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Geodesy, astrometry, high precision navigation — all these disciplines require a set of local and global reference frames in an operative sense. Now, it is widely appreciated that this represents not merely a practical but equally well a conceptual problem, which becomes even stronger with the necessity to leave the classical Newtonian framework and to work in a relativistic space-time.
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Soffel, M.H. (1989). Reference Frames and Astrometry. In: Relativity in Astrometry, Celestial Mechanics and Geodesy. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73406-9_3
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