Surveying and Geodesy in Australia with GPS

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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is an all weather, high accuracy satellite positioning system that will drastically change the way in which many surveying tasks are presently carried out. One purpose of this article is to familiarise the surveyor with the GPS technology. The possible impact of the technique on the entire spectrum of surveying activities is also assessed. For everyday surveying, GPS is unlikely to displace EDM and the theodolite, but it will be competitive if present instrument costs are reduced. In geodesy GPS will replace all techniques currently used for determining positions of points separated by more than a few tens of kilometres. Its immediate use for geodynamics is most advantageous over distances ranging from 30 to 300 km. In Australia, the successful introduction of GPS for geodesy and high precision surveying applications hinges on the establishment of an orbit determination facility. This facility would also benefit the general surveying community.

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