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A first step towards a national realisation of the international height reference system in Sweden with a comparison to RH 2000
University of Gävle, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Department of Computer and Geospatial Sciences, Geospatial Sciences. frastructure, Geodata Division, Lantmäteriet , Gävle , Sweden.
University of Gävle, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Department of Computer and Geospatial Sciences, Geospatial Sciences. Department of Geodetic Infrastructure, Geodata Division, Lantmäteriet , SE-80182 Gävle , Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0602-142X
2023 (English)In: Journal of Geodetic Science, ISSN 2081-9919, E-ISSN 2081-9943, Vol. 13, no 1, article id 20220156Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The International Height Reference System (IHRS) was defined by the International Association of Geodesy in 2015. Since then, the international geodetic community has been working on the specification and establishment of its realisation, the International Height Reference Frame (IHRF). This frame will primarily be realised by geopotential numbers (or physical heights) in a sparse global reference network. In Sweden, only one such global station is planned. Regional and national realisations (or densifications) computed in accordance with the IHRS definition are needed to enable the best possible unification of height datums. The main purpose of this article is to make a case study for Sweden regarding the national realisation of IHRS and to investigate in what way preliminary IHRF differs from the current Swedish levelling-based realisation of the European Vertical Reference System, RH 2000. The two different quasigeoid models that we consider best over Sweden at the present time are used to compute the preliminary IHRS realisations in the study. The realisations are compared to each other and to RH 2000. It is shown that a very significant part of the difference to RH 2000 is due to the different postglacial land uplift epochs, permanent tide concepts, and zero levels. The standard deviation for the difference between one of the preliminary national IHRS realisations and RH 2000 is reduced from 75.5 to 19.2 mm after correction of the postglacial land uplift and permanent tide effects. The corresponding mean differences are –208.5 and –454.7 mm, respectively. The magnitude of the mean difference thus increases when the corrections in question are applied.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
de Gruyter , 2023. Vol. 13, no 1, article id 20220156
Keywords [en]
GNSS; height datum unification; international height reference frame; postglacial land uplift; regional geoid determination; Sweden
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Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-43131DOI: 10.1515/jogs-2022-0156ISI: 001074107300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85173130852OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-43131DiVA, id: diva2:1805043
Available from: 2023-10-16 Created: 2023-10-16 Last updated: 2024-07-09Bibliographically approved
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1. Regional realisations of IHRS, the International Height Reference System
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2024 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[sv]
Regionala realiseringar av IHRS, det internationella höjdsystemet
Abstract [en]

A common global vertical reference frame for physical heights is essential in many applications, but an equivalent to the three-dimensional International Terrestrial Reference System has until recently been lacking for physical heights. The International Height Reference System, IHRS, was defined in 2015. It will be realised by the International Height Reference Frame, IHRF, on the global level by a sparse core reference network. To ensure local access and enable optimum height datum unification, adopted regional or national realisations (or densifications) are required. This thesis explores regional and national realisations of IHRS, employing both the standard pointwise methodology as well as levelling assisted approaches. Levelling observations have the potential to improve pointwise IHRS realisations. The thesis studies a regional levelling network that is adjusted with respect to an initial pointwise IHRS realisation using different approaches. The evaluation of these solutions is based on the resulting geopotential numbers and their estimated standard uncertainties. It is shown that including levelling observations in the IHRS realisation process might lead to significant improvements. It is recommended to employ a weighted adjustment of pointwise geopotential numbers and levelling observations, and to utilise variance component estimation as a tool to estimate a priori uncertainties. With a comparison to the Swedish levelling based realisation of the European Vertical Reference System, RH 2000, differences in the definitions of reference systems are explored. Corrections related to known effects, such as permanent tide concepts, postglacial land uplift epoch and zero level, are here considered. It is shown that the differences in the obtained geopotential numbers can be explained to rather large extent by these corrections. Finally, the thesis discusses how national and regional realisations of IHRS should be interpreted with respect to the global realisation.

Abstract [sv]

Globala referenssystem i höjd är grundläggande för många tillämpningar, dock har det, för fysikaliska höjder, hittills saknats en motsvarighet till det tredimensionella internationella referenssystemet, ITRS. Det internationella höjdsystemet, IHRS (International Height Reference System), som definierades 2015 kommer att realiseras av IHRF (International Height Reference Frame) som på global nivå kommer att bestå av ett glest nätverk av referensstationer. För att tillgodose behovet av lokal tillgänglighet och för att möjliggöra enhetliga höjdsystem krävs komplettering i form av regionala eller nationella realiseringar (eller förtätningar). Denna avhandling undersöker regionala och nationella IHRS-realiseringar både enligt den föreskrivna metodiken, punktvis realisering, och genom att inkludera avvägningsobservationer i realiseringen av IHRS. Avhandlingen studerar, genom olika ansatser, hur ett regionalt nät av avvägningsobservationer kan utjämnas i förhållande till en punktvis IHRS realisering. Utvärderingen av dessa lösningar baseras på de utjämnade geopotentialtalen och deras skattade standardosäkerheter. Resultaten visar att avvägningsobservationerna i IHRS-realiseringen kan bidra till signifikanta förbättringar. Det rekommenderas att använda viktad utjämning av de punktvisa geopotentialtalen och avvägningsobervationerna, samt att nyttja varianskomponentskattning för att uppskatta a priori-osäkerheter. Genom en jämförelse med det svenska höjdsystemet, RH 2000, undersöks definitionsmässiga skillnader mellan referenssystemen. Korrektioner relaterade till kända systemskillnader såsom tidjordssystem, landhöjningsepok och nollnivå beaktas. Resultaten visar att skillnader mellan erhållna geopotentialtal i de olika höjdsystemen till stor del kan hanteras genom att applicera dessa korrektioner. Slutligen behandlar avhandlingen hur regionala och nationella realiseringar av IHRS bör hanteras i förhållande till den globala realiseringen.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Gävle: Gävle University Press, 2024. p. 29
Series
Licentiate thesis ; 19
Keywords
Height datum unification, height reference frame, height reference system, IHRF, IHRS, precise levelling, Enhetliga höjdsystem, IHRS, IHRF, höjdsystem, precisionsavvägning
National Category
Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-45204 (URN)978-91-89593-42-8 (ISBN)978-91-89593-43-5 (ISBN)
Presentation
2024-09-27, 99:132, Högskolan i Gävle, Gävle, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2024-09-02 Created: 2024-07-09 Last updated: 2024-09-02Bibliographically approved

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