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CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Station)

Last Updated: September 27, 2011

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A network of GPS base stations coordinated by the National Geodetic Survey for the purpose of providing GPS reference data to allow end users to perform post-processed differential correction of GPS data collected with roving receivers. (A roving receiver is any mobile GPS receiver and data collector used for determining location while the user is in the field.) The GPS reference data used for post processing is typically acquired via direct download from the Internet.

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