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From: Pierre.Uhrich@obspm.fr
Subject: Response to call for participation in an IGS/BIPM pilot project
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Dear Colleagues,

Please find hereafter the answer of the BNM-LPTF to the call for participation 
in an IGS/BIPM pilot project.

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Response to CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in an

	IGS/BIPM PILOT PROJECT TO STUDY ACCURATE TIME AND FREQUENCY
		COMPARISONS USING GPS PHASE AND CODE MEASUREMENTS

Agency:		BNM-LPTF
		Observatoire de Paris
		61 avenue de l'Observatoire
		F-75014 PARIS

Contact persons:	Dr Pierre UHRICH, Dr Francois TARIS
			Phone: 	(33) 01.40.51.22.16
			Fax:	(33) 01.43.25.55.42

E-mail addresses:	pierre.uhrich@obspm.fr
			francois.taris@obspm.Fr

Areas of participation:
	1) Deployment of GPS receivers:		Yes
	2) GPS data analysis:			Yes
	3) Analysis of instrumental delays:	Yes
	4) Time and frequency comparisons:	Yes

Limitations on participation:
	The BNM-LPTF does not possess a software for global geodetic processing 	
	of GPS data.

Comments or suggestions:
	1) For time and frequency applications, the BNM-LPTF finds that there is 
a need for more details about the atomic clocks used as local oscillators in the 
IGS stations. This request concerns for example:
	- Is it a free running oscillator or a frequency steered standard ?
	- Any information about the short and middle (< 2 d) term stability ?
	- Is the local frequency standard the only reference for GPS data 
collection, or is it the local oscillator of the GPS receiver steered on the 
local frequency standard ?
	2) The BNM-LPTF is also seequing informations about potential on-board 
space GPS receivers data processing.

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