PSU ARL NRDC CORS ARP / L1 PHASE CENTER - Bucks County, PA
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N 40° 11.770 W 075° 03.594
18T E 494901 N 4449532
NGS CORS station located atop a building at a Penn State University research facility near Philadelphia.
Waymark Code: WM5M6R
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 01/20/2009
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From the website of the National Geodetic Survey - the following is a description of a CORS (http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/):
"The National Geodetic Survey (NGS), an office of NOAA's National Ocean Service, coordinates a network of continuously operating reference stations (CORS). Each CORS site provides Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS - GPS and GLONASS) carrier phase and code range measurements in support of 3-dimensional positioning activities throughout the United States and its territories (map).
Surveyors, GIS/LIS professionals, engineers, scientists, and others can apply CORS data to position points at which GNNS data have been collected. The CORS system enables positioning accuracies that approach a few centimeters relative to the National Spatial Reference System, both horizontally and vertically.
The CORS system benefits from a multi-purpose cooperative endeavor involving many government, academic, commercial and private organizations. New sites are evaluated for inclusion according to established criteria."
This CORS station is located NE of Street RD & at the end of Newtoen RD. Note - the area of the station is not accessible by the general public, although station data is available from the National Geodetic Survey website.
From the NGS datasheet(s): MARKER: STATION IS THE ANTENNA REFERENCE POINT OF THE GPS ANTENNA
Note - this site has 2 NGS PIDs:
DF5884 - PSU ARL NRDC CORS ARP
DF5885 - PSU ARL NRDC CORS L1 PHASE CENTER
Condition: Mark found in good condition
Designation: PARL
Benchmark Agency: Not listed
Monumentation type: other (not any of the below)
Monumentation type (if other): CORS Station
County: Bucks
USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): Hatboro - PA
Special Category (if other): CORS Station
Find type: Coordinates and/or to-reach information from the NGS database (or Geocaching's copy of it) were used
Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): [Web Link]
NGS PID: DF5884 & DF5885
Local database's URL (optional): [Web Link]
Benchmark Agency (if other): Not listed
Special category (optional): Not listed
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