INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND GEOSCIENCES, cilt.5, sa.1, ss.49-59, 2020 (ESCI)
Geodetic Networks designed as Deformation Networks or Continuous Networks are observed in different epochs/sessions and evaluated as a function of time. Those can be design as global GNSS networks for aim monitoring active tectonic movements or as regional densification geodetic and deformation networks for monitoring local earthquakes and surface movements. The areas covered geodetic networks are assumed as any surface on ellipsoid or sphere. Characteristics of surfaces are analyzed with Geometric Strain Models using deformation data on surface points. In this case, effect rates on geodetic network area are determined from local surface movements or regional active earthquakes and interpreted as experimental. On the other hand, undetermined outliers by model hypothesis test affect coordinate-unknowns separately. Outliers cause deformations in certain magnitude on networks points. Therefore, network points strain in different rates and directions. Query of maximum affects caused by these strain rates is a referenced reliability method called "Robustness Analysis in Geodetic Networks". Mentioned strain rates are modelled by various estimation methods. Thus, deformation results could be interpreted together by the obtained strain components and deformation vector.