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Space geodesy as a scientific discipline is in the very unique and enviable position of marrying fast developing technology with rapidly expanding scientific goals. As high precision techniques become more easily accessible to the scientific community, the range of problems which geodesists can address in earnest expands to incorporate issues previously deemed too formidable to be treated successfully. Recent workshops (Mueller and Zerbini, 1989; NASA, 1991) resulted in fairly comprehensive reviews of the opportunities opened by space geodesy, and in specific recommendations concerning the areas in which to focus attention. In the context of an International Global GPS Service, we take a somewhat specialized point of view and focus on science issues that cannot be addressed properly in the absence a global network, as well as applications which would benefit directly and substantially from such a network. These science goals can then be embodied in a set of specific objectives, which provide a context for network design. The rationale for a “Common, Global, Integrated, Fundamental Network”, has been discussed by Knickmeyer (1990) and Boucher (1990).
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Minster, JB. et al. (1993). Network Design Considerations for the International GPS Geodynamics Service. In: Mader, G.L. (eds) Permanent Satellite Tracking Networks for Geodesy and Geodynamics. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77726-4_2
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