Welcome

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin (ARL:UT) have partnered to bring you WIPPS, the WGS 84 & ITRF Precise Positioning Service. WIPPS is an online service that implements Precise Point Positioning (PPP) methods to produce very precise absolute position estimates, given several hours of GPS observation data. Results are generated using NGA's post-processed satellite clock and orbit products, yielding a true World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) solution. Users may also elect to receive results generated using the International GNSS Service (IGS) clock and orbit products, yielding a solution in the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF).

Presently, WIPPS is only available to NGA and ARL users who have registered on this site (registration and login links are at the top of this page). Registered users can get started immediately by going right to the submit page. That page is user-friendly, with in-line help explaining each option available. More detailed help is also available on the help page. Resources explaining WIPPS in more detail, as well as the fundamentals of Precise Point Positioning, are presented here.