Analysis of ISAGEX results and their application in European geodesy

The first analysis of the ISAGEX observational results allows us to state that the experiment has been successful with respect to the established objectives in dynamical geodesy; thanks to a great number of laser observations, it will be possible to construct a dynamical model of the earth, the precision of which will be higher than that of the Standard Earth II. The importance of the ISAGEX observations for geometrical geodesy is examined with emphasis on European geodesy. In comparison to the results obtained previously by means of satellite methods, the significance of ISAGEX is great and allows one to include more stations into the existing system and to improve the internal precision of the network established by the GEOS and D1 programs.