Terrestrial reference systems and frames

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IERS Technical Note
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Terrestrial Reference Systems and their realizations. A Terrestrial Reference System (TRS) is a spatial reference system co-rotating with the Earth in its diurnal motion in space. In such a system, positions of points attached to the solid surface of the Earth have coordinates which undergo only small variations with time, due to geophysical e ects (tectonic or tidal deformations). In the physical model adopted in astrogeodesy, a TRS is modeled as a reference trihedron close to the Earth and co-rotating with it. In the Newtonian framework, the physical space is considered as a Euclidean ane space of dimension 3.

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