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Vietnam builds satellite-based global positioning stations

The Agency for Survey and Mapping under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has launched a project on building a network of satellite-based global positioning stations in Vietnam.
Vietnam builds satellite-based global positioning stations ảnh 1Building the first satellite-based global positioning station in at Moc Chau Agricultural Meteorological Station in Moc Chau district, northern Son La province (Photo: monre.gov.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Agency for Surveyand Mapping under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) haslaunched a project on building a network of satellite-based global positioningstations in Vietnam.

It has also commenced the constructionof the first satellite-based global positioning station at the Moc ChauAgricultural Meteorological Station in Moc Chau district, the northernmountainous province of Son La.

The station is one of the 65 ContinuouslyOperating Reference Stations (CORS) to be built across the country,including 24 Geodetic CORS and 41 Network Real Time Kinematic CORS.

The stations will continuously send satellitesignals from global positioning systems to the central station for processing.

Phan Duc Hieu, head of the agency, saidwith the project, which is one of the agency’s key projects during the2016-2020 period, will contribute to boosting the application of new technologyand increasing labour productivity in the survey and mapping area in Vietnam.-VNA
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