What is QOCA?
QOCA (Quasi-Observation Combination Analysis) is a software package that combines various loosely constrained geodetic site coordinate and velocity solutions (as quasi observations) to obtain crustal deformation information. QOCA is free for any non-commercial user. To respect the support of JPL and QOCA developer, please give the appropriate credit in your research work.QOCA is used as the post-processing software package by many geodetic data analysis groups. Currently it can combine space-geodetic quasi-observations (GPS, VLBI, SLR, ... etc.) and terrestrial geodetic survey quasi-observations (EDM, triangulation, leveling, ... etc.). It has the potential to combine SAR data and gravity, seismicity, and ground motion data.
QOCA was designed and developed at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. California Institute of Technology holds all the copyrights and Caltech licenses the users.
What is cool?
- QOCA accepts various formats from GIPSY, GAMIT, FONDA, GLOBK, BERNESE programs. It also accepts SINEX and Blue Book formats.
- QOCA solves for site positions, velocities, network parameters, and the coseismic and postseismic deformation parameters simultaneously. There is no need for other procedures. By-products, such as strain rates and gamma rates, are also obtained simultaneously.
- QOCA has the ability to detect outliers hidden in the quasi-observations.
- QOCA can directly deal with the noisy time series through robust analysis.
What is hot?
- QOCA runs fast.
- Space-saving.
- Flexible.
- User-friendly. Novices can run QOCA in basic mode within 4 hours.
- Online registration, online manual, online help board (Q/A) make the information exchange efficiently.
What is weak?
- Due to manpower shortage (see History), some parts of the software are incomplete.
- The author of the QOCA has no time to write a detailed manual.
- There is no funding to support full service for the QOCA users.
What is new?
Dr. Da Kuang at JPL has taken over the responsibility of the QOCA software registration process.
If you have any question about the application for the software, please send an e-mail to dakuang@jpl.nasa.gov
We generate QOCA forum for users to submit their questions, suggestions and discussions.
Please go to https://sites.google.com/site/qocaforum/home to read the forum. Or just click the "User forum" tag on the left side of this page.
Created by Danan Dong and maintained by Da Kuang for
Geodynamics and Space Geodesy Group
email: dakuang@jpl.nasa.gov
08/02/98
since 03/01/2003
