Round Hill Point CORS Chasm Creek, Tasmania, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 07-Feb-17. Waypoint TP7570
Cache Details
Difficulty: | |
Terrain: | |
Type: | TrigPoint |
Container: | Other |
Coordinates: | S41° 3.908' E145° 57.710' (WGS 84) |
55G 412773E 5453493N (UTM) | |
Elevation: | 17 m |
Local Government Area: | Burnie |
Description
CORS (Continually Operating Reference Stations) collecting geodetic data from GNSS.
A CORS is a Continuously Operating Reference Station. CORS can take the place of a traditional base station used in differential GNSS positing. They can give an instant position to an accuracy of ±20 mm and are used in many industries including Precision Agriculture, Construction, Mining, Surveying and in Scientific Research.
Typically, the maximum distance between a base station and rover GNSS set up is around 10 - 15 km. This is due to the effect of the atmosphere on the GNSS signals as they travel from the satellite to a GNSS receiver.
With the establishment of a network of CORS, the distance between the base and the rover can be extended. The CORS can be spaced around 70 km apart and using at least 3 of these CORS, the atmospheric effects can be modelled and corrected for, yielding the ±20 mm position solution required by so many industries.
More info on CORS can be found here: CORS
Round Hill Point CORS
Official name of this Trig Station as per SmartNet Australia is RHPT.
Type: LEIAT504 antenna mounted on a concrete pillar via a stainless steel spigot thread
Services: Realtime & Rinex
Latitude: 41° 03' 54.48451" S (S41 03.908)
Longitude: 145° 57' 42.61940" E (E145 57.710)
Elevation: 25.956m (Ellipsoidal)
Source: SmartNet Aus
To log a find on the Geocaching Ausralia website, you will need to include a picture of the CORS, along with your GPS receiver and preferably yourself. You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the CORS.
Logs
Found with AlbyDangles on Day Two of the 'Bust' leg of our "Kempsey or Bust" tour.
Cheers, EPs
Out finding caches for the current games and this was one of them.
Many thanks Geocaching Australia for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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This is not what I was expecting to find when I walked up the hill.
Found on Saturday 01 December 2018 at 1631"
We are currently participating in the States of the Nation games running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018.
States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.
There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.
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