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Precise geodesy with the Very Long Baseline Array

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We report on a program of geodetic measurements between 1994 and 2007 which used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and up to ten globally distributed antennas. One of the goals of this program was to monitor positions of the array at a 1 mm level of accuracy and to tie the VLBA into the international terrestrial reference frame. We describe the analysis of these data and report several interesting geophysical results including measured station displacements due to crustal motion, earthquakes, and antenna tilt. In terms of both formal errors and observed scatter, these sessions are among the very best geodetic very long baseline interferometry experiments.

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  1. ADNET Systems Inc./NASA GSFC, Code 610.2, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Leonid Petrov

  2. NVI Inc./NASA GSFC, Code 698, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    David Gordon, John Gipson & Dan MacMillan

  3. NASA GSFC, Code 698, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Chopo Ma

  4. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Rd, Charlottesville, VA, 22903-2475, USA

    Ed Fomalont

  5. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box O, Socorro, NM, 87801, USA

    R. Craig Walker

  6. Sigma Space Corporation/NASA GSFC, Code 698, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    Claudia Carabajal

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Petrov, L., Gordon, D., Gipson, J. et al. Precise geodesy with the Very Long Baseline Array. J Geod 83, 859–876 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-009-0304-7

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