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Australia is a vast continent of over 9,000,000 square kilometres, with a population of a little more than 17 million, the overwhelming majority of which live in a half dozen cities on the coastal margins. Developing and maintaining a continent-wide geodetic control network represents an enormous technical challenge. A further challenge has been to carry out this task using the most cost effective technologies of the day.
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Rizos, C., Morgan, P., Chu, CM. (1993). GPS Orbit Computations in Australia within the International GPS Geodynamics Service: Should We? Could We?. In: Montag, H., Reigber, C. (eds) Geodesy and Physics of the Earth. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78149-0_8
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