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NMEA Output Description
The output protocol supports NMEA-0183 standard. The implemented messages include GGA, GLL, GSA, GSV, VTG,
RMC, ZDA and GNS messages. The NMEA message output has the following sentence structure:
$aaccc,c–c*hh<CR><LF>
The detail of the sentence structure is explained in Table 1.
Table 1: The NMEA sentence structure
Address field. “aa” is the talker identifier. “ccc” identifies the sentence type.
Ending of sentence. (carriage return, line feed)
Table 2: Overview of SkyTraq receiver’s NMEA messages
Time, position, and fix related data of the receiver.
Position, time and fix status.
Used to represent the ID’s of satellites which are used for position fix. When GPS satellites are used for
position fix, $GNGSA sentence is output with system ID 1. When GLONASS satellites are used for
position fix, $GNGSA sentence is output with system ID 2. When Galileo satellites are used for position
fix, $GNGSA sentence is output with system ID 3. When BDS satellites are used for position fix,
$GNGSA sentence is output with system ID 4. When NAVIC satellites are used for position fix, $GNGSA
sentence is output with system ID 6.
$GPGSV
$GLGSV
$GAGSV
$GBGSV
$GIGSV
Satellite information about elevation, azimuth and CNR, $GPGSV is used for GPS satellites, $GLGSV is
used for GLONASS satellites, $GAGSV is used for GALILEO satellites, while $GBGSV is used for BDS
satellites, while $GIGSV is used for NAVIC satellites
Time, date, position, course and speed data.
Course and speed relative to the ground.
UTC, day, month and year and time zone.