VLBI observations allow us to measure, describe and understand where we are and how we move — both on Earth and relative to the cosmic background.

Navigation technology for precise positioning, environmental monitoring, and new space applications

The Earth is a complex system of a variety of interrelated subsystems. Observations and models from higher geodesy provide valuable contributions to the understanding of these subsystems and their interactions.

New missions not only generate valuable knowledge about the Earth and the Moon, but they also accelerate technological developments. The latter, in turn, enable the use of new concepts in geodesy.