Abstract
For Precise Agriculture purposes, several steps of a maize crop-system were recorded by the use of a GPS receiver with EGNOS and RTK capabilities. The field is about 35 km far from two GNSS CORS, one from RENEP, operated by IGS, and the other from SERVIR, operated by IGEoE. Both networks disseminate real-time GNSS data streams over the Internet using the NTRIP protocol. The GNSS data streams from RENEP reference stations (including validated station coordinates) provide the user with a real-time access to the ETRS89 and, those same streams from IGEoE, a military institution, are in ITRS, allowing large scale scientific applications. The validation of the EGNOS and the RTK solutions, obtained in the two TRS systems, was achieved by the results from post-processed measurements. RTK solutions, when compared to the post-processed values in the same TRS, show sub-decimeter accuracy what is enough for many of the Precision Agriculture studies. However, the two RTK solutions have a translation with a magnitude of the order of 0.5 m that can be explained by the independence of the ETRS89 on the continental drift. Indeed, at the zone where the field is located, while the ETRFyy Cartesian coordinates have velocities less than 1 mm/year, the ITRFyy Cartesian coordinates have velocities greater than 1 cm/year, what give rise to a point position variation with a magnitude of 2.5 cm/year.
In order to correlate the tractor velocity, during a pre-emergence herbicide application, to the terrain slope, the field orthometric heights were obtained by the use of GRS80 ondulations, on a 1.5′ × 1.5′grid, in the local Portuguese geoid model GeodPT08. The global precision of this model is estimated in 4 cm, which is within the error for the real time solutions obtained.
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Abbreviations
- CORS:
-
Continuously Operating Reference Station
- DGPS:
-
Differential GPS
- DORIS:
-
Détermination d’Orbite et Radiopositionnement Intégrés par Satellite
- EGNOS:
-
European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
- EPN EUREF:
-
Permanent Network
- ETRF:
-
European Terrestrial Reference Frame
- ETRS89:
-
European Terrestrial System coincident with ITRS at the epoch 1989.0
- GBAS:
-
Ground-Based Augmentation System
- GNSS:
-
Global Navigation Satellite System
- GPS:
-
Global Positioning System
- GRS80:
-
Geodetic Reference System 1980
- IERS:
-
International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
- IGEoE:
-
Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- IGS:
-
International GNSS Service
- ITRS:
-
InternationalTerrestrialReferenceSystem
- ITRF:
-
InternationalTerrestrialReferenceFrame
- IGP:
-
Instituto Geográfico Português
- LLR:
-
Lunar Laser Ranging
- NTRIP:
-
Network Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol
- RENEP:
-
REde Nacional de Estações Permanentes (National CORS network)
- RTCM:
-
Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services
- RTK:
-
Real Time Kinematic
- SERVIR:
-
Sistema de Estações de Referência VIRtuais (GNSS CORS operatingundertheconceptof VRS)
- SBAS:
-
Satellite-Based Augmentation System
- SLR:
-
Satellite Laser Ranging
- TRF:
-
Terrestrial Reference Frame
- TRS:
-
Terrestrial Reference System
- VLBI:
-
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
- VRS:
-
Virtual Reference Station
- WAAS:
-
Wide Area Augmentation System
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Geo-Space Sciences Research Centre, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, financially supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Thanks are also due to Mr. P. Veloso for helping with fieldwork at “Qta de Crujes”.
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Osório, I., Cunha, M. (2013). The Role of the TRS in Precision Agriculture: DGPS with EGNOS and RTK Positioning Using Data from NTRIP Streams. In: Altamimi, Z., Collilieux, X. (eds) Reference Frames for Applications in Geosciences. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32998-2_40
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