Overview of Geodetic Refrence Frame and Related Activities in Antartica

Significative effort has been done within the Antarctic geodetic community to establish a reference system at continental scale. GIANT (Geodetic Infrastructure for ANTarctica) is being promoted within SCAR in order to unite researchers from different countries in an effort to produce a unique homoge...

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Main Author: CAPRA, Alessandro
Other Authors: Capra, Alessandro
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Editore Università di Siena. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Luogo pubbl. Siena 2006
Subjects:
Geodesy Reference system Antarctica SCAR GIANT
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
antartic*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11380/450341
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Summary:Significative effort has been done within the Antarctic geodetic community to establish a reference system at continental scale. GIANT (Geodetic Infrastructure for ANTarctica) is being promoted within SCAR in order to unite researchers from different countries in an effort to produce a unique homogeneous set of geodetic observations. The SCAR GPS epoch campaigns project developed a GPS network of measurements. Geodetic observations collected continuously or during episodic campaigns are integrated with global observations in order to determine station coordinates in the International Terrestrial Reference Frame, ITRF. A short summary of some of the latest geodetic activities for Antarctic reference system establishment are described.

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