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Johnston, G.M. | Morgan, L.
Abstract
Australia's National Geospatial Reference System (NGRS) is a continually evolving system of infrastructure, data, software and knowledge. The NGRS serves the broader community by providing an accurate foundation for positioning, and consequently all spatial data. The NGRS is administered by the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) and maintained by its Federal and State jurisdictions. Increasingly, the role of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in positioning has required the globalisation of national coordinate systems. In the early 1990's ICSM endorsed the adoption of the Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA94) which was aligned to the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) with a stated uncertainty of 30mm horizontally and 50mm vertically. Since that time crustal deformation and the demand for higher accuracies has resulted in GDA94 no longer adequately serving user requirements. ITRF has continued to evolve in accuracy and distribution to the extent that it now requires very accurate modelling of linear and non-linear crustal deformation. Even the Australia plate, which has long been considered to be rigid, is now considered to be deforming at levels detectable by modern geodesy. Consequently, infrastructure development programs such as AuScope have been implemented to ensure that crustal deformation can be better measured. The Auscope program also aims to improve the accuracy of the ITRF by contributing to the next generation of the Global Geodetic Observing System in our region. This approach will ensure that the ITRF continues to evolve and that Australia's NGRS is integrally connected to it with equivalent accuracies. Ultimately this will remove the need for National Reference Systems, with a globally homogenous and stable reference system (e.g., ITRF) being far more beneficial to society. This paper reviews Australia's contribution to GGOS and how this impacts on positioning in Australia.
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