Since 1990 the European xed station geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) network has been observing on a regular basis in order to determine crustal motion in Europe. Usually the analyses of geodetic VLBI data are set up in two diierent ways: a) to produce station coordinates for each observation epoch from independent parameter adjustments and b) to compute station coordinates at ...

[1] Variations in fluid loads such as the oceans and the atmosphere deform the surface of the Earth. The accuracy of station coordinates, in particular, heights, that can be estimated depends on how well one can separate these surface deformations from the associated translational motion between the center of mass of the solid Earth and the total Earth (CM). We applied simulated atmospheric pre...

A common problem faced by most countries is the estimation of precise transformation parameters between their national geodetic datum, and the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) global datum, used by the Global Positioning System (GPS). There can be considerable difference in positions of the local ellipsoidal datum and the global datum, sometimes up to several hundred meters. So a country like...

An alignment system based on Frequency Scanning Interferometry has been developed to monitor shape changes of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker. Movements of the detector modules will be monitored in quasi real time by combining precise distance measurements between nodes of a geodetic grid attached to the support structure. The final geodetic grid will consist of eight hundred lines of sight in ...

Abstract. Rigorous equations in compact symbolic matrix notation are introduced to transform coordinates and velocities between ITRF frames and modern GPS-based geocentric geodetic datums. The theory is general but after neglecting higher than second-order terms it is shown that the equations revert to the formulation currently applied in most major continental datums. We discuss several exampl...

In this paper, we study both concepts of geodetic dominatingand edge geodetic dominating sets and derive some tight upper bounds onthe edge geodetic and the edge geodetic domination numbers. We also obtainattainable upper bounds on the maximum number of elements in a partitionof a vertex set of a connected graph into geodetic sets, edge geodetic sets,geodetic domin...

A new method for dynamic measurement of deflections of the vertical (DOV) is proposed in this paper. The integration of an inertial navigation system (INS) and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is constructed to measure the body's attitude with respect to the astronomical coordinates. Simultaneously, the attitude with respect to the geodetic coordinates is initially measured by a star s...