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    • Scientist working on a GPS station top of a hill, New Zealand.
    Rights: GNS Science Limited, Lloyd Homer Published 21 July 2007 Size: 590 KB Referencing Hub media

    Tiny ground movements can be detected by using a network of continuously recording global positioning system (GPS) stations.

    A GPS station is also known as a GPS receiver.

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