Positions and orientations for the Queensland corner reflector array, Australia: Report on geodetic surveys conducted in May and June 2018

The Queensland corner reflector array is increasingly being used as a globally unique calibration and validation infrastructure for orbiting Synthetic Aperture Radar sensors. In May and June 2018, Geoscience Australia undertook field survey work at all 40 corner reflector sites to compute a more accurate determination of the position of the corner reflector apex point. This Geoscience Australia Record describes the design and procedure of the field surveys, and the data processing undertaken to arrive at new positions and associated uncertainties for each corner reflector apex point. The positions we report here supersede those that were previously published by Garthwaite et al. (2015a). We also report here the orientation of each corner reflector (at the time of survey) calculated from the new survey observations. We find that the corner reflector orientations (i.e. azimuth and elevation of the corner reflector boresight) are within 2 degrees of the values used during post-installation alignment in 2014.

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Date (Publication)
2020-11
Date (Revision)
2020-11-04T06:18:22
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Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/144217

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Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2020.034

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Fuhrmann, T.
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Batchelor, J.
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McCall, T.
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Garthwaite, M.C.
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RECORD 2020/034

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GA Record describing the results of a geodetic survey and analysis to derive accurate coordinates for the Queensland corner reflector array

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Place, Space and Communities Division

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Hall, L.S.

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  • TECHNOLOGY

  • Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing

  • EARTH SCIENCES

  • Geodesy

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2018-11-01T00:00:00
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Download the Record (pdf) [3.8 MB]

Download the Record (pdf) [3.8 MB]

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Download the QLD corner reflector positions (txt) [6 KB]

Download the QLD corner reflector positions (txt) [6 KB]

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Download the QLD corner reflector positions (xlsx) [13 KB]

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Download the QLD corner reflector positions metadata (txt) [2 KB]

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Australian Government Security Classification System

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2018-11-01T00:00:00
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Hall, L.S.

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2019-04-08T01:55:29
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2019-04-08T01:55:29

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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

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Version 2.0, September 2018

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EARTH SCIENCES Geodesy Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing TECHNOLOGY

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