THE ICELAND 1986 GPS GEODETIC SURVEY - TECTONIC GOALS AND DATA-PROCESSING RESULTS

The 1986 GPS survey of Iceland aimed to: (1) establish geodetic contro l in the South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ), to study destructive earth quakes there, (2) measure a country-wide network to form the basis of a new first order national network. 51 points were surveyed, with 20-3 0 km spacings within the SISZ and 100 km spacings elsewhere. The data were processed using the Bernese GPS software Version 3. Analysis was difficult due to poor satellite geometry and short-period ionospheric variations. However, an ambiguity-fixed, ionosphere-free solution gave accuracies of 1-2 cm in the horizontal and 2-3 cm in the vertical for the SISZ network and an ambiguity-free, ionosphere-free solution yiel ded accuracies of about 5 cm for the country-wide network, An ionosphe re-free solution for the total survey with ambiguities fixed for the S ISZ network only gave marginal additional improvements over the two se parate solutions. GPS surveying has continued annually in Iceland with measurements in South Iceland in 1989 and 1992 (Hackman 1991; Sigmund sson 1992) and in North Iceland in 1987, 1990 and 1992 (Jahn et al. 19 92; Foulger et al. 1992).