Introduction

The Bernese GNSS Software, Version 5.2, continues in the tradition of its predecessors as a high performance, high accuracy, and highly flexible reference GPS/GLONASS (GNSS) post-processing package. Some of the key characteristics of the Bernese GNSS Software are:

• State-of-the-art modeling
• Detailed control over all relevant processing options
• Powerful tools for automatization (Bernese Processing Engine, BPE)
• Adherence to up-to-date, internationally adopted standards
• Great flexibility stemming from a highly modular design

Features and Highlights

• Available on Unix/Linux, Mac and Windows platforms
• User-friendly GUI with a built-in HTML-based help system
• Multi-session parallel processing for reprocessing activities
• Ready-to-use BPE examples for different applications:
  • PPP (basic and advanced versions)
  • RINEX-to-SINEX (double-difference network processing)
  • Clock determination (zero-difference network processing)
  • LEO precise orbit determination based on GPS-data
  • SLR validation of GNSS or LEO orbits
  All examples are designed for combined GPS/GLONASS processing.
  Some of them are prepared for an hourly processing scheme.
• Program for automated coordinate time series analysis (FODITS)
• Ambiguity resolution for GPS and GLONASS
• Flexible parameter handling on normal equation level
• Modern troposphere models (e.g., VMF1, GMF/GPT)
• Ionosphere modelling including higher order ionosphere corrections
• IGS and IERS 2010 conventions compliance
• Combination of different receiver and antenna types
• Galileo processing capability

Typical applications

• Rapid processing of small-size single and dual frequency surveys
• Automatic processing of permanent networks
• Any type of post-processing from near-real time to reprocessing years of GNSS data
• Processing of data from a large number of receivers
• Combined processing of GPS and GLONASS observations
• Analysis of real kinematic receivers (even on airplanes)
• Ionosphere and troposphere monitoring
• Clock estimation and time transfer
• Orbit determination for GNSS and Low Earth orbiting satellites together with related parameters (e.g., Earth orientation parameters)
• SLR orbit validation

Typical users

• Scientists for research and education
• Survey agencies responsible for high-accuracy GNSS surveys (e.g., first order networks)
• Agencies responsible to maintain arrays of permanent GNSS receivers
• Commercial users with complex applications demanding high accuracy, reliability, and high productivity