GPS Data Processing and Analysis with GAMIT/GLOBK and track

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (24–25 & 27–29 November 2017)
Workshop group photograph

This workshop was led by Dr (MIT). Dr-Ing. (AAU) assisted with tutoring during individual practice time.

We required participants to complete prerequisite tasks before attending this workshop, including reading through the Introduction to GAMIT/GLOBK (more detailed reference manuals for GAMIT and GLOBK are also provided), installing the software and at least working through the example. Please contact your registered institutional representative for the current username and password to chandler.mit.edu, or if your institution is not licensed to use GAMIT/GLOBK, to download the latest release of GAMIT/GLOBK.

We also provided some introductory lecture material, which we did not present explicitly during this workshop, that is helpful nevertheless for becoming acquainted with command-line systems, installing GAMIT/GLOBK and recommendations for directory structures; reiterating details of the GAMIT/GLOBK example; and preparing raw GNSS data for use with GAMIT/GLOBK:

We highly recommended reading through these lectures before arriving for this workshop.

Final schedule
All times are Eastern Africa Time (UTC+3)
FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2017: Fundamentals of GNSS and GAMIT/GLOBK
09:00–09:10 Welcoming remarks by hosts
09:10–09:30 Introductions by participants
09:30–10:30 Fundamentals of GPS for geodesy [PowerPoint (12 MB)] [PDF (1.5 MB)]
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 Practice and tutoring time
12:00–12:30 Basics of processing workflow for GAMIT/GLOBK [PowerPoint (634 kB)] [PDF (170 kB)]
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Practice and tutoring time
15:00–15:30 GAMIT/GLOBK for GNSS [PowerPoint (23 MB)] [PDF (1.6 MB)]
15:30–16:00 Break
16:00–17:30 Practice and tutoring time
SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2017: Basic processing with GAMIT and GLOBK
09:00–09:30 Questions and discussion time from previous day
09:30–10:15 Batch processing with sh_gamit [PowerPoint (906 kB)] [PDF (450 kB)]
10:15–10:30 Practice and tutoring time
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–11:30 Practice and tutoring time
11:30–12:30 Reference frames [PowerPoint (6.2 MB)] [PDF (3.9 MB)]
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:30 Practice and tutoring time
14:30–15:30 Post-processing with GLOBK [PowerPoint (685 kB)] [PDF (224 kB)]
15:30–16:00 Break
16:00–17:30 Practice and tutoring time
MONDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2017: Generating and analyzing time series
09:00–09:30 Questions and discussion time from previous day
09:30–10:00 Generating time series with glred [PowerPoint (853 kB)] [PDF (268 kB)]
10:00–10:30 Practice and tutoring time
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Practice and tutoring time
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:30 Practice and tutoring time
14:30–15:30 Time series and error analysis with FOGMEx (tsfit/tsview), CATS and Hector [PowerPoint (7.8 MB)] [PDF (3.4 MB)]
15:30–16:00 Break
16:00–17:30 Practice and tutoring time
TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2017: Advanced concepts and velocity solutions
09:00–09:30 Questions and discussion time from previous day
09:30–10:30 Practice and tutoring time
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 Dealing with earthquakes and non-linear motions [PowerPoint (17 MB)] [PDF (17 MB)]
12:00–12:30 Practice and tutoring time
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:30 Practice and tutoring time
14:30–15:00 Generating velocity solutions with globk [PowerPoint (757 kB)] [PDF (233 kB)]
15:00–15:30 Practice and tutoring time
15:30–16:00 Break
16:00–17:30 Practice and tutoring time
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2017: Processing with track
09:00–09:30 Questions and discussion time from previous day
09:30–10:00 Utility programs and scripts [PowerPoint (2.1 MB)] [PDF (2.3 MB)]
10:00–10:30 Practice and tutoring time
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–11:45 Introduction to and basics of processing with track [PowerPoint (854 kB)] [PDF (325 kB)]
11:45–12:30 Practice and tutoring time
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–14:45 Examples using track [PowerPoint (26 MB)] [PDF (23 MB)]
14:45–17:30 Practice and tutoring time [track example command file (9.4 kB)]
17:30 Concluding remarks
18:00 Depart course