RINEX

RINEX (Receiver Independent EXchange) parser and formatter.
The RINEX format is fully open source and is specified to answer the requirements of navigation and much more.

To contribute to either of our project or join our community, you way

• open an Issue on Github.com
• follow our Discussions on Github.com
• join our Discord channel

Advantages 🚀

• Fast
• Open sources: read and access all the code!
• All modern GNSS constellations, codes and signals
  • Surveying with GPS, Galileo, BeiDou and QZSS
• Time scales: GPST, QZSST, BDT, GST, UTC, TAI
• Efficient seamless compression and decompression
• RINEX V4 full support, including
  • new Ionospheric coorections
  • new Time offset corrections
  • precise Earth Orientation updates
• Navigation supported in the following constellations
  • GPS
  • Galileo
  • BeiDou
  • QZSS
• Most RINEX formats supported (see following table)
• High Precision Clock RINEX products (for PPP)
• DORIS (special RINEX)
• Many pre-processing algorithms including Filter Designer
• Several file operations: merging, splitting, time binning (batch)

Warnings ⚠️

• Navigation is currently not feasible with Glonass, SBAS and IRNSS
• File production might lack some features, mostly because we're currently focused on data processing

Citation and referencing

If you need to reference this work, please use the following model:

RTK-rs Team (2025), RINEX: analysis and processing (MPLv2), https://github.com/rtk-rs

Formats & revisions

The parser supports RINEX V4.0, that includes RINEX V4 Navigation files.
We support the latest revisions for both IONEX and Clock RINEX.
We support the latest (rev D) SP3 format.

RINEX formats & applications

Contributions

Contributions are welcomed, do not hesitate to open new issues and submit Pull Requests through Github.

If you want to take part in active developments, check out our contribution guidelines and hints to navigate this library quicker.