The CRCSI Positioning Program and Australia’s National Positioning Infrastructure (NPI) plan have the objective to provide real-time, centimetre-level positioning services anywhere, anytime, with the highest possible accuracy and integrity to meet the user requirements.
The majority of the NPI users get height information from satellite navigation systems like GPS. These heights are referenced to a simplified mathematical representation of the Earth known as the ellipsoid. For most people, heights above a surface like Mean Sea Level (MSL) are more practical than ellipsoid heights. To convert between the ellipsoid and MSL a geoid model is often used.
AUSGeoid2020 will be the latest geoid model for use in Australia to convert between ellipsoid heights and the Australian Height Datum (based on MSL). AUSGeoid2020 is designed for use with the new national datum, GDA2020 and for the first time, the AUSGeoid2020 model will also provide an uncertainty value.
Led by Geoscience Australia, this project is supported by Curtin University, Spatial Services (NSW), Landgate (WA) and Land Information New Zealand.
Mr Nick Brown
Prof Will Featherstone
Mr Jack McCubbine
Dr Sten Claessens