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A realization of a height system covering the south of Norway has been performed, based on least-squares collocation applied to differences between geometric and gravimetric quasigeoid heights, inhomogeneous and isotropic covariance modelling, and without prior information on the error sources of the involved data types. As a result, the derived normal heights were biased by the systematic errors of the GPS-levelling network. The important covariance properties were determined at every location from spatially differenced observations, and made it straightforward to evaluate the uncertainties of the biased height reference. The distribution of predictions followed a Gaussian shape, but extreme realizations were overrepresented.
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Mysen, E. On the computation of reliable formal uncertainties in the densification of GPS-levelling networks by least-squares collocation. J Geod 88, 917–926 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-014-0732-x
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