학술논문

Applicability of Cost-Effective GNSS Sensors for Crustal Deformation Studies
Document Type
Academic Journal
Source
Sensors. January, 2022, Vol. 22 Issue 1
Subject
Cellular transmission equipment
Market trend/market analysis
Telecommunications equipment
Communications equipment -- Forecasts and trends
Sensors -- Forecasts and trends
Antennas (Electronics) -- Forecasts and trends
Tectonics (Geology) -- Forecasts and trends
Earth -- Crust
Language
English
ISSN
1424-8220
Abstract
The geodetic monitoring of the continuous crustal deformation in a particular region has traditionally been the prerogative of the scientific communities capable of affording high-price geodetic-class instruments to track the tiny movements of tectonic plates without losing precision. However, GNSS technology has been continuously and rapidly growing, and in the last years, new cost-efficient instruments have entered the mass market, gaining the attention of the scientific community for potentially being high-performing alternative solutions. In this study, we match in parallel a dual-frequency low-cost receiver with two high-price geodetic instruments, all connected to the same geodetic antenna. We select North-East Italy as testing area, and we process the data together with the observations coming from a network of GNSS permanent stations operating in this region. We show that mm-order precision can be achieved by cost-effective GNSS receivers, while the results in terms of time series are largely comparable to those obtained using high-price geodetic receivers.
Author(s): Lavinia Tunini (corresponding author) [*]; David Zuliani; Andrea Magrin 1. Introduction The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide a globally extended data set of primordial importance for a wide [...]