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GPS: “ Where goeth thou ”

GPS: “ Where goeth thou ”. Thomas Herring With results from Jen Alltop: Geosystems Thesis Katy Quinn: Almost graduated Ph.D http://bowie.mit.edu/~tah. Overview. This semester we have had two faculty talks on GPS results: Today Analysis of accuracy of GPS

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GPS: “ Where goeth thou ”

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  1. GPS: “Where goeth thou” Thomas Herring With results from Jen Alltop: Geosystems Thesis Katy Quinn: Almost graduated Ph.D http://bowie.mit.edu/~tah

  2. Overview • This semester we have had two faculty talks on GPS results: Today • Analysis of accuracy of GPS • Motivations for improving GPS accuracy • Classes of problems we know we have in GPS and how we are addressing them • Effects of surface loads— sanity check on accuracy • So far GPS accuracy/precision has been pushed three-orders of magnitude over its design specification—Why not try for four-orders of magnitude? Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  3. Motivation for improving GPS accuracy • Types of high-precision GPS applications • Measurement of secular strain accumulation. Improved accuracy speeds up process, but not critical if not achieved. • Transient strain events (eg., Jeff McGuire’s talk). Being commonly observed in subduction zone environments and post-seismic. Accuracy critical here for reliability and detectable magnitudes. • In both cases, studies may be global or regional. • Specific global, secular problem: Measuring motions of tide-gauges so that tidal records can yield “absolute” sea-level changes Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  4. Motivations for improving accuracy • Applications continued • Spacecraft and aircraft navigation for altimeter applications. Averaging altimeter results (eg., TOPEX mean level rate of change) requires long-term stability of orbital reference frame. • Atmospheric delay measurements for weather forecasting and long terms studies of average atmospheric water vapor. • In general, the most stringent requirements come from global scale problems for both secular and transient measurements. Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  5. Global Plate motion 190 sites <2 mm/yr Horizontal Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  6. GPS Networks (Data and Results freely available from Internet) • The International GPS service (IGS) uses about 140 stations to determine GPS satellite orbits • Southern California Integrated GPS Network has 250 stations • The National Geodetic Survey CORS network has currently 260 sites • Japanese network >1000 stations • Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) could add 875 sites across Western US and Alaska in next 6 years. Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  7. 190 stations around LA. Red SIO Black JPL RMS diff ~1.2 mm/yr Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  8. Detail in LA Basin Sites which disagree tend to have systematic behavior in the time series. Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  9. Distribution of CORS stations in US and region Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  10. Time Series:North RMS0.7 mmEast RMS1.0 mmHeight RMS3.2 mm Coseismic displacement after Hector Mine earthquake Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  11. Results from Blyth on California Nevada Border Reason for North change in rate before Hector mine not known Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  12. Origins of systematic variations • Examine the effects of surface loading • These calculations are the obtained by convolution of an elastic Green’s function (Farrell, 1967) with surface loads. • For large area loads, the deformations are dominated by vertical displacements are center of load • Examine atmospheric pressure and ground water Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  13. Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  14. Height Changes at Penticton, Canada Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  15. Penticton Height Changes with Atmospheric load Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  16. Penticton Zoom in Winter Months Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  17. Water storage load displacement (NCEP) Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  18. Load Versus Local Signal Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  19. Impact of Global Scale Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

  20. Conclusions • GPS results have precision of order 1-2 mm even on large networks • Systematic variations, reflecting possible accuracy problems, can be due to actual deformation processes • Comparison with external models and improvements to GPS models and analysis could lead to routine sub-millimeter global positioning: 4-orders of magnitude better than design • Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) could provide “direct” measurements of loads Faculty Seminar Spring 2002

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