MOBILE MAPPING APPLICATIONS BASED ON THE CYPRUS PERMANENT GPS NETWORK

This study describes the design and the installation of a pilot permanent GPS network in Cyprus, and evaluates its operation in order to produce the substructure for mobile mapping applications and any other type of relevant applications. The Continuously Reference Stations transmit their data via radio modems or GSM network and also have the capability to communicate with the users via internet browsers. Several applications using all the available information in static, kinematic and autonomous navigation mode are carried out. At first, three groups of applications for mobile mapping are identified and investigated: the first group concerns applications requiring low accuracies (up to 10m), the second group concerns applications requiring medium accuracies (up to 1m), and the final group concerns applications requiring high accuracies (up to a few cm). A detail report about the first experimental results, aspects and conclusions is drawn. Furthermore, the effectiveness of using only GPS code measurements in order to reduce the application costs is also investigated