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The Power of Geodetic Data: Accessing GGOS Portal for Research and Analysis

The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) portal is a centralized access point for geodetic data. It provides access to a wide range of data related to Earth’s gravity field, geodetic

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Taiwan and Indonesia Signed Pact on Cooperation in Geodesy and Geomatics

According to recent news reported by the Taiwan News, Taiwan and Indonesia have signed a pact on Dec. 20 to foster cooperation in geodesy and geomatics, the scientific fields concerned with

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New Open-source Software Enhances Satellite Geodesy Capability

Scientists from Geoscience Australia have released new software that will improve the ability to process big remotely-sensed satellite datasets. The new “PyRate” software being presented this week at the European

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NASA Awards Very Long Baseline Interferometry Support Services

GREENBELT, Md., March 30, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA has awarded the follow-on contract for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Support Services to NVI, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland. This is a

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Australia’s Coordinates out by More Than 1.5 m

The Australian continent tectonic plate is moving 7 cm a year (and colliding with the Pacific Plate, which is heading west 11 cm a year) and experts at Geoscience Australia

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Errors can be Reduced in VRS

Using the concept of the virtual reference stations, certain systematic errors can be reduced considerably: 1. Ionosphere One of the main sources of errors is the Ionosphere . The electrons

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Challenges and Benefits of VRS

The main purpose of a VRS station is to reduce the baseline distance between the rover and the reference station in order to efficiently remove spatially correlated errors using differential

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How VRS Work?

The general concept of network-based processing of VRS working is shown in Figure 1. In Short: The data from the Reference Stations are transmitted to the processing and control center

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What is Virtual Reference Station?

A virtual reference station is an imaginary, unoccupied reference station which is only a few meters from the RTK user. For this position, observation data are created from the data