Estimation of coordinates of the eastern european permanent GNSS stations using observation data for GPS weeks 1632–1708

1Khoda, OA
1Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2015, 21 ;(4):56–65
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2015.04.056
Publication Language: Russian
Abstract: 

Observations of GNSS satellites at permanent stations located in Ukraine and in the Eastern Europe for GPS weeks 1632–1708 were processed in GNSS Data Analysis Centre of the Main Astronomical Observatory NAS of Ukraine. The processing was carried out with Bernese GPS Software ver. 5.0. As a result, the estimation of stations coordinates in the IGS08 reference frame and the estimation of zenith tropospheric delays for all stations (including new stations of the Ukrainian commercial networks TNT-TPI GNSS Network and System. NET) are defined. The obtained solutions are in a good agreement with the combined solutions of the EUREF Permanent GNSS Network.

Keywords: Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), IGS08, International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF), stations coordinates, zenith tropospheric delays
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