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L P Fortes,

Associate Director of Geosciences Instituto Brasileiro

de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

fortes@ibge.gov.br

E Lauría,

Head, Geodesy Division, Instituto Geográfi co

Militar (IGM), Buenos Aires, Argentina

C Brunini,

Professor Universidad Nacional de La Plata

(UNLP), La Plata, Argentina

W Amaya,

Instituto Geográfico y Catastro Nacional (IGCN),

San Salvador, El Salvador

L Sánchez,

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut

(DGFI), München, Germany

H Drewes,

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut

(DGFI), München, Germany

W Seemüller,

Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut

(DGFI), München, Germany

Reprinted with permission. This paper first appeared in Volume (Festschrift) dedicated to Prof.-Dr.-Ing.h.c. Günter Seeber on the occasion of his 65th birthday and his retirement. Scientific work of the field Geodesy and Geoinformatic of the University of Hanover, Vol. 258, pp. 59-70, 2006.