<p>On 5 November 2019, Geoscience Australia presented a Targeted Side Event at the GEO Week 2019 Ministerial Summit in Canberra (http://www.earthobservations.org/geoweek19.php?t=home). GEO, the Group on Earth Observations, is a global intergovernmental partnership of 105 Member governments, 127 Participating Organizations and thousands of individuals and businesses that strives to improve the availability, access and use of Earth observations for a more sustainable planet. <p>The theme of the Targeted Side Event was as follows. <p>Strong, resilient and sustainable communities have jobs, homes, clean water, feel safe and are well connected locally, nationally and internationally. Government, business, industry and community decision makers can progress economic, social and cultural development using new, free digital information and mapping tools. Smart, fast and trusted decisions made using digital information and digital mapping can be used for any sized community, remote, rural, city, national. Sustainable development, responsible growth through a reform and transform approach can unlock new resource opportunities and respond to the economic and social challenges faced by many countries. Presented is a new digital mapping decision making tool that integrates resources: minerals, energy and water, within a social, economic and environment frame. <p>Addressing social licence and environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly important to ensuring the future economic development of Earth resources. The challenge for geoscientists is to create tools using data integrated from multiple disciplines to deliver insight into the complex interactions between diverse Earth systems and human society. These tools will enable specialists and non-specialists in communities, government and industry to make informed decisions for a sustainable future.

The Positioning Australia Program is delivering every day. Thousands of users from all around the country connect to our systems to access accurate and reliable data from a national network of continuously operating reference stations. A national capability cannot be achieved alone, it takes collaboration across all levels of government and industry. In this presentation Ryan and Amy will show how open data delivered through Positioning Australia is supporting the inland rail project and delivering better positioning services for farmers in South Australia. There have been many challenges to overcome in delivering this national capability. The speakers will discuss how GA has partnered with industry to facilitate access to land and build infrastructure across the nation during the COVID lockdowns and border closures. Finally, Ryan and Amy will share how we are working to continuously improve our offerings and access to our data and change the positioning landscape in Australia.

<div>FrontierSI has been engaged by Geoscience Australia (GA) to establish a series of case studies showcasing the benefits of Positioning Australia products and services through demonstrations of precise positioning capability. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) was selected as the demonstration partner for this case study, contributing their extensive knowledge of current and future marine technologies and providing a suitably challenging environment for deployment of precise positioning solutions. This project investigates the available options for provision of precise global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) positioning at the AIMS Marine Operations Centre, and explores the suitability, benefits, and challenges of using Positioning Australia products including Ginan for this purpose.&nbsp;</div>

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of Ginan version 3, a suite of open-source Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) software tools developed and maintained by Geoscience Australia in collaboration with industry and academia under the Positioning Australia program. Ginan serves as a precise point positioning (PPP) engine to produce real-time products that support high-precision positioning. Its versatility is demonstrated through its applicability to various geodetic and positioning activities, including computation of daily coordinate solutions, precise satellite orbit determination, computation of satellite clocks and biases, atmospheric modeling, and data quality assurance and quality control. These products effectively mitigate real-time errors associated with GNSS observations and are openly accessible as a centimeter-accurate correction service. The primary objectives of Ginan are: (1) showcase Australia's unique modelling and analytic systems for multi-GNSS real-time processing, delivering precise positioning products to both the Australian and international Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) community; (2) offer expert advice on navigation system performance over Australia; and (3) provide state-of-the-art GNSS analysis center software to universities and research organizations, thus fostering Australia's leadership in geospatial technology development. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of Ginan version 3, highlighting its new features, the current development status, and the strategic roadmap for its continued use as an operational service. We will provide examples of Ginan’s usefulness as a platform for research and innovation including its use as the processing engine for research into atmospheric anomalies from the Tonga volcano eruption through monitoring travelling ionospheric disturbances that could be used as early warning and tsunamigenic predictors for disaster risk and reduction; and observations of the Turkyia earthquake. The release of Ginan version 3 marks a significant advancement in GNSS data processing and positioning capabilities, contributing to the broader scientific community's understanding and utilization of geospatial technology. Abstract to be submitted to/presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023 (AGU23) - https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting

The Positioning Australia program is a $225 million commitment from the Australian Government to provide 10 cm accurate positioning to all Australians. This is a significant improvement from the 5-10 m accuracy you can currently achieve using GPS enabled devices. In anticipation for the growing use and reliance on positioning technology, Geoscience Australia has led the upgrade of Australia's Geospatial Reference System (collection of datums, reference frames, models, infrastructure and standards) to ensure Australian's can maximise the benefits of precise positioning. This talk will explain why the Australian Geospatial Reference System is the foundation for the Positioning Australia program.

<div>FrontierSI has been engaged by Geoscience Australia (GA) to establish a series of case studies showcasing the benefits of Positioning Australia products and services through demonstrations of precise positioning capability. This case study is the third in the series and in a collaboration with The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation&nbsp;(CSIRO) it aims to explore the use of Ginan’s real-time and post-processing capabilities for determining water level height from a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver deployed on a floating pontoon on Googong Dam.</div>

<div>FrontierSI has been engaged by Geoscience Australia (GA) to establish a series of case studies showcasing the benefits of Positioning Australia products and services through demonstrations of precise positioning capability. This case study is the second in the series and in a collaboration with The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) it aims to explore the use of Ginan’s post-processing capabilities for determining receiver altitude and atmospheric parameters from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) observations collected from a high-altitude balloon.</div>

<div>Ginan is a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) analysis centre software that is currently being developed by Geoscience Australia in partnership with industry and academic partners. Ginan is fully open-source software based on the SSR (State Space Representation), PPP (Precise Point Positioning) model and is capable of computing precise positioning products, delivering real-time correction services, as well as operating as a user-driven precise positioning engine.</div><div><br></div><div>Ginan is a modern, multi-threaded C++ application that utilises industry standard high-performance libraries such as Eigen3, and Boost. Software configuration is managed through industry standard YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language) files. Standard IGS (International GNSS Service) file-based products are produced, and intermediate positioning products are managed in the open-source NoSQL MongoDB database and output is through standard Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services-3 (RTCM3), IGS-SSR and Compact SSR message streams. At its core, Ginan is a customised and optimised Kalman filter that is tightly coupled with a data pre-processor and orbit integrator, enabling both real-time processing of industry standard RTCM3 data messages streams and post-processing using IGS positioning products.</div><div><br></div><div>The purpose of Ginan is to provide users with a unique multi-GNSS real-time processing platform capable of delivering precise positioning products to the Australian and international Positioning Navigation and Timing (PNT) community; support expert advice on navigation system performance over Australia; and provide state-of-the-art GNSS analysis centre software to universities and research organisations to enable Australia to lead in the development of geospatial technology. Ginan can be used for many geodetic and positioning activities such as computation of daily coordinate solutions, precise satellite orbit determination, computation of satellite clocks & biases, atmospheric modelling, data QA/QC and more. This paper describes the Kalman filter optimization methodology implemented in Ginan and provides benchmarking comparisons of Ginan against the International GNSS Service combined orbit and clock products. Abstract presented at the 2024 Institute of Navigation (ION) Pacific Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Conference Honolulu, Hawaii

<div>The annual Asia Pacific Regional Geodetic Project (APRGP) GPS campaign is an activity of the Geodetic Reference Frame Working Group (WG) of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Asia and the Pacific (UN-GGIM-AP). This document describes the data analysis of the APRGP GPS campaign undertaken between the 11th and 17nd of September 2022. Campaign GPS data collected at 116 sites in seven countries across the Asia Pacific region were processed using version 5.2 of the Bernese GNSS Software in a regional network together with selected IGS (International GNSS Service) sites. The GPS solution was constrained to the ITRF2014 reference frame by adopting IGS14 coordinates on selected IGS reference sites and using the final IGS earth orientation parameters and satellite ephemerides products. The average of the root mean square repeatability of the station coordinates for the campaign was 2.0 mm, 2.4 mm and 7.5 mm in north, east and up components of station position respectively.</div>

<div>The aim of the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) project is to develop an end-to-end, fully automated InSAR processing system that will take raw SAR data from any sensor and produce time-series maps of surface deformation/movement.</div><div>Surface deformation maps are important products to help define the national geodetic reference frame by augmenting the geodetic data obtained from sparse ground networks, in addition to identifying regions with elevated natural hazard risk.</div>