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Quasigeoids for the Territory of the Czech Republic

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Several quasigeoid models for the Czech Republic have been developed for different purposes since mid-seventies using different data sources: gravimetric, astronomical and GPS/levelling observations, as well as data gained from the territories of neighbouring countries. Two of the recent solutions, namely the VUGTK96 quasigeoid obtained from heterogeneous data and gravimetric quasigeoid CR2000 are described and compared. Accuracies of the models were estimated with the help of accuracy characteristics resulting from the processing, by comparison with GPS/levelling results available for most of the territory, and, finally, tested on a special GPS/levelling profile across the steepest slope of the quasigeoid surface in the south-eastern part of the territory. It is shown that the CR2000 gravimetric quasigeoid is suitable for transformation of ellipsoidal GPS heights to the gravity related heights with an accuracy of 3 cm.

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  1. Center for Earth Dynamics Research (CEDR), Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography, GO Pecný, 251 65, Ondřejov, Czech Republic

    J. Kostelecký, J. Kostelecký Jr. & J. Šimek

  2. Center for Earth Dynamics Research (CEDR), Department of Advanced Geodesy, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Thákurova 7, 166 29, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    J. Kostelecký, I. Pešek & A. Zeman

  3. Institute of Geodesy, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Veveří, 95, 662 37, Brno, Czech Republic

    O. Švábenský & J. Weigel

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Kostelecký, J., Kostelecký, J., Pešek, I. et al. Quasigeoids for the Territory of the Czech Republic. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica 48, 503–518 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SGEG.0000037469.70838.39

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