Objectives of the Project
With this project, GGOS aims to close the major geographical and technological gaps in the current global network of geodetic core sites. The project will design a network of core sites that will have the requisite geographical coverage to allow the targeted reference frame accuracy to be achieved. By facilitating an upgrade of the current network to the new core network the geographical gaps will be removed. The development of the new core sites of the Global Geodetic Core Network will address major technological gaps at the current core sites and will lead to a reduction of the operational resources required for the individual sites. In particular, the new core sites will provide well monitored ties between the individual stations at the site. The Global Geodetic Core Network will be a major step in the implementation of Recommendation 9.1 of GGOS 2020, which resulted from GEO Task AR-07-03 (now GEO Task DA-09-02c).
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Schedule
May 2009: Project introduced to GEO Science and Technology Committee; see
slides or description.
August 30, 2009: Discussion of Call for Participation (CfP) at the GGOS Steering Committee Meeting.
September 2009: Publication of CfP.
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