Monitoring of offshore platform subsidence using permanent GPS stations

• Main Authors: Setan, Halim, Othman, Rusli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) 2006
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2865/1/HongKongPaperinGPSJournal.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2865/; http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/wang/jgps/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Offshore platforms undergo subsidence, especially due to production activities. The monitoring of such subsidence requires specialised technique (i.e. GPS) as the platforms are situated at sea (i.e. hundreds of kms from mainland). Unfortunately standard GPS processing procedure is unable to achieve...