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The final result is to provide short-term and long-term forecasts for point position changing, i.e., the displacement or deformation of the surface they belong to. The motivation was the combination of two thoughts, the insertion of the forecasting concept in Geodesy as in the most scientific disciplines (e.g., Economics, Medicine) and the desire to know the future position of any point on a construction or on the earth\u2019s crustal. This methodology was designed to be accurate, stable and general for different kind of geodetic data. The basic procedure consists of the definition of the forecasting problem, the preliminary data analysis (data pre-processing), the definition of the most suitable ANN, its evaluation using the proper criteria and finally the production of forecasts. The methodology gives particular emphasis on the stages of the pre-processing and the evaluation. Additionally, the importance of the prediction intervals (PI) is emphasized. A case study, which includes geodetic data from the year 2003 to the year 2016\u2014namely X, Y, Z coordinates\u2014is implemented. The data were acquired by 1000 permanent Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations. During this case study, 2016 ANNs\u2014with different hyper-parameters\u2014are trained and tested for short-term forecasting and 2016 for long-term forecasting, for each of the GNSS stations. In addition, other conventional statistical forecasting methods are used for the same purpose using the same data set. Finally the most appropriate Non-linear Autoregressive Recurrent network (NAR) or Non-linear Autoregressive with eXogenous inputs (NARX) for the forecasting of 3D point position changing is presented and evaluated. 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