FocusPOD

End-to-end solution for Precise Orbit Determination (POD) and Geodesy

Overview

Proprietary solution for Precise Orbit Determination (POD) and Geodesy

FocusPOD is powered by GMV MAORI ®, a new GMV Flight Dynamics and Geodesy library, written in C++ and Python.

  • It provides Precise Orbit Determination (POD) tools to deliver the most accurate solutions.
  • It supports simulation, processing, quality control, and analysis, making it in an end-to-end tool capable of supporting design, testing, and operations.

FocusPOD is part of GMV’s FocusSuite family of products.

Features

Capabilities

FocusPOD provides high-precision, high-performance orbit and clock determination of  LEO satellites, using GNSS data.

  • It implements state-of-the-art orbit and observation modeling, to achieve the highest accuracies.
  • Its high-performance design makes it possible to obtain near-real-time solutions in a matter of minutes.
  • Its flexible design allows to adapt to the needs of each customer (ad-hoc vs. as-a-service processor, one vs. multiple satellites, etc.)
LEO GNSS POD
LEO GNSS POD

FocusPOD allows the quality of POD products to be assessed using a variety of strategies, including:

  • The generation of combined orbital solutions for reference.
  • Time-series comparisons.
  • GNSS / SLR residual analysis.
  • Geographical error plotting.
  • Spectral error analysis.
Quality_control_FocusPOD

FocusPOD processes SLR data for:

  • Quality control of orbital products through SLR residual analysis.
  • SLR range bias estimation.
  • POD using SLR data, both with and without GNSS data.
SLR processing

FocusPOD enables the assessment of GNSS receiver and antenna performance, including:

  • Tracking analysis: sky-plots, histograms, and time series.
  • Signal strength.
  • Dilution of precision (DOP).
  • GNSS ultra stable frequency.
  • Estimation of antenna phase center variation (PCV).
GNSS Sensor Performance

FocusPOD can simulate orbits, clock biases, satellite´s attitudes, and GNSS observations to determine the expected performance of a future mission, making it a realistic, end-to-end analysis tool.

simulation

FocusPOD currently supports applications in the following areas:

  • Satellite Altimetry

  • (Interferometric-) Synthetic Aperture Radar

  • Radio Occultation

  • Navigation

  • Geodesy

Clients


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