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Testing of the HANSEL testbed at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona campus. The trajectory lines of the football field was followed with a moving GNSS receiver placed on a cart in order to test the accuracy of positioning available, using a reference station to demonstrate precise positioning. Additional GNSS software receiver also placed on the cart were used to test and validate the snapshot processing capabilites of the testbed, where each single small receiver of very limited capacity collects a snapshot of GNSS signals, but the actual signal processing and position fix is carried out by a central processing facility.