Satellite laser ranging to measure crustal motion in the eastern Mediterranean area - Instrumentation and network design

Details Satellite laser ranging to measure crustal motion in the eastern Mediterranean area - Instrumentation and network design Satellite laser ranging to measure crustal motion in the eastern Mediterranean area - Instrumentation and network design

Jun 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984angeo...2..249a&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0755-0685), vol. 2, May-June 1984, p. 249-258.

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Geodetic Satellites, Geodynamics, Laser Range Finders, Mediterranean Sea, Satellite Tracking, Tracking Networks, Earth Crust, Plates (Tectonics)

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Laser ranging to artificial satellites is presented as a technique for precise geodetic point positioning in widely spaced networks. Repeated network determination enables the monitoring of crustal motion. The eastern Mediterranean boundary zone of the Eurasian, African and Arabian tectonic plates was selected as an area of investigation in the framework of NASA's Crustal Dynamics Project. The tectonically complex area is inviting the deployment of newly developed highly transportable laser ranging instrumentation. Such instrumentation is to be acquired by two European geodetic research institutes. Considerations of cost and other constraints call for a balanced network design. An inventory is made as to applicable tectonic plate models. The rigid plate hypothesis is adopted as an initial approximation. A provisional network is subjected to several design criteria. First, the identified plate models are used to assess extension rates between stations. Secondly, the inverse problem of identifying a feasible minimum subset of station-to-station lines enabling the reliable recovery of alleged plate rotations is addressed.

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