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3. Campaign Setup
Within the Bernese GPS Software, we use the term campaign for a set of data which should
be processed together. An alternative term to “campaign” (also commonly used) might be
“project”. Each campaign has its own directory and subdirectories where all the campaignspecific
data are stored. While processing the campaign, the programs work on these files
and (most of them) use files from the general directory ${X}/GEN (or %X%\GEN in Windows
notation), too. The data files in ${X}/GEN are common to all campaigns (see Section 22.4).
By the way, there is still the possibility to combine the results of various campaigns using
normal equations files or SINEX files – see Chapter 9, but even then all normal equation
files to be combined have to be copied into one campaign.
Before data processing can be started, the campaign has to be defined, the campaign directories
have to be created, the data have to be copied into these directories, and some
basic information about the campaign has to be specified. Since Version 5.0 of Bernese GPS
Software the user has to select the current session to be processed. These preparations are
called “campaign setup” and are the topic of this chapter.
3.1 Create a new Campaign
First, the name of a new campaign including the path to the campaign directories has to
be specified in ”Menu>Campaign>Edit list of campaigns”. Add the name of your new campaign (e.g.,
${P}/MYCAMP) to the campaign list. This syntax (with curly brackets) has to be used on
UNIX as well as on Windows platforms because ${P} is an environment variable internally
handled by the Bernese GPS Software, Version 5.0 (see Section 18.5 for more details).
It is important to remark that the campaign list is a general file accessed by all users
working with the same installation of the software. All available campaigns are visible to
all users. The list of campaigns is contained in the file ${X}/PAN/MENU CMP.INP. If one
user is editing the list using the menu the file is locked for all other users (indicated by
the existence of the file ${X}/PAN/MENU CMP.INP lk). On multiuser systems all users must
have read and write privileges for the list of campaigns file ${X}/PAN/MENU CMP.INP 1 and it
must be allowed to all users to create and remove a file in the ${X}/PAN-directory (namely
${X}/PAN/MENU CMP.INP lk).
If the campaign is located on a disk referred to by another environment variable than
already defined (e.g., ${Q}) UNIX-users have to add the definition of the environment
1 ${X}/PAN/MENU CMP.INP is the only file in the ${X}/PAN-directory where all users need write privileges
because all other input files are located in user-specific directories, default ${U}/PAN.
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