Vietnam builds stations for global navigation satellite system

Vietnam is completing the construction for 65 Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS), using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to provide highly accurate geo-spatial positioning.
Vietnam builds stations for global navigation satellite system ảnh 1At the meeting held by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Agency for Survey and Mapping (Photo: baotainguyenmoitruong.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam is completing the construction for 65Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS), using the Global NavigationSatellite System (GNSS) to provide highly accurate geo-spatial positioning.

The information was heard on July 23 at a meeting of the Ministry of NaturalResources and Environment’s Agency for Survey and Mapping to report the resultsof the project on building a network of satellite-based global positioningstations in Vietnam.

The stations provide GPS data to support every accurate positioning not only inmap survey but also in transport, environment, geophysics, construction, andagriculture.

According to head of the agency Phan Duc Hieu, the project is to form a networkof global positioning stations that help detect movements of tectonic plates,and enhance weather forecast capacity, serving the national target programme onclimate change response.

Actually, application of GNSS has shown efficiency, with coordinate deviationless than 5 centimetres, he said, adding that more than 280 organisations andindividuals have registered to use the service so far, and the number willincrease when the CORS become operational in the central and southern regions.

Vietnam is planning to build 160 CORS applying GNSS.-VNA
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