GROOPS: An open-source software package for GNSS processing and gravity field recovery
- 1Graz University of Technology, Institute of Geodesy, Theoretical Geodesy and Satellite Geodesy, Graz, Austria
- 2HafenCity University Hamburg, Überseeallee 16, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
- 3Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
- 4KNAPP AG - Logistics, Günter Knapp-Straße 5-7, 8075 Hart bei Graz, Austria.
The Gravity Recovery Object Oriented Programming System (GROOPS) is a software package written in C++ that enables the user to perform core geodetic tasks. The software features gravity field recovery from satellite and terrestrial data, the determination of low-earth-orbiting satellite orbits from global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements, and the computation of GNSS constellations and ground station networks. For an easy and intuitive setup of complex workflows, GROOPS contains a graphical user interface to create and edit configuration files. The source code of GROOPS is released under the GPL v3 license and is available on GitHub (https://github.com/groops-devs/groops) together with documentation, a cookbook with guided examples, and installation instructions for different platforms. In this contribution we give a software overview and present results of different applications and data sets computed with GROOPS.
How to cite: Kvas, A., Behzadpour, S., Eicker, A., Ellmer, M., Koch, B., Krauss, S., Pock, C., Rieser, D., Strasser, S., Suesser-Rechberger, B., Zehentner, N., and Mayer-Guerr, T.: GROOPS: An open-source software package for GNSS processing and gravity field recovery, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-10574, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10574, 2021.
