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Horizontal strain and precision of EDM from repeated surveys of the Precise Geodetic Net of Japan

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A simple statistical approach has been applied to the repeated electro-optical distance measurements (EDM) of 1,358 lines in the Tohoku district of Japan to obtain knowledge about the precision of EDM and the possible accumulation of strain. The average time interval between measurements is about seven or eight years. It is shown that the whole data of the difference between distance measurements repeated over a given lineδD are interpreted in terms of EDM errors comprising distance proportional systematic errors and standard errors expressed by the usual form\(\sqrt {\alpha ^2 + \beta ^2 D^2 } \). The rate of horizontal deformation must therefore be much smaller than the strain rates of about 0.7 ∼ 0.8 ppm over 7 to 8 years which have been hitherto expected.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Kagawa University, 1-1, Saiwai-cho, 760, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00807993.

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Mizuno, H. Horizontal strain and precision of EDM from repeated surveys of the Precise Geodetic Net of Japan. Bulletin Géodésique 68, 137–150 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00808287

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