Customer Diagnostics
Troubleshooting issues in high
precision positioning systems can
be an expensive endeavor. Multipath,
jamming and other factors can cause
similar outcomes as ionosphere
disturbances and therefore it is
important to pinpoint the problem
accurately and rapidly. With the
introduction of Trimble IonoGuard,
an additional traffic light system
has been added to the receiver web
interface. A green, yellow, orange
or red icon indicates the level of
ionosphere disturbance that the RTK
base station is experiencing on each
satellite. The rover receiver shows
this same information using the
received IonoGuard base messages.
All ionospheric data
is logged in the
standard Trimble T04
raw data files which
can help Trimble
support teams further
diagnose issues.
If IonoGuard messages are not being
received from the base, then the circle
symbols are replaced by squares and the
rover's calculation of base ionosphere
activity is indicated.
A history of base ionospheric activity is also
available on the base web interface.
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