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<div>Dear Colleagues, <br>
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<div>This email is addressed to the owners, operators and surveyors of ITRF Co-location sites.<br>
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I hope that you are all safe and healthy in this unprecedented and terrible pandemic situation.<br>
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In building and operating Core co-location sites, your contribution is fundamental to
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global geodesy and to the ITRF in particular.<br>
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The four IAG services (IDS, IGS, ILRS and IVS) are currently reprocessing their data<br>
in preparation for their contribution to the ITRF2020. The ITRF2020 Call for Participation
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is available here: http://itrf.ign.fr/doc_ITRF/CFP-ITRF2020.pdf<br>
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Recent and past results of local surveys at ITRF co-location sites are solicited for inclusion<br>
in ITRF2020 analysis. Local ties should be provided in SINEX format, with full variance covariance<br>
information, together with a report if available.<br>
If more than one local surveys were operated, at different epochs, we kindly ask you to make all<br>
the results available: one SINEX per local survey results.<br>
In the scope of the activity of the IAG working group WG 1.2.1 Methodology for surveying geodetic<br>
instrument reference points (joint with IERS), co-location site survey and survey product metadata<br>
are being collected. When submitting your local tie SINEX file(s), we kindly ask you to fill in and
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send the excel sheet/form available at the following link:<br>
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http://itrf.ign.fr/local_surveys.php<br>
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Please submit your files to:<br>
ITRS Center: itrf@ign.fr <br>
and <br>
IERS Central Bureau: central_bureau@iers.org<br>
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The IERS ITRS Product Center is particularly grateful to all the institutions that provide the necessary investment for the space geodetic observatories which constitute the main ITRF foundation.<br>
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<div>Counting on your valuable contributions.<br>
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Sincerely Yours<br>
Zuheir Altamimi<br>
Head, ITRS Center<br>
President, International Association of Geodesy <br>
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