The ITRF96 realization and its associated velocity field

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3223-3226

  Sillard, Patrick ^a   Altamimi, Zuheir ^a,b   Boucher, Claude ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^b Intl Earth Rotation Serv Ctrl B   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECTONIC PLATE MODELS; VARIANCE-COVARIANCE MATRIX;

GEODESY; KINEMATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES;

TECTONICS;

EARTH ROTATION; GEODETIC NETWORK; PLATE MOTION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032173180     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL52489     Document Type: Article

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