Exercise 02 DGPS FUGRO v.1.2 Answers
Exercise 02 DGPS FUGRO v.1.2 Answers
Exercise 2 Training
Product: DPS/DARPS products
What is the difference between a GPS and a DGPS position and how will this affect the
DARPS/DPS system?
GNSS: No differential corrections applied, expected accuracy < 15m
DGNSS: Differential corrections applied. Significant increase in position accuracy, expected < 2m
Satellites:
The group of Inmarsat and Spotbeam satellites (ref “GeoSkyII, Fugro SeaSTAR”) and Irridium sat.
The Inmarsat upgrade gave us access to a new high power channel in addition to the usual low power
channel. What kind of antennas do we need for receiving these two channels onboard?
Mention a few of these satellites (Indicate in your answer the High and Low Power channels).
High power: AORE, AORW, IOR... Low power: PORL
Recommend “correction satellites” for use in the North Sea (Indicate with S/I for Spot/Inmarsat):
ESAT, AORE
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Kongsberg Seatex AS
Exercise 2 Training
Product: DPS/DARPS products
There is one Inmarsat satellite having low power radio. Which one is this?
Which satellite is your Demodulator tuned to: Chn A: ESAT, Chn B: AORE (ref “GeoSky”)
What is the frequency used by this satellite? ESAT 1539.9125, AORE: 1539.9725
Alternative satellites may not transmit the best reference station you currently is using
Change manually the frequency to 1531 0000 00 Hz and wait for about 2 min.
Describe what happens on the demodulator?
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Kongsberg Seatex AS
Exercise 2 Training
Product: DPS/DARPS products
The figure below is a print out of the “Reference Station List” from a DARPS/DPS 100.
How many reference stations are received in this system (fig. 1)? 22 stations
How many reference stations are being used in the position calculation? 6 stations
What are the criteria for a station being used or not? Range Limit or Age limit
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In general, which reference stations do you recommend, and why?
The closest gives often the best accuracy. Over range and age the errors will slowly increase.
The DARPS/DPS are set up with Range Limit for reference stations and Age Limit for corrections?
What is the reason for these limits?
The errors are of the same magnitude both within the Range Limit and Age Limit.
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Kongsberg Seatex AS
Exercise 2 Training
Product: DPS/DARPS products
The figure below is a print out of the “Reference Station List” from a DARPS/DPS 200.
When using DARPS/DPS 200 or 232, what’s important regarding reference stations? (ref. fig.2)
GLONASS corrections as these units has GLONASS receiver.
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When using DARPS/DPS 132 or 232 what is important then?
IONO-corrections as these receivers has 2-freq. receivers.
Situation:
Your Demodulator is connected to a Inmarsat disc antenna. Because of shadowing on the Inmarsat
antenna you decide to shift to another Inmarsat satellite on the Inmarsat terminal.
What else do you need to do? Change to the corresponding Satellite on the Demodulator.
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Kongsberg Seatex AS
Exercise 2 Training
Product: DPS/DARPS products
The Differetial corrections are made in land based reference stations. The user segment will apply
these corrections whether we operate onshore or offshore. To have these corrections made available
for the user segment, the signals must be transmitted by use of different type of transmitters and
technology. List some of these transmission links we have on land, at sea and in space.:
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