Erlang Network GNSSLib, A Plain Vanilla Community Edition GNSS Measurement Engine

The GNSS research institutes and academics have been looking for a stable and workable open source measurement engines and positioning engines for a long time.  Regarding positioning engines, it seems that Tomoji Takasu's open source RTKLIB pretty much is the de facto standard reference and baseline.  At the same time, there are also many positioning engine options, such as GNSS-SDR by CTTC, GNSS-SDRLIB by Prof. Taro Suzuki, GPS Matlab Tools by Prof. Kai Borre, goGPS Matlab by goGPS Project, GPSTk by Space and Geophysics Laboratory of ARL:UT, etc.

As I know and also from my own experience, many students, researchers and developers want measurement engines and positioning engines to be easy to understand and learn and also flexible and easy to modify ... something plain vanilla, as a baseline or reference.   From my side, I guess because I am a wireless and mobile communication system designer, I am more used to using assembly, C, C++, Python for firmware and software development in a Linux environment for real-time, embedded and resource-limited systems.  I used Matlab when I was in college. Now, I will occasionally use Matlab for filter design and GUIs.

So with that said, I like the open source measurement engine contributed by Prof. Taro Suzuki for its simplicity, even though his last release (in 2014) supports only 64-bit Windows.  In order to make it working in a Linux environment, I added some changes, reorganized the source codes structure, included a few submodules.  I think I will continue to improve it ... whenever I have time ... Hope you would enjoy using it.

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