Research

Geodetic observations allow us to determine precise positions on Earth and the Earth’s orientation in space.

High accuracy of geodetic products is essential for many applications with far-reaching socio-economic implications, for example navigation of spacecraft, studying of plate tectonics, or monitoring of sea level rise. The amount of observational data generated by different space geodetic techniques has increased significantly in the last few years and will continue to do so for the future.

In particular, with several Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including the European system Galileo, and the new generation Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technology, VLBI Global Observing System (VGOS), becoming operational, traditional methods cannot fully exploit the data. To explote the wealth of data, the main research focus of our group is the application of machine learning in geodesy.