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The Contribution of the Geodetic Observatory O’Higgins to the Realization of a Geodetic Reference Frame in Antarctica

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Geodesy on the Move

Part of the book series: International Association of Geodesy Symposia ((IAG SYMPOSIA,volume 119))

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Abstract

Since 1948 O’Higgins is a permanently manned Antarctic military base managed by the Chilean Army, located near the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula on a small offshore island. At the end of the eighties the Federal Republic of Germany developed a combined SAR receiver and geodetic VLBI antenna to be placed in the neighbourhood of the Weddell Sea to collect radar data of the European Remote Sensing Satellites (ERS). The project was managed by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG), the German Aerospace Research (DLR) and the German Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Alfred-Wegener-Institute) under BKG’s leadership.

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  1. Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Außenstelle Leipzig, Karl-Rothe-Straße 10-14, D-04105, Leipzig, Germany

    J. Ihde, A. Reinhold, G. Soltau, V. Thorandt & R. Wojdziak

  2. Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Richard-Strauss-Allee 11, D-60598, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    H. Seeger

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  1. Department of Geodynamics, Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen, Rentemestervej 8, DK-2400, Copenhagen NV, Denmark

    Rene Forsberg

  2. Observatoire de Paris, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France

    Martine Feissel

  3. Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Technische Universität Dresden, Mommsenstraße 13, D-01062, Dresden, Germany

    Reinhard Dietrich

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Ihde, J., Reinhold, A., Seeger, H., Soltau, G., Thorandt, V., Wojdziak, R. (1998). The Contribution of the Geodetic Observatory O’Higgins to the Realization of a Geodetic Reference Frame in Antarctica. In: Forsberg, R., Feissel, M., Dietrich, R. (eds) Geodesy on the Move. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72245-5_86

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