Victorian Update

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Victorian Update

• CGSIC
• July 2006
• Peter Ramm
• peter.ramm_at_dse.vic.gov.au

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Outline

• Introduction
• Current Status
• Current Issues
• Future

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Introduction
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Victoria

• Area
• Population
• 24.9 of Australia)

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2004 CGSIC Report

• 21 Sep 2004 Long Beach
• Issues
• Policy Framework
• Location Based Services Project
• Implications for Victoria
• Realisation of the datum
• Reg 13

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Current Status
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Policy Framework

• Continues to be important
• Provides the policy context for positioning
  infrastructure
• Within Policy, positioning is becoming more
  important
• Facilitates other activities
• Exposes quality issue in other spatial DB
• Coordination of infrastructure

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LBS

• Planned to have about 0.5 m accuracy real time
  solution over Vic
• Delivered Dec 2004

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Implications For Vic

• For all practical purposes GPSnet is the
  realisation of the geodetic datum in Vic
• Now have Reg 13 Certificates on 18 Base Stations

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Victorian GPS Base Station Network
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Comparison
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Current Issues
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Current Issues

• Networks solutions not quite there
• Inter Station Distance too small
• Poor understanding of how they work
• Low sat numbers a problem at times
• Driving changes in spatial data
• Increased spatial accuracy in mapping
• Coordination
• Multiple software systems on the one network
• Hardware Costs down, but operators still have
  high costs
• CRC SI
• NCRIS

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The Future
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The Future

• State wide
• Real time
• 2-3 cm Horiz Accuracy
• 3-5 cm Vertical Accuracy

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Relevant papers (Vic Priorities)

• Denham et al Contemporary Position and Navigation
  Needs of Precision Agriculture and Victorias
  GPSnet CORS Network
• Gordini et al Testing and Evaluation of a GPS
  VCORS Network for Real Time Centimetric
  Positioning The Victorian GPSnet
• Hale et al validating a Model For CORS Network
  Management
• Yousufi et al Temporal variations of the Victoria
  GPSnet Base Stations
• Zhang et al Sparse or Dense Challenges of
  Australian Network RTK
• Timeframes a problem

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Question?