This volume is the result of the dedicated effort undertaken by an international group of scientists and administrators, who have contemplated the challenge of

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geodynamics Series, Volume 24. There are times in the history of a science when the evolving technolo

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Geodesy has undergone technological and theoretical changes of immense proportions since the launching of Sputnik. The accuracy of current satellite geodetic da

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