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Abstract
The Australian Regional GPS Network (ARGN) consists of 15 permanent geodetic quality GPS receivers, on geologically stable marks, in Australia and its Territories, with the stations within Australia known as the Australian Fiducial Network (AFN). The AFN provides the fundamental framework for spatial data in Australia, through the GDA94 (see <a href="http://www.icsm.gov.au/gda/">www.icsm.gov.au/gda/</a> for more information on GDA94). The Antarctic sites also provide the fundamental framework for the Australian Antarctic Geodetic Network. The data from these sites is used by Geoscience Australia's Space Geodesy Analysis Centre to compute precise positions and to monitor the Earth's Pole position, the Earth's gravity field, and tectonic motion. The data is automatically contributed to the International GPS Service (IGS) and is available on Geoscience Australia's website for other use (<a href="http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/data_server/">www.ga.gov.au/bin/data_server/</a>) The GPS data is recorded at the ARGN sites at 30 second epochs and is available in Receiver Independent Exchange (Rinex) format. This data is available from Geoscience Australia's WWW within a few hours of the end of the GMT day of observation. Performance statistics and other related information is available.
Product Type
dataset
eCat Id
66008
Contact for the resource
Custodian
Point of contact
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia
Keywords
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- Geodetic DataAUSGeoid98
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Geodesy
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- Published_Internal
Publication Date
2008-06-05T00:00:00
Creation Date
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Status
Purpose
Maintenance Information
asNeeded
Topic Category
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Series Information
Lineage
The ARGN grew from Geoscience Australia's participation in the International GPS Service's 1992 pilot project and was progressively developed as a continuous service from 1994, reaching consistent performance in 1998.
Parent Information
Extents
[-90.0, -9.0, 45.0, 168.0]
Reference System
Spatial Resolution
Service Information
Associations
Source Information
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