Expression of the local GPS solution in the regional reference frame ETRF2000

Abstract

Station coordinates of a Local GPS permanent network (National permanent network of Serbia – AGROS and national permanent network of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia – MAKPOS) were computed and expressed by aligning them to ITRF2005 using selected high quality Eurasian Plate EPN stations that were included in the GPS processing, which form part of the ITRF2005 realization. By application of transformation formulae, this network solution was transformed into ETRF2000. The minimum constraints approach has been applied preserving original characteristic of the local GPS solution, and in the same time, the local GPS solution was expressed in the regional reference frame through the mathematical definition of the ETRS89.