See More of NMEA data

The data captured by the GPS receiver is NMEA data. Now we will try to see more familiar with NMEA data. NMEA (National Marine Electronics Association) standard was developed specifically for the industry as an inter-face of a variety of marine equipment introduced since 1983. The standard is awarded to marine equipment that sends information to a computer or other device. Examples of equipment issued is the GPS NMEA data.

NMEA-0183 contains information relating to the geography as about time, longitude, latitude, altitude, speed and many more. To display the information more understandable by users NMEA-0183 data needs to be further processed.

 
NMEA-0183 standard uses a simple ASCII format, each line defines the contents of each type of message that can be sorted out. Five of the first character after the $ sign is called address field. The first two characters in the address referred Talker-ID. After Talker-ID followed behind the 3 characters that describes the type of sentence. While each data separated by a comma, if there are empty fields will not fill in anything between two commas and terminated by a Carriage Return + Line Feed (CR + LF). NMEA-0183 has a variety of sentence types, one of which is the RMC ( Recommended Minimum Navigation Information). Examples of types of RMC NMEA data is as follows:





Name
Sample
Unit
Information
Message ID $GPRMC

RMC protokol header
UTC Position 065102

hhmmss.ss
Status A

A=data valid or V=data tidak
valid
Latitude 0745.6301

ddmm.mmmm
N/S Indicator S

N=north or S=south
Longitude 11024.5308

dddmm.mmmm
E/W Indicator E



Speed Over Ground 000.0
knots


Course Over Ground 066.2
degrees
E=east or W=west
Date 030306

ddmmyy
Magnetic Variation E
degrees
E=east or W=west
Checksum *65



CR LF



End of message termination
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