<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Appropriate precision and low cost are the basic conditions that have to be fulfilled by a project of a geodetic network. Reliability, translating into the ability to detect gross errors in the observations and higher certainty of the obtained point position, is an important network characteristic. The principal way to provide appropriate network reliability is to acquire a suitably large number of redundant observations. Optimisation of the observation accuracy harmonisation procedure allowing for the acquisition of an appropriate level of reliability through modification of the observation a priori standard deviations is the focus of this study. Parameterisation of the accuracy harmonisation is proposed. Furthermore, the influence of the individual parameter operation on the effectiveness of the harmonisation procedure is tested. Based on the results of the tests an optimal set of harmonisation parameters which guarantees the maximal efficiency of the harmonisation algorithm is proposed.</p></abstract>

Appropriate precision and low cost are the basic conditions that have to be fulfilled by a project of a geodetic network. Reliability, translating into the ability to detect gross errors in the observations and higher certainty of the obtained point position, is an important network characteristic. The principal way to provide appropriate network reliability is to acquire a suitably large number of redundant observations. Optimisation of the observation accuracy harmonisation procedure allowing for the acquisition of an appropriate level of reliability through modification of the observation a priori standard deviations is the focus of this study. Parameterisation of the accuracy harmonisation is proposed. Furthermore, the influence of the individual parameter operation on the effectiveness of the harmonisation procedure is tested. Based on the results of the tests an optimal set of harmonisation parameters which guarantees the maximal efficiency of the harmonisation algorithm is proposed.

Adjustment of observation accuracy harmonisation parameters in optimising the network’s reliability

Reports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics

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Appropriate precision and low cost are the basic conditions that have to be fulfilled by a project of a geodetic network. Reliability, translating into the...

Adjustment of observation accuracy harmonisation parameters in optimising the network’s reliability

Published Online: Jul 17, 2018

Page range: 53 - 59

Received: Feb 12, 2018

Accepted: Jun 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rgg-2018-0006

Keywords
network reliability, accuracy harmonisation

© 2018 Edward Nowak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Adjustment of observation accuracy harmonisation parameters in optimising the network’s reliability

Published Online: Jul 17, 2018

Page range: 53 - 59

Received: Feb 12, 2018

Accepted: Jun 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rgg-2018-0006

Keywordsnetwork reliability, accuracy harmonisation

© 2018 Edward Nowak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
network reliability, accuracy harmonisation