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Accurate relative positioning via dynamic satellite methods is a complicated process. In an attempt to simplify this process a semidynamic method has been investigated in a real data environment. In this method quasi-simultaneous observations from pairs of stations are transformed to Simultaneous Range Differences(SRD's). With this transformation it is anticipated to reduce the effects of orbital and observational residual biases and, therefore, to obtain baselines the accuracy of which is less sensitive to the overall orbital accuracy and yet compatible to that of the observations. Using laser range observations to Lageos collected during theMERIT Main Campaign, baselines have been estimated via both theSRD and the geometric methods. Baselines estimated via the geometric method are independent of orbital errors and any inconsistencies affecting the implementation of the Terrestrial Reference Frame, and therefore they have been used in the present study as standards of comparison. From this comparison it was concluded that for baselines of regional extent, theSRD method is very efficient and at least as accurate as the more complex dynamic methods.
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Dedes, G.C., Mueller, I.I. Baseline estimation with semidynamic and geometric satellite methods. Bull. Geodesique 63, 99–114 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02519145
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