The IDS Contribution to the ITRF2020

<p>In the context of the realization of the next International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF2020), the International DORIS Service (IDS) is involved in the estimation of DORIS station positions/velocities as well as Earth orientation parameters from DORIS data. Thus, the 4 IDS Analysis Centers  have re-analyzed all the DORIS observations from the fifteen DORIS satellites from January 1993 to December 2020.0.</p><p>The primary objective of this study is to analyze the DORIS contribution to ITRF2020 in terms of (1) geocenter and scale solutions; (2) station positions and week-to-week repeatability; (3) Earth orientation parameters; (4) a cumulative position and velocity solution.</p><p>Comparisons with the IDS contribution to ITRF2014 will address the benefits of the new antenna models, new models, including improved methods to handle non-conservative force model error on the Jason satellites, as well as the addition of data (compared to ITRF2014) from the latest DORIS missions (e.g. Jason-3, Sentinel-3A/B) in the IDS combination.</p>