| Abstract: | This paper presents a multi-antenna GPS based system developed for localcontinuous deformation monitoring. Due to a large number of points that needs to be monitored,the standard approaches of using permanent GPS receiver arrays will cause high cost. Iteventually becomes the limiting factor for large-scale use of GPS in these application areas.Multi-antenna GPS system allows a number of GPS antennas to be linked to one GPS receiverby a specially designed electronic component, i.e. the so-called GPS multi-antenna switch(GMS), The receiver takes data sequentially from each of the antennas attached to thereceiver. A distinctive advantage of the approach is that one GPS receiver can be used tomonitor more than one point. The cost per monitored point (i. e. the expenses of hardware)istherefore significantly reduced. |
