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  1. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology/Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Mail Stop 178, Reno, NV, 89557, USA

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Blewitt, G. (2016). GPS, Reference Systems. In: Grafarend, E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geodesy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02370-0_92-1

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