AUSPOS - Online GPS Processing Service

Welcome to AUSPOS

Please give our free global GPS processing service a try. Your feedback is welcome, e-mail geodesy@ga.gov.au.

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What is the Online GPS Processing Service (AUSPOS)?

• AUSPOS provides users with the facility to submit dual frequency geodetic quality GPS RINEX data observed in a 'static' mode, to our GPS processing system and receive rapid turn-around Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA) and International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) coordinates.
• It is a FREE service.
• This service takes advantage of both The IGS Stations Network and the IGS product range, and works with data collected anywhere on Earth. Find out more about the International GPS Service (IGS).
• Further information

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How does it work?

• AUSPOS Step by Step User-Guide
• AUSPOS Frequently Asked Questions
• The AUSPOS System Description
• Summary - AUSPOS System Description
• Complete - AUSPOS System Description [PDF_1.5Mb]
• A sample AUSPOS GPS processing report
• Summary - AUSPOS GPS processing report sample
• Complete - AUSPOS GPS processing report sample [PDF_107k]
• A sample GPS RINEX file [96k]

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System information

• Development Plan and Software Bugs
• User Profiles

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Further information

Download Product Profile [PDF_580k]

Submit 24 hours of GPS data as a RINEX file to AUSPOS’s Online GPS Processing Service, and within 15 minutes you will receive geodetic coordinates accurate to two centimetres, for any location in the world.

The Australian Government's agency, Geoscience Australia, offers a leading-edge service that automatically computes accurate geodetic coordinates to international standard from GPS data files submitted over the Internet.

Geoscience Australia Geodesy staff
working in the field

As a surveyor, you get highly accurate relative positions using just one GPS receiver. The Australian Regional GPS Network provides the precise geodetic framework.

Results within 15 minutes for one day of data for a single site. Multiple site solutions may take an hour.

Centimetre level accuracy, depending upon the observation span and quality of data supplied.

The Australian Regional GPS Network provides accurate coordinates supplied for any location in the world, determined within the Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA) or the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF).

This is a free service by Government to support the takeup of GDA.

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