n-geocentric coordinate system known as the War Office -Wolf, Veis and Molodensky -parameter linear affine) transformation models for the study area by ers. In order to ascertain the precision of the in both WGS84 and War Office systems. The results -Badekas and Veis models parameters transform WGS84 coordinates to

On 24 August 2014, the M 6.0 South Napa earthquake shook much of the San Francisco Bay area, leading to significant damage in the NapaValley. The earthquake occurred in the vicinity of the West Napa fault (122.313° W, 38.22° N, 11.3 km), a mapped structure located between the Rodger’s Creek and Green Valley faults, with nearly pure right-lateral strike-slip motion (strike 157°, dip 77°, rake –1...

The detection of active rock glacier and the quantification of the observed surface movement as well as its temporal change using the D-InSAR method are presented. An average deformation rate of -7.7 mm/35 days in the radar lineof-sight, in the summer of 1992, was estimated. Whereas, the corresponding geodetic measurement, vertical component of 3D flow velocity, was about –8.0 mm/35 days. Addit...

New inclinometers devoted to hydrological studies were set up in the Vosges Mountains (France). Two orthogonal 100-meter base hydrostatic inclinometers were installed in December 2004 as well as a hydrometeorological monitoring system for the 100-km2 hydrological unit around the inclinometer. As inclinometers are very sensitive to environmental influences, this observatory is a test site to con...

Abstract. Rigorous equations in compact symbolic matrix notation are introduced to transform coordinates and velocities between ITRF frames and modern GPS-based geocentric geodetic datums. The theory is general but after neglecting higher than second-order terms it is shown that the equations revert to the formulation currently applied in most major continental datums. We discuss several exampl...

This paper presents a new form of quartic equation based on Lagrange’s extremum law and a Groebner basis under the constraint that the geodetic height is the shortest distance between a given point and the reference ellipsoid. A very explicit and concise formulae of the quartic equation by Ferrari’s line is found, which avoids the need of a good starting guess for iterative methods. A new expli...

Troposphere delays are one of the major error sources of space geodetic and remote sensing techniques. Unlike ionospheric delays, which have a dispersive characteristics and thus can be canceled out by dual-frequency measurements, atmospheric propagation effects have to be modeled within the post-processing or model adjustment stage. Many space-geodetic techniques apply so-called mapping functi...

We present co-seismic displacement vectors derived from Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements of 92 stations in southern California. These GPS results are combined with five well-determined GPS displacement vectors from continuously tracking stations of the Permanent GPS Geodetic Array, as well as line-length changes from USGS Geodolite and two-color laser trilateration observations, to ...

We report on a program of geodetic measurements between 1994 and 2007 which used the Very Long Baseline Array and up to 10 globally distributed antennas. One of the goals of this program was to monitor positions of the array at a 1 millimeter level of accuracy and to tie the VLBA into the International Terrestrial Reference Frame. We describe the analysis of these data and report several intere...