GLOBAL SATELLITE TRIANGULATION AND TRILATERATION FOR THE NATIONAL GEODETIC SATELLITE PROGRAM (SOLUTIONS WN 12, 14 and 16)

摘要

This report contains results in connection with (1). The goals of items (2) and (3) still need to be fulfilled when the quality of the obser¬vational material and/or the distribution of tracking stations will become better than those made available for this study.nThis report is in six sections. Following the brief section on instrumentation, section 3 contains material on observational and survey data as provided to The Ohio State University by the various data collecting agencies. After describing the theory in section 4,"the results of the least squares adjustment are given in section 5. This section also contains the comparison of these results with various dynamic solutions and survey data. In section 6 conclusions are presented with some recommendations for future work.