25.06.2013 Views

PDF file - Laboratoire de Géologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure - Ens

PDF file - Laboratoire de Géologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure - Ens

PDF file - Laboratoire de Géologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure - Ens

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

14<br />

SOCQUET ET AL.: GPS MEASUREMENTS TO REFINE INDIA/SUNDA RELATIVE MOTION<br />

Electronic supplement to : India and Sunda Plates motion<br />

and <strong>de</strong>formation along their boundary in Myanmar<br />

<strong>de</strong>termined by GPS<br />

1. Data processing<br />

The solution presented here is a combination of two<br />

different solutions performed in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>ntly with<br />

different softwares (GAMIT / GLOBK and GIPSY-<br />

OASIS II). The data sets are also different, having<br />

only 60% of the sites in common, and different<br />

measurements history at some sites. The main<br />

difference in processing strategies is that GAMIT<br />

explicitly forms double differences and solves for all<br />

baselines in a given network, while GIPSY uses the<br />

precise point positioning (PPP) strategy. The second<br />

important difference is the strategy used to estimate<br />

velocities. GLOBK combines all measurements to<br />

estimate positions and velocities in an unconstrained<br />

reference frame (the so called free network solution)<br />

and map them into a given reference frame (here<br />

ITRF2000) in a second stage. GIPSY estimates<br />

positions in a given reference frame (again ITRF2000)<br />

at every epoch, and velocities are then estimated by<br />

linear trend fitting of the position time series.<br />

1.1. Details on the GAMIT/GLOBK<br />

processing<br />

The solution computed using the GAMIT /<br />

GLOBK software [Herring, 1999; King, 1999]<br />

inclu<strong>de</strong>s more than 150 stations spread over Southern<br />

Asia spanning 11 years of data processed<br />

simultaneously. The data located in SE-Asia are<br />

GEODYSSEA (GEODYnamics of South and<br />

Southeast Asia) project) (1994-1996-1998) [Michel et<br />

al., 2001], APRGP (Asia Pacific Regional Geo<strong>de</strong>tic<br />

Project) (1997-1998-1999-2000) [Govind, et al.,<br />

1999], THAICA (first or<strong>de</strong>r network of Thailand<br />

established by the Royal Thai Survey Department)<br />

(1994-1996-2000), Myanmar campaigns performed in<br />

1998-2000 [Vigny, et al., 2003] and Sulawesi<br />

(ENS/DEOS <strong>de</strong>nsification of the GEODYSSEA<br />

network in Sulawesi, Indonesia) (1999-2000-2001-<br />

2002) campaigns [Walpersdorf et al., 1999; Simons et<br />

al., 2000; Vigny et al., 2002; Socquet et al., 2005].<br />

Data located on the Indian plate inclu<strong>de</strong> the West<br />

Nepal network measured in 1991-1995-1997-1998-<br />

2000 within the CIRES and IDYLHIM projects<br />

[Bilham, et al., 1997; Larson, et al., 1999; Jouanne, et<br />

al., 1999], the Kathmandu transect measured in 1998-<br />

1999-2000 by the LDG-CEA (Commissariat à<br />

l’Energie Atomique) [Avouac, et al., 2001] and<br />

HYDE station (Hy<strong>de</strong>rabad) measured by the<br />

National Geophysical Research Institute in<br />

Hy<strong>de</strong>rabad (NGRI, India) and the Geodaetisches<br />

Institut <strong>de</strong>r Universitaet Bonn (Germany) in 1996-<br />

1997-1998-1999-2000.. Finally, all IGS stations<br />

available in the area at the time of any of our<br />

measurements are inclu<strong>de</strong>d<br />

Twenty-four-hour measurement sessions are<br />

reduced to daily positions. For every daily session<br />

theoretical values for phase and pseudorange<br />

observables are mo<strong>de</strong>lled. The mo<strong>de</strong>l parameters<br />

such as stations coordinates, phase ambiguities and<br />

tropospheric zenith <strong>de</strong>lay (one every 3 hours) are<br />

adjusted by least squares method. The observations<br />

are sampled every 30 seconds with an elevation cutoff<br />

angle of 15 <strong>de</strong>grees. We use the "LC" or "L3"<br />

Ionosphere free combination of the two-phase data<br />

and explicitly form the double differences (between<br />

every pairs of satellites and stations). During a first<br />

step the integer ambiguities are allowed to take<br />

<strong>de</strong>cimal values. They are assigned to integer values<br />

in a second step, using the method <strong>de</strong>veloped by<br />

[Dong and Bock, 1989]. We also used IGS tables<br />

for mo<strong>de</strong>lling of antenna phase centre variations.<br />

Finally, we used precise orbits from the<br />

International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS)<br />

[Beutler, et al., 1993] that we did not re-estimate,<br />

except for the West Nepal data of 1991 where we<br />

used the orbits computed by [Larson, et al., 1997].<br />

IGS orbits are fixed in different reference frames as<br />

time passes. This is taken into account by simply<br />

estimating the translation and rotation parameters of<br />

the reference frame at each epoch when combining<br />

the epoch solutions to estimate linear velocities at<br />

all sites. This is a standard procedure which gives<br />

similar results to the "relax" orbit kind of solutions.<br />

One of the ways to assess the internal quality of<br />

a solution is to estimate daily repeatabilities, i.e. the<br />

scatter of the baseline measurements about their<br />

campaign average. This is done for every campaign<br />

and gives a higher bound of its noise level, provi<strong>de</strong>d<br />

that sufficient repetition generates significant<br />

repeatabilities. Baseline component repeatability<br />

values for each campaign are summarized in Table<br />

S1 for fixed ambiguities. Repeatabilities vary for

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!