<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Russian State Time, Frequency and Earth Rotation Service provides the official EOP data and time for use in scientific, technical and metrological works in Russia. The observations of GLONASS and GPS on 30 stations in Russia, and also the Russian and worldwide observations data of VLBI (35 stations) and SLR (20 stations) are used now. To these three series of EOP the data calculated in two other Russian analysis centers are added: IAA (VLBI, GPS and SLR series) and MCC (SLR). Joint processing of these 7 series is carried out every day (the operational EOP data for the last day and the predicted values for 50 days). The EOP values are weekly refined and systematic errors of every individual series are corrected. The combined results become accessible on the VNIIFTRI server (ftp.imvp.ru) approximately at 6h UT daily.</p></abstract>

Russian State Time, Frequency and Earth Rotation Service provides the official EOP data and time for use in scientific, technical and metrological works in Russia. The observations of GLONASS and GPS on 30 stations in Russia, and also the Russian and worldwide observations data of VLBI (35 stations) and SLR (20 stations) are used now. To these three series of EOP the data calculated in two other Russian analysis centers are added: IAA (VLBI, GPS and SLR series) and MCC (SLR). Joint processing of these 7 series is carried out every day (the operational EOP data for the last day and the predicted values for 50 days). The EOP values are weekly refined and systematic errors of every individual series are corrected. The combined results become accessible on the VNIIFTRI server (ftp.imvp.ru) approximately at 6h UT daily.

Russian State Time and Earth Rotation Service: Observations, Eop Series, Prediction

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Russian State Time, Frequency and Earth Rotation Service provides the official EOP data and time for use in scientific, technical and metrological works in...

Russian State Time and Earth Rotation Service: Observations, Eop Series, Prediction

Published Online: Nov 01, 2010

Page range: 81 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10018-010-0008-5

Keywords
Earth rotation, EOP, GLONASS, GPS, VLBI, SLR

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Russian State Time and Earth Rotation Service: Observations, Eop Series, Prediction

Published Online: Nov 01, 2010

Page range: 81 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10018-010-0008-5

KeywordsEarth rotation, EOP, GLONASS, GPS, VLBI, SLR

This content is open access.

Keywords
Earth rotation, EOP, GLONASS, GPS, VLBI, SLR