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Johnston, G. | Dawson, J. | Twilley, B. | Titov, O. | Hu, G.
Abstract
The national geodetic program in Australia is undertaken by the National Geospatial Reference System (NGRS) Section within Geoscience Australia. The NGRS is a continually evolving system of infrastructure implemented through the existing geodetic techniques such as Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The NGRS serves the broader community by providing an accurate foundation for positioning, and consequently all spatial data, against which every position in Australia is measured and can be legally traced. In Australia, the sparsity of geodetic infrastructure has limited the developments of geodetic applications. For instance, the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) was based on observations (1992 - 1994) from a sparse network of Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) called the Australian Fiducial Network (AFN). Since that time the demand for higher accuracies has resulted in GDA94 no longer adequately serving user demand. The adoption of a fully dynamic datum will ensure that Australians can use positioning technology to its fullest capability, whereas at present when using GDA94 they are limited to the accuracy that was achievable in 1994 when GDA94 was created. Consequently, national infrastructure development programs, such as AuScope, have been implemented to improve the geodetic accuracies by contributing to the next generation of the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS). This presentation reviews the national geodetic activities in Australia, especially the AuScope program, a recent enhancement to the Australian geodetic infrastructure.
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