Geodesy for Planet Earth

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Improved Analysis Strategy and Accessibility of the SIRGAS Reference Frame....Pages 3-10
Improved GPS Data Analysis Strategy for Tide Gauge Benchmark Monitoring....Pages 11-18
A Dense Global Velocity Field Based on GNSS Observations: Preliminary Results....Pages 19-26
Enhancement of the EUREF Permanent Network Services and Products....Pages 27-34
Can We Really Promise a mm-Accuracy for the Local Ties on a Geo-VLBI Antenna....Pages 35-42
Recent Improvements in DORIS Data Processing at IGN in View of ITRF2008, the ignwd08 Solution....Pages 43-49
Towards a Combination of Space-Geodetic Measurements....Pages 51-57
Improving Length and Scale Traceability in Local Geodynamical Measurements....Pages 59-66
How to Fix the Geodetic Datum for Reference Frames in Geosciences Applications?....Pages 67-76
Transforming ITRF Coordinates to National ETRS89 Realization in the Presence of Postglacial Rebound: An Evaluation of the Nordic Geodynamical Model in Finland....Pages 77-86
Global Terrestrial Reference Frame Realization Within the GGOS-D Project....Pages 87-93
Comparison of Regional and Global GNSS Positions, Velocities and Residual Time Series....Pages 95-103
GPS Metrology: Bringing Traceable Scale to a Local Crustal Deformation GPS Network....Pages 105-112
Impact of Albedo Radiation on GPS Satellites....Pages 113-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
On the Determination of Sea Level Changes by Combining Altimetric, Tide Gauge, Satellite Gravity and Atmospheric Observations....Pages 123-130
Arctic Sea Ice Thickness in the Winters of 2004 and 2007 from Coincident Satellite and Submarine Measurements....Pages 131-138
The Impact of Attitude Control on GRACE Accelerometry and Orbits....Pages 139-146
Using Atmospheric Uncertainties for GRACE De-aliasing: First Results....Pages 147-152
Challenges in Deriving Trends from GRACE....Pages 153-160
AIUB-GRACE02S: Status of GRACE Gravity Field Recovery Using the Celestial Mechanics Approach....Pages 161-169
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Comparison of Regional and Global GRACE Gravity Field Models at High Latitudes....Pages 171-177
A New Approach for Pure Kinematical and Reduced-Kinematical Determination of LEO Orbit Based on GNSS Observations....Pages 179-186
Pure Geometrical Precise Orbit Determination of a LEO Based on GNSS Carrier Phase Observations....Pages 187-193
On a Combined Use of Satellite and Terrestrial Data in Refined Studies on Earth Gravity Field: Boundary Problems and a Target Function....Pages 195-204
Moho Estimation Using GOCE Data: A Numerical Simulation....Pages 205-214
CHAMP, GRACE, GOCE Instruments and Beyond....Pages 215-221
The Future of the Satellite Gravimetry After the GOCE Mission....Pages 223-230
Future Satellite Gravity Field Missions: Feasibility Study of Post-Newtonian Method....Pages 231-238
Local and Regional Comparisons of Gravity and Magnetic Fields....Pages 239-246
Combination of Local Gravimetry and Magnetic Data to Locate Subsurface Anomalies Using a Matched Filter....Pages 247-254
On the Use of UAVs for Strapdown Airborne Gravimetry....Pages 255-261
Updating the Precise Gravity Network at the BIPM....Pages 263-271
Precise Gravimetric Surveys with the Field Absolute Gravimeter A-10....Pages 273-279
Reconstruction of a Torsion Balance and the Results of the Test Measurements....Pages 281-289
The Superconducting Gravimeter as a Field Instrument Applied to Hydrology....Pages 291-295
Local Hydrological Information in Gravity Time Series: Application and Reduction....Pages 297-304
Signals of Mass Redistribution at the South African Gravimeter Site SAGOS....Pages 305-313
Gravity System and Network in Estonia....Pages 315-322
Evaluation of EGM2008 Within Geopotential Space from GPS, Tide Gauges and Altimetry....Pages 323-331
Fixed Gravimetric BVP for the Vertical Datum Problem....Pages 333-341
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Realization of the World Height System in New Zealand: Preliminary Study....Pages 343-349
Comparisons of Global Geopotential Models with Terrestrial Gravity Field Data Over Santiago del Estero Region, NW: Argentine....Pages 351-356
Intermap’s Airborne Inertial Gravimetry System....Pages 357-363
Galathea-3: A Global Marine Gravity Profile....Pages 365-371
Dependency of Resolvable Gravitational Spatial Resolution on Space-Borne Observation Techniques....Pages 373-379
A Comparison of Different Integral-Equation-Based Approaches for Local Gravity Field Modelling: Case Study for the Canadian Rocky Mountains....Pages 381-388
Global Topographically Corrected and Topo-Density Contrast Stripped Gravity Field from EGM08 and CRUST 2.0....Pages 389-399
Local Gravity Field Modelling in Rugged Terrain Using Spherical Radial Basis Functions: Case Study for the Canadian Rocky Mountains....Pages 401-409
A Sensitivity Analysis in Spectral Gravity Field Modeling Using Systems Theory....Pages 411-418
Investigation of Topographic Reductions for Marine Geoid Determination in the Presence of an Ultra-High Resolution Reference Geopotential Model....Pages 419-426
Effects of Hypothetical Complex Mass-Density Distributions on Geoidal Height....Pages 427-433
Evaluation of Gravity and Altimetry Data in Australian Coastal Regions....Pages 435-442
Development and User Testing of a Python Interface to the GRAVSOFT Gravity Field Programs....Pages 443-449
Progress and Prospects of the Antarctic Geoid Project (Commission Project 2.4)....Pages 451-456
Regional Geoid Improvement over the Antarctic Peninsula Utilizing Airborne Gravity Data....Pages 457-464
Auvergne Dataset: Testing Several Geoid Computation Methods....Pages 465-472
In Pursuit of a cm-Accurate Local Geoid Model for Ohio....Pages 473-480
Adjustment of Collocated GPS, Geoid and Orthometric Height Observations in Greece. Geoid or Orthometric Height Improvement?....Pages 481-488
Front Matter....Pages 489-489
Regional Geophysical Excitation Functions of Polar Motion over Land Areas....Pages 491-497
Geophysical Excitation of the Chandler Wobble Revisited....Pages 499-505
Front Matter....Pages 489-489
On the Origin of the Bi-Decadal and the Semi-Secular Oscillations in the Length of the Day....Pages 507-512
Future Improvements in EOP Prediction....Pages 513-520
Determination of Nutation Coefficients from Lunar Laser Ranging....Pages 521-525
A Set of Analytical Formulae to Model Deglaciation-Induced Polar Wander....Pages 527-535
Stabilization of Satellite Derived Gravity Field Coefficients by Earth Orientation Parameters and Excitation Functions....Pages 537-543
The Statistical Characteristics of Altimetric Sea Level Anomaly Time Series....Pages 545-549
Testing Past Sea Level Reconstruction Methodology (1958–2006)....Pages 551-560
Precise Determination of Relative Mean Sea Level Trends at Tide Gauges in the Adriatic....Pages 561-566
Quantile Analysis of Relative Sea-Level at the Hornbæk and Gedser Tide Gauges....Pages 567-571
Assessment of the FES2004 Derived OTL Model in the West of France and Preliminary Results About Impacts of Tropospheric Models....Pages 573-579
Gravimetric Time Series Recording at the Argentine Antarctic Stations Belgrano II and San Martín for the Improvement of Ocean Tide Models....Pages 581-589
Mass-Change Acceleration in Antarctica from GRACE Monthly Gravity Field Solutions....Pages 591-596
Mass Variations in the Siberian Permafrost Region from GRACE....Pages 597-603
Seasonal Variability of Land Water Storage in South America Using GRACE Data....Pages 605-611
Water Storage Changes from GRACE Data in the La Plata Basin....Pages 613-618
Second and Third Order Ionospheric Effects on GNSS Positioning: A Case Study in Brazil....Pages 619-625
Advanced Techniques for Discontinuity Detection in GNSS Coordinate Time-Series. An Italian Case Study....Pages 627-634
Traditional and Alternative Network Adjustment Approach for the TAMDEF GPS in Antarctica....Pages 635-642
Impact of Loading Phenomena on Velocity Field Computation from GPS Campaigns: Application to ResPyr GPS Campaign in the Pyrenees....Pages 643-649
Comparison of the Coordinates Solutions Between the Absolute and the Relative Phase Center Variation Models in the Dense Regional GPS Network in Japan....Pages 651-656
Front Matter....Pages 489-489
The 2009 Horizontal Velocity Field for South America and the Caribbean....Pages 657-664
New Estimates of Present-Day Crustal/Land Motions in the British Isles Based on the BIGF Network....Pages 665-671
GURN (GNSS Upper Rhine Graben Network): Research Goals and First Results of a Transnational Geo-scientific Network....Pages 673-681
Determination of Horizontal and Vertical Movements of the Adriatic Microplate on the Basis of GPS Measurements....Pages 683-688
Determination of Tectonic Movements in the Swiss Alps Using GNSS and Levelling....Pages 689-695
A Compilation of a Preliminary Map of Vertical Deformations in New Zealand from Continuous GPS Data....Pages 697-703
Detection of Vertical Temporal Behaviour of IGS Stations in Canada Using Least Squares Spectral Analysis....Pages 705-710
Front Matter....Pages 711-711
Positioning and Applications for Planet Earth....Pages 713-718
Report of Sub-commission 4.2 “Applications of Geodesy in Engineering”....Pages 719-724
A Fixed-σ Digital Representation of a Random Scalar Field....Pages 725-731
The Impact of Adding SBAS Data on GPS Data Processing in Southeast of Brazil: Preliminary Result....Pages 733-738
First Results of Relative Field Calibration of a GPS Antenna at BCAL/UFPR (Baseline Calibration Station for GNSS Antennas at UFPR/Brazil)....Pages 739-744
Medium-Distance GPS Ambiguity Resolution with Controlled Failure Rate....Pages 745-751
Toward a SIRGAS Service for Mapping the Ionosphere’s Electron Density Distribution....Pages 753-760
Assisted Code Point Positioning at Sub-meter Accuracy Level with Ionospheric Corrections Estimated in a Local GNSS Permanent Network....Pages 761-768
Semi-annual Anomaly and Annual Asymmetry on TOPEX TEC During a Full Solar Cycle....Pages 769-774
Numerical Simulation and Prediction of Atmospheric Aerosol Extinction Using Singular Value Decomposition....Pages 775-780
Impact of Atmospheric Delay Reduction Using KARAT on GPS/PPP Analysis....Pages 781-787
Modelling Tropospheric Zenith Delays Using Regression Models Based on Surface Meteorology Data....Pages 789-794
Calibration of Wet Tropospheric Delays in GPS Observation Using Raman Lidar Measurements....Pages 795-800
Front Matter....Pages 711-711
Generation of Slant Tropospheric Delay Time Series Based on Turbulence Theory....Pages 801-807
Fitting of NWM Ray-Traced Slant Factors to Closed-Form Tropospheric Mapping Functions....Pages 809-815
Estimation of Integrated Water Vapour from GPS Observations Using Local Models in Hungary....Pages 817-823
GNSS Remote Sensing in the Atmosphere, Oceans, Land and Hydrology....Pages 825-831
Mean Sea Surface Model of the Caspian Sea Based on TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 Satellite Altimetry Data....Pages 833-841
Front Matter....Pages 843-843
Combination of the Weekly Solutions Delivered by the SIRGAS Processing Centres for the SIRGAS-CON Reference Frame....Pages 845-851
Report on the SIRGAS-CON Combined Solution, by IBGE Analysis Center....Pages 853-857
Processing Evaluation of SIRGAS-CON Network by IBGE Analysis Center....Pages 859-868
ProGriD: The Transformation Package for the Adoption of SIRGAS2000 in Brazil....Pages 869-875
The New Multi-year Position and Velocity Solution SIR09P01 of the IGS Regional Network Associate Analysis Centre (IGS RNAAC SIR)....Pages 877-883
Analysis of the Crust Displacement in Amazon Basin....Pages 885-891
The Progress of the Geoid Model for South America Under GRACE and EGM2008....Pages 893-899
Combining High Resolution Global Geopotential and Terrain Models to Increase National and Regional Geoid Determinations, Maracaibo Lake and Venezuelan Andes Case Study....Pages 901-907
Evaluation of a Few Interpolation Techniques of Gravity Values in the Border Region of Brazil and Argentina....Pages 909-915
RBMC in Real Time via NTRIP and Its Benefits in RTK and DGPS Surveys....Pages 917-922
Front Matter....Pages 923-923
Bootstrapping with Multi-frequency Mixed Code Carrier Linear Combinations and Partial Integer Decorrelation in the Presence of Biases....Pages 925-933
Real Time Satellite Clocks in Precise Point Positioning....Pages 935-940
Improving the GNSS Attitude Ambiguity Success Rate with the Multivariate Constrained LAMBDA Method....Pages 941-948
An Intelligent Personal Navigator Integrating GNSS, RFID and INS....Pages 949-955
Integration of Image-Based and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms: A Novel Approach to Personal Navigation....Pages 957-965
Front Matter....Pages 923-923
Modernization and New Services of the Brazilian Active Control Network....Pages 967-972
 magicSBAS : A South-American SBAS Experiment with NTRIP Data....Pages 973-984
Front Matter....Pages 985-985
Scientific Rationale and Development of the Global Geodetic Observing System....Pages 987-993
GGOS Bureau for Standards and Conventions: Integrated Standards and Conventions for Geodesy....Pages 995-998
VLBI2010: Next Generation VLBI System for Geodesy and Astrometry....Pages 999-1005
The New Vienna VLBI Software VieVS....Pages 1007-1011
Estimating Horizontal Tropospheric Gradients in DORIS Data Processing: Preliminary Results....Pages 1013-1019
Front Matter....Pages 1021-1021
The BIPM: International References for Earth Sciences....Pages 1023-1027
Development of the GLONASS Ultra-Rapid Orbit Determination at Geodetic Observatory Pecný....Pages 1029-1035
AGrav: An International Database for Absolute Gravity Measurements....Pages 1037-1042
Back Matter....Pages 1043-1046