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Geodesists on Tour: GNSS measurements in East Africa

and March 23, 2022
Geodesists on Tour: GNSS measurements in East Africa
Installation of site UGN6 at the Queen’s Pavilion (Uganda). Photo Credit: D. Sarah Stamps.

  Africa hosts the world’s most extensive subaerial rift system on Earth known as the East African Rift System (EARS). It stretches over 5000 km from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden intersection in the north to the Southwest Indian Spreading Ridge south of South Africa. East-West, the EARS spans the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo across to eastern Madagascar over 3000 km. The ...[Read More]

Geodesists on Tour: GPS measurements on Antarctica

and October 10, 2021
Geodesists on Tour: GPS measurements on Antarctica
ANET GPS site at Lepley Nunatak. Photo credit: Jeremy Miner

  Stories from the field – how exactly are those GPS data collected? The geodesy community at large benefits from the many science projects with open data policies.  A user simply has to navigate to a data portal, download the data, and within a matter of moments a world of possibilities opens up for potential research.  But where exactly do these data come from?  While scientific results get ...[Read More]