Overview of Geodetic Refrence Frame and Related Activities in Antartica

• 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

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.