Uploaded August 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How do you measure sinking land and rising seas at the same time? Randy Osborne of Louisiana State University and Tim Osborn of NOAA's Office of Coastal Survey explain how a constellation of global positioning system (GPS) satellites in space provides a stable platform for measuring both.
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How do you measure sinking land and rising seas at the same time? Randy Osborne of Louisiana State University and Tim Osborn of NOAA's Office of Coastal Survey explain how a constellation of global positioning system (GPS) satellites in space provides a stable platform for measuring both.
Video produced by the Climate.gov team in cooperation with climate and Earth scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies and institutions. Any opinions voiced by people in these videos are their own; they are not official NOAA statements or opinions. Unless specifically stated otherwise, Climate.gov video productions can be freely republished or re-purposed by others.
