Ground-Truth Data

A real-time kinematic (RTK) capable GNSS receiver with a GNSS base station is used as the ground-truth source for the dataset.

SimpleRTK2B board is used as the GNSS receiver that has an u-blox ZED-F9P multi-band receiver module with multiple constellations support. The RTK module inside the ZED-F9P has the capability of providing the receivers location at an accuracy of 1cm in open environments.

The real-time NMEA stream for the ZED-F9P was provided by Reach RS2 base station. RS2 communicates with the ZED-F9P using a ultra high frequncy (UHF) LoRa radio. The Reach RS2 also capable of providing a post processed kinematics (PPK) solution upto 100km by logging data at 10Hz.

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Ground-Truth Sources

  • Raw ROS Topics

Message Type

Topic Name

Rate [Hz]

Description

sensor msgs/NavSatFix

/fix

5

raw RTK-GNSS

nmea msgs/Sentence

/nmea_sentence

5

nmea formatted RTK-GNSS

  • Post processed ROS Topics - Higher accuracy than raw RTK-GNSS Measuremnts

Message Type

Topic Name

Rate [Hz]

Description

sensor msgs/NavSatFix

/fix_ppk

5

PPK GNSS

nav msgs/Odometry

/fix_frl

5

6DOF pose ground-truth