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The increasing use and application of the Global Positioning System (GPS) that in the last years has had in Mexico, combined to the necessity at been able to use this type of equipment to determine vertical positions referred to a system of heights based on orthometrics heights, motivated the necessity at counting with a geoidal solution for the Mexican area, according to the positional precision that generate this type of instruments.
This presentation shows the project that the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) of Mexico is developing in order to have an accurate geoidal solution for the country, which in principle, will be consistent with the developed for the North American Gravity and Geoid Subcommission of the International Geoid Service. Up to date we have a preliminary solution, which has a root mean square error near to a meter, trying to achieve a solution at centimetric level within the next four years.
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Hernández-Navarro, A. (2002). Project to Refine the Geoidal Solution in the Mexican Area. In: Drewes, H., Dodson, A.H., Fortes, L.P.S., Sánchez, L., Sandoval, P. (eds) Vertical Reference Systems. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04683-8_31
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