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The Crustal Dynamics Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Robert J. Coates*
Affiliation:
Crustal Dynamics Project, Code 601, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20771

Abstract

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The Crustal Dynamics Project has been developing, deploying, and operating very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) systems and satellite laser ranging (SLR) systems for highly accurate geodetic measurements of global plate motion, plate stability, regional crustal deformation, and earth rotation/polar motion. Over the past 10 years, the measurement accuracies of these systems have been improved by a factor of 10 to the cm level. Plans are to continue these developments to reach mm level accuracies. The present deployment of the VLBI systems is primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. This network has produced measurements of the relative plate motion between the North American, Eurasian, and Pacific plates; the stability of the same plates; and the regional deformation at the North American/Pacific plate boundary in California and Alaska.

Type
Geophysics
Copyright
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