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CORS & OPUS:
     STATUS & FUTURE PROSPECTS
  • NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey


  • ACSM Annual Conference
  • Orlando, FL
  • April 25, 2006
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Continuously Operating Reference Stations
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AGENDA
  • Introduction – Richard Snay


  • OPUS in Mexico – Tom Soler


  • Guidelines for New & Existing CORS –        Giovanni Sella


  • OPUS-DB – Joe Evjen & Rick Foote


  • Towards Real Time – Neil Weston
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CORS OVERVIEW
  • CORS Network contains 900+ sites
  • CORS Network growing at rate of 15 sites per month
  • More than 175 organizations participate in the CORS program
  • Provides code range (C/A, P1, P2)
    • and carrier phase observations (L1, L2)
    • Expect to provide L2C code range in near future
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CORS APPLICATIONS
  • Postmission Static Positioning (cm-level accuracy with a few hours of data, dm-level accuracy with one minute of data)
  • Postmission Kinematic Positioning (dm-level accuracy for an aircraft, boat, or land vehicle)
  • Geophysics / Crustal Motion
  • Meteorology / Water Vapor in Atmosphere
  • Space Weather / Free Electrons in Ionosphere
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CORS NETWORK NOW CONTAINS 6 IRAQI SITES
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