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GPS Toolkit (GPSTk) 1.0 Released
rmach writes "Based on many years of work performed at ARL:UT, we have release GPSTk under the GNU LGPL. GPSTk is a cross platform library and set of applications that provides both fundamental and advanced GPS processing algorithms to the GPS and open source community. A wide array of functions are provided by the GPSTk library, including: RINEX I/O, ephemeris calculation, P-code generation, atmospheric refraction models, and positioning algorithms. GPSTk applications provided more concrete benefits to the user, including: cycle slip detection and removal, calculation of the Total Electron Content (TEC) of the ionosphere, position residual computation, and RINEX file manipulation. The library is about 41,000 SLOC with a COCOMO estimated cost to develop of about $1.3 million. You can also read more about it in the current issue (September '04) of Linux Journal."
From the gpstk-announce mailing list: From: Ben Harris GPSTk Version 1.0 released; article in Linux Journal 2004-08-09 07:52 It is my pleasure to announce that version 1.0 of the GPSTk has been released to Source Forge. This release was timed to support subscribers of Linux Journal who this weekend received a writeup about the GPS Toolkit in the September issue. This milestone was achieved through the hard work of many individuals, from programmers to analysts to administrators. I believe that their investment has created a solid contribution to the GPS community. By choosing to follow the open source development model with this code, I believe the initial investment will be rewarded many times over. Regards, Ben
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