. Markus Bradke</div><div><br class=""></div><div>IGS Infrastructure Committee Coordinator<br class=""><br class="">Section 1.1 Space Geodetic Techniques<br class="">Phone: +49 (0)331/6264-1182<br class=""><a href="mailto:markus.bradke@gfz-potsdam.de" class="">Email: markus.bradke@gfz-potsdam.de</a><br class=""><br class="">Helmholtz Centre Potsdam<br class="">GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences<br class="">Foundation under public law of the federal state of Brandenburg<br class="">Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam</div></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28. Jun 2023, at 14:10, Markus Bradke <<a href="mailto:bradke@gfz-potsdam.de" class="">bradke@gfz-potsdam.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-87c1d00a-7fff-b200-9cef-38b5200cb58d" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear GNSS community,</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">RINEX 4.00 has been approved in the IGS/RTCM RINEX Working Group as the necessary next step for maintaining the suitability of the RINEX format to store GNSS data and measurements. The new format was officially accepted by the IGS Governing Board on Dec 7, 2021.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The IGS Infrastructure Committee carefully considered the impact these changes may have on the users’ end, including:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=""><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Breaking but minor change for many software packages handling observation and meteorological files due to version change.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Breaking change for many software packages for navigation files due to format change.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">As announced in </span><a href="https://lists.igs.org/pipermail/igsmail/2022/008203.html" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">[IGSMAIL-8207] RINEX 4.00 transition and trial period</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">, the Infrastructure Committee implemented a RINEX 4.00 transition phase and subsequently started a trial phase in 2022:</span></p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;" class=""><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">DLR has provided a merged BRDC summary navigation file (BRD00DLR), as of January 2022.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" class=""><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">GFZ and DLR provide station-wise observation, navigation, and meteorological files available at CDDIS and BKG in their respective campaign directories, as of May 2022.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">From </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">July 19, 2023</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> onwards, station-wise RINEX 4.00 data files can be found in the operational archives. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">From this date onwards, only one of the two versions (RINEX 3.xx or RINEX 4.00) is allowed to be uploaded.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Station operators are encouraged to switch to the new format version as soon as possible. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Station operators are required to send a notice to the IGS mailing list (IGSMAIL) before they switch.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the Central Bureau (</span><a href="mailto:cb@igs.org" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">cb@igs.org</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">On behalf of the IGS Infrastructure Committee,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Markus Bradke</span></p></span><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">M.Eng. Markus Bradke</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IGS Infrastructure Committee Coordinator<br class=""><br class="">Section 1.1 Space Geodetic Techniques<br class="">Phone: +49 (0)331/6264-1182<br class=""><a href="mailto:markus.bradke@gfz-potsdam.de" class="">Email: markus.bradke@gfz-potsdam.de</a><br class=""><br class="">Helmholtz Centre Potsdam<br class="">GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences<br class="">Foundation under public law of the federal state of Brandenburg<br class="">Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam</div></div>
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