Applications of artificial satellites in positioning and navigation can be traced back to as early as the 1960’s, just shortly after the launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957, when the era of satellite geodesy started. Over the past four decades, particularly since the inception of the Global Positioning System (GPS), satellite-based positioning techniques have been playing an increa...

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Yafei Ning 1,2,*, Yunbin Yuan 1, Zhen Huang 3, Yanju Chai 1 and Bingfeng Tan 1,2 1 State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, China; [email protected] (Y.Y.); [email protected] (Y.C.); [email protected] (B.T.) 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China ...

Biography Peter Teunissen is professor of Geodesy and Earth Observation and Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council. Nanthi Nadarajah is postdoc research fellow at the GNSS Research Centre of Curtin University, Perth, while Gabriele Giorgi and Peter Buist are both PhD candidates at the Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning (MGP) section of the Delft University of Technology. Their r...

Zhulin Yu,1 Sidao Ni,2 Shengji Wei,3 Xiangfang Zeng,1 Wenbo Wu1 and Zhiwei Li2 1Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. E-mail: [email protected] 2State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics, CAS Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Wuhan, Hubei, China 3Seismological Laboratory, Division of Geological and Planetary ...

Vertical geodesy is undergoing a revolution because of two factors. First, new precise three-dimensional position measurement techniques used over very long distances and based on extraterrestrial reference systems provide a new class and precision of geometric data previously unavailable for geophysical investigations. Second, physical models in tectonic theory for large earthquakes predict cr...

The following second definition represents a more up-to-date description of geodesy given by the Committee on Geodesy of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences in 1978. • Establishment and maintenance of national and global three dimensional geodetic networks • Measurement and analyses of geodynamic phenomena (earth rotation, earth tides, crustal movements, etc.) • Determination of the earth's ...