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NGS, Partners Coordinate on Geodesy Technologies

Friday December 11, 2020

NGS met with stakeholders from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas-Austin to agree on plans to add Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) sensors at all 10 sites of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) network. The VLBA is a U.S. network of gigantic radio antenna dishes supporting the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, a fundamental part of U.S. and international spatial reference systems. NGS scientists described their Site Survey program linking the radio dishes to NGS Foundation Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) . NGS's partners expressed enthusiasm for adding the CORS at these VLBA facilities, which will speed NGS foundation plans and improve the accuracy of America's modernized National Spatial Reference System.

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