Automatic system for GPS tropospheric delay estimation, on-line GPS processing user service and analysis of the results

This paper describes automatic system for GPS tropospheric delay estimation developed at the Institute of Geodesy and Geodetic Astronomy of the Warsaw University (WUT) LAC. The system is based on BPE (Bernese Processing Engine) and utilizes UltraRapid orbits and EUREF weekly coordinates. We describe processing strategies used in this application and report various experiences leading to start of NRT tropospheric service. We have made many statistical quality analysis of the resulting solutions. Accurate comparisons with ZTD combined product (EPN and IGS) and radiosounding data has been made. The poster presents also other research areas on the GPS data processing performed especially the Internet based service for an on-line GPS processing of the users data. Finally we present some other ideas of our interest how to use tropospheric delay in meteorology and climatology.