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THE GIANT PROGRAM http://www.scar-ggi.org.au/geodesy/giant.htm. Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information (WG-GGI). SCAR Antarctic Geodesy Symposia. Chile 1999 Warsaw 2000 St Petersburg - AGS 01 Objectives : mid term review of workplan maintain group contact
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THE GIANT PROGRAMhttp://www.scar-ggi.org.au/geodesy/giant.htm Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information (WG-GGI)
SCAR Antarctic Geodesy Symposia • Chile 1999 • Warsaw 2000 • St Petersburg - AGS 01 • Objectives : • mid term review of workplan • maintain group contact • assess progress and suggestnew cooperative initiatives • publish activities
SCAR BACKGROUND • ISCU Body • Origin third IGY (1957) • Coordinate cooperative research • Series of specialist working groups • Geography WG formed 1958
WG- GGI Background • WG renamed Geodesy and Cartography 1960 • Renamed Geodesy and Geographic Information 1988 • Structural refocussed since 1992 into a number of sub programs • Now has two major groupings plus an outreach component
ANTARCTIC GEODESY TECHNIQUES Intercontinental Baseline accuracies • Astronomical fixes +/- 400 metres • Pageos (1969) +/- 10 metres • Doppler (1972) +/- 5 metres • Early GPS (1990) +/- 1-2 metres • Continuous GPS +/- centimetres
WG-GGI PROGRAMS • Geodetic Infrastructure (GIANT) • Geographic Information • Outreach (web site etc)
GIANT • Initially conceived 1992 as application of new space Geodesy to Antarctic mapping problems • Space technological development now enables monitoring of current surface geodynamics
GEODETIC INFRASTRUCTURE OF ANTARCTICA (GIANT) Objectives • Geodetic framework for science • basis for homogeneous spatial data • linking isolated geodetic datums • co-location of geodetic techniques
GEODETIC FRAMEWORK • Permanent GPS Base Stations • Epoch GPS Campaigns • VLBI • DORIS • Tide Gauges • Absolute Gravity
Permanent Geodetic Observatories; Crustal Deformation Network; Physical Geodesy; Geodetic Control Database; Tide Gauge Data; Atmospheric Impact on GPS Observations in Antarctica; Remote Geodetic Observatories; and New Geodetic Satellite Missions Giant program components
Antarctic GPS base stations • Data from Red dots available through IGS • Data from blue dots available on request from individual researchers
Mawson CGPS time series
Antarctic DORIS sites • Data available from IGN or from CDDIS
Antarctic Tide Gauge operations • IOC web sitehttp://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/default.htm • Southern Ocean Sea level centrehttp://www.ntf.flinders.edu.au/TEXT/PRJS/SOUTH/south.html
GLONASS orbits and comparisons : IGLOS Electronic Mail • Permanent receivers at Davis, McMurdo, O’Higgins • Product access : By anonymous ftp to http://igs.ifag.de
1989 -feasibility 1990 - pilot 1991 - CIGNET 1992 - Major Campaign 1993 Minor 1994 Minor 1995 - Major 1996 Minor 1997 - Major 1998 Minor 1999 2000 GPS EPOCH CAMPAIGNS
SUMMARY • GIANT provides a fiducial framework of permanent sites • Contemporary velocities at permanent and remote sites • Linkages at fiducial sites to other techniques - VLBI, Tide Gauges, Gravity • Contributions to global geodesy
GIANT Ongoing Strategy • Encourage establishment of IGS stations and use of IGS procedures • Open data from base stations • Access to RINEX and SINEX results • Produce integrated solutions for ITRF densification • Official published verified results in ITRF
GIANT STRATEGY • Continue as the overall linking mechanism for Antarctic Geodesy • Encourage participation in building a combined cooperative network • Use of one reference frame for positions • use of web site for meta data and information access
SCAR WG-GGI Highlights • ADD • Composite Gazetteer • Map and chart catalogue • Specifications for GIS • Contribution to Global Map project • Permanent network of geodetic observatories • Global orbits and ITRF primary datum • Densification of ITRF2000 • Absolute gravity