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SF-3050 User Guide – Rev A
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expressed in angular measurement from the plane
the equator to a line from the center of the earth to
the point of interest. Often abbreviated as Lat.
LED acronym for Light Emitting Diode.
LEMO a type of data or power connector.
LES Land Earth
of
Station the point on the earth’s
measurement from the
and the point of interest.
uth
80°.
RINEX file format. Where YY
s
. A meteorological file contains atmospheric
stem that provides a
surface where data is up linked to a satellite.
logging interval the frequency at which positions
generated by the receiver are logged to data files.
lon see longitude.
longitude (long) the east/west component of the
coordinate of a point on the surface of the earth;
expressed as an angular
plane that passes through the earth’s axis of rotation
and the 0° meridian and the plane that passes
through the axis of rotation
Often abbreviated as Long.
Mean Sea Level (MSL) a vertical surface that
represents sea level.
meridian one of the lines joining the north and so
poles at right angles to the equator, designated by
degrees of longitude, from 0° at Greenwich to 1
meteorological (.YYm) files one of the three file
types that make up the
indicates the last two digits of the year the data wa
collected
information.
MSAS (MTSAT Satellite-based Augmentation
System) a Japanese satellite sy
set of corrections for the GPS satellites, which are
valid for the Japanese region. They incorporate
satellite orbit and clock corrections.
MSL see Mean Sea Level.