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Stable and upgraded horizontal datum for India


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1 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany, India
2 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016, India
3 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam; Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
 

A precise datum is significant as a starting or reference point for a multitude of activities like floodplain maps, property boundaries, civil surveys, precise agriculture, crustal deformation and climate studies, and works requiring consistent coordinates. A large nation like India, with almost its own tectonic plate, must have a well-defined network of horizontal datum for determining accurate and reliable 3D positioning for every user, anywhere and anytime. This article discusses the significance, methodology of realization and transformation, applications and static/dynamic coordinates for paving the way for a National Horizontal Datum in India

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Geodetic Survey, Horizontal Datum, Reference Frame, Tectonic Plate, Three-dimensional Positioning
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Authors

Sujata Dhar
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany, India
Nagarajan Balasubramanian
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016, India
Onkar Dikshit
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208 016, India
Harald Schuh
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam; Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Abstract


A precise datum is significant as a starting or reference point for a multitude of activities like floodplain maps, property boundaries, civil surveys, precise agriculture, crustal deformation and climate studies, and works requiring consistent coordinates. A large nation like India, with almost its own tectonic plate, must have a well-defined network of horizontal datum for determining accurate and reliable 3D positioning for every user, anywhere and anytime. This article discusses the significance, methodology of realization and transformation, applications and static/dynamic coordinates for paving the way for a National Horizontal Datum in India

Keywords


Geodetic Survey, Horizontal Datum, Reference Frame, Tectonic Plate, Three-dimensional Positioning

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv123%2Fi1%2F43-51