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Is there a reason that choosing Trimble Centerpoint from "processing services" only uses GPS and GLONASS satellites while Centerpoint RTX post processing website, trimblertx.com, also uses Galileo and Beidou?

And it seems that the latter isn't using Beidou right now, only the other 3 constellations.

Hi Robert,

I don't know specifics about Trimble RTX post-processing configuration within TBC's processing services. Maybe someone else can answer, otherwise, I'll find out and get back to you.

Regarding your second question about the use of BeiDou, Trimble RTX post-processing (and real-time corrections) attempt to utilize all "good" constellations and satellites available. The omission of satellites could be due to their health or quality of observations. Please also note that we are currently not correcting geostationary satellites, nor BeiDou-3 signals.

A static file I submitted to RTX post process from April 2018 in April 2018 used 2 BeiDou satellites (I resubmitted that same file today and it still uses both BeiDou satellites), but a file from last week that tracked 7 BeiDou did not use any BeiDou satellites.

Robert, can you please send the 2 files to our Customer Care team at am_corrections@trimble.com? Please provide the information that you provided here and they can investigate why BeiDou satellites were not used.

The processing will be (should be) consistent over time, we generate the correction information in real-time.

Hi Robert,

I have confirmed the behavior you describe when using the processing services link from TBC. The devlopment team are looking into possible causes with the aim to update the service.

Regards

Chay